johnnymossville

Holy Cow Andrew I think we have a winner! While I'd like the price to be even a bit lower, this looks like the perfect camera for carrying around, street photography, and capturing some great video as well.

F1.8 lens!!!! Brilliant!

Thanks for the review.

I'm in the same situation. I'm leaning towards the 17.5 for it's clickless aperture ring. a 17.5mm seems ideal, especially in tighter/indoor/dimly lit situations.

Since we are posting (GH2 shot) music videos, here's another great looking one.

http://vimeo.com/40089207

[b]Not 100% this is GH2.[/b]

Those are really nice.  I like the retro look of the welterwerk one.

Here's one I heard about last week that's really well done.  On a GH2 as well.

http://vimeo.com/44108567

I look at it this way. If you look at car companies it would be impossible to find a car that you couldn't "hack" into a much better performing car if you know what you are doing.  How many people actually do this.  I like to modify my cars a bit for fun but is it necessary?  nope.  Same goes for the GH2.

Now, Panasonic probably could have opened up it's camera to customization instead of making Vitaly go through the trouble of hacking it,  but then it would have opened them up to all kinds of trouble because you really need fast sd cards to handle the high bitrates it's capable of,  just like you need to be a good driver, need good brakes, and good tires to handle all the power a Mustang GT is capable of when "hacked"

I'm not one to dis companies for their "Greedy" capitalism, because they need to survive first so they can continue to provide us with product.  If we ended up with just Canon left in the dslr video world, what would we be looking at?  hmmm?

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Except youre going to have to spend that extra money on 4/3s lenses.
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Yeah I have a few, but I'm also having a great time buying vintage lenses that have some great looks as well.  Why buy new when I can help save the planet by recycling someone else's throwaways. ;-)

Vintage Canon FD lenses look beautiful on the GH2.

markm,  I wouldn't be quite so hard on Panasonic.  What they have done in an $800 Camera that others couldn't do with a $2500 camera is impressive.  Hacked or Not Hacked.  The lenses, sd cards, batteries, tripod, slider and lights I've purchased with the $1700 left over by not buying a 5DMII had to come from somewhere.

A small bump in DR, a bit better in low-light, and some color profile tweaking, including a flat image setting and I'd be happy.  Color like the OM-D has would be nice and seems very likely.    If they did nothing else other than this, and continued with the GH2's already great capabilities I'd buy one.  Heck I'm buying one no matter what anyway.

Now, to be wishful,

- I'd like a high bitrate setting from the factory.
- 120fps at 720p would be reason enough for some purchases of this already great line of cameras.
- A more rugged design, unlike a mini dslr but more like the lovechild of a Panasonic and a RED.
- Remote control over WI-FI using Android and iPhone, including some sort of follow focus control/Time Lapse settings, etc,...
- That digital level like they have in the GX1 is kinda nice. I'd like that.
- in-Camera Stabilization.  That way my old prime lenses could benefit from it.

You should also pick up an FD 24mm F/2.8.  It's not the fastest lens out there but it's very sharp, fairly wide and cheap.

The only two I wouldn't use are D and G.  G is probably the Canon, D the iPhone.  The rest look great.

I'm not sure if it's just me, but the GH2 looks to have pulled out more shadow detail than the 5DMIII in your test (The Trees at 1:10 for example).  Was the color profile set as flat as it could be on the 5DMIII?  I'm going to have to start using 5DtoRGB it seems. 

Also, I'm not sure sharpening is the way to go after seeing your 400% blowup next to unsharped 5DMIII.

Nice test Andrew.

I know it's infuriating, but at least it's just the Emmy. Imagine handing a Nobel Peace Prize to someone who never actually accomplished anything. Oh wait, scratch that,...

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Am I missing something, or this test completely confounded by varying effectiveness of the individual teams' post production performance?
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My understanding is that they showed two versions.  One without post production, and one version after they got a chance to grade the footage to their liking.  Could be wrong about this though.

Any info on what lenses were used for the tests.

Also, I read somewhere, maybe on personal-view.com, that one of the cinematographers in the group of shooters chose the GH2 as his favorite look of the bunch.  It would be interesting to hear his reasoning for this.  If cost is an important issue (as it was for me) when starting a rig the choice becomes much easier doesn't it?

I would have preferred he shoot something small in 48fps first than use something as potentially epic as The Hobbit as a guinea pig.

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No sheep in this comparison video.
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So what I see is,.... Mark III, VERY good low light camera, but blurry image pretty much everywhere. 

Katon might think it looks more harsh and videoey,  but I think he's mistaking harshness for clarity, and videoey for clarity.  The old "Filmic" argument only holds water if you mean filmic as being slightly blurry.  As far as color reproduction goes, it's all opinion.  Some (Me Included) love the color the 5D puts out, but then taken on it's own, the GH2 looks fantastic as well.  Color isn't limiting factor for either camera. They're just different.

Now if you want soft, do as Andrew said and add a gaussian blur to your GH2 Footage so it makes GH2 footage look 5D blurry.