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'Apocalypse Now' Experimental Series 1 Thread - BOOM, Intravenus - cbrandin/driftwood AN Soft/Cinema
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  • I shot a fuckin wedding with Nebula 6 and it looks great. I posted a frame a while back.

  • I was amaized by the look of Nebula so I dared to film a wedding with this setting. The image was quite beautiful (creamy, the colors more pleasant), but I miss a little the sharpness. So I did it again. I work alone, I shoot only with one GH2. For this clip it was lumix 14mm. Enjoy the romanian folklore!...

  • @Daspenberg I heard someone say the gamma shift doesn't occur if you're using a monitor. I haven't tried it myself, but it may be worth a try. The preproduction units of the GH3 also appear to have the gamma shift, by the way...

  • @daspenberg I wouldn't hold your breath when it comes to accurate colour rendition. You can always just shoot a few seconds to see how its going to look on the viewfinder, then tweak, reshoot and then delete your test shots. As for adding an extra step to the workflow, I think most of us colour correct our footage anyway so its not actually adding a step as removing the green hue gets absorbed in the normal CC steps. If you don't want to do any colour correction work at all and go straight to editing then fair enough, it just means shooting a lot of test footage at different settings/conditions until you know exactly how the camera is going to perform. The GH2 is no different to any other camera really in this regard. The sudden difference when you press record is because the camera monitors in full range and then records in broadcast range. Turn the histogram on and watch how it changes when you press record.

  • The first attempt at something other than bmx or skateboarding. AN drewnet soft

  • @artiswar, thanks for the reply. I think this is one of the main reasons i'll be getting a gh3, hopefully they fixed this. It is easy to fix in post, but that adds another step to the workflow. There's such a big shift between what you see on the viewfinder before and after you hit record that I can never manually set the color balance correctly while shooting. This also adds time while you're shooting, so sometimes I just can't do it. Anyone have any other workarounds?

  • @fomalhaut3 And it would be interesting to know your settings like Cinema 24H or HBR and Smooth or whatever...

  • @fomalhaut3 Could you show us some screengrabs of the artifacts you got with Nebula 6 ? In a bit of a testing/comparison phase myself at the moment and would be interested to see. Also was this with Original, Soft, or Sharp2 ?

  • got a lot of trubles with nebula 6 shooting in a garden with a lot of leaves and a bit of wind...a lot of artifacts ..shot with 14-140 and a sandisk 64gb 95MB/s also the playback doesn't work, have to turn off and on the camera to watch footage but for the rest i love AN! @driftwood thanks for your great work

  • @Daspenberg - It looks like your suffering from the usual ugly green spike that the GH2 is unfortunately susceptible to. Simply shifting the offset of the images towards a more magenta hue will remedy that in post. In camera, however, you can use the manual white balance and adjust the hue slightly. Try picking up some color charts for shoots.

  • Just curious you guys, what do you do for color temperature? I haven't figured out a good system yet. On other cameras I usually dial in either 3200 or 5500, or I just go by what looks good by eye. I've found out that I can't trust my eye on the GH2 monitor, and everything else usually gives me a greenish / yellowish tint. I attached a few screen shots, I think I had it up to 6000 to make it a little warmer, but it has this cast I don't really like. These are with BOOM with a voigtlander 25mm.

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  • //edit, oeps sorry, wrong topic...

  • @rajamalik: thats what i hope, too. A sweet cinematic allround intra setting that will remain on my gh2 for the future. Thanks for all your efforts driftwood, i am really curious if it will be the same with the GH3. Sometimes waiting for a new setting here feels like being a child again on christmas, i would terribly miss that!!

  • @driftwood from your words we could easily figure out that gh2's maximum usability hacks are going to be released. off course there wont be much of a hack after this time while GH3 is on its way. Thank you so much sir.

  • Now Boom in a test. Looks promising, at least 24p and 25p do good job. Need still more testing before use it in real life situation.

  • @Nameless @APA @exilenorth Superb!

    @APA Hell of a teaser mate!

  • GH3 = Awesome. :( Sad face for my GH2

  • @Mirrorkisser thanks. Was looking for sunshine but a big bad cloud came up and never went away :(

  • @Bonzai Thanks for taking time to watch the process and thanks for the kind comments.

  • Some great work chaps @Nameless @APA @exilenorth - Well done.

  • Art in Fact is not There...... Driftwood's Boom: Shot 24mm Canon Lens , Iso 160, SS @ 50 , App 5.8 , Cinema 24P , Vib 0 0 2 0 SD is a cheap PNY Pro Elite, Class 10, 32 gig , Heavy shadows, afternoon light. Contrast. This is a straight MTS file. @Vitaliy,@Driftwood,@cbrandin and the rest Thanks.Your Brilliant. Mind the chatter of Vimeo crap compression.

  • @driftwood Shot of the ocean looks great. Stunning framing on that. Wish I could enlarge, but when I click on stills in personal-view, sometimes they expand, sometimes they don't. Great frame up. I'm usually bored with typical film shots of ocean, but you've got some good energy here. Well done.

    Edit: Actually got it to open. Great detail. Not sure if it's just my eyes, but is dynamic range here with Boom actually better than normal? Looks great to me. Thanks for posting.

  • Shot with "444 Soft"

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