Fly-Catchers

I am currently working on some concert footage I took in London last year. It was on my unhacked GH2 HBR 25p. Using my Canon 50mm lens set to F3.5/4. The ISO was 400 and I was using the Ex Tele mode.
During the darker moments of the concert and in the shadows there is quite a bit of noise as expected. For my first attempt I used brightness/contrast & Shadow/highlight settings in PE 10 NLE. I them applied Neat Video. As I had a fixed camera position there is only one area that appears suitable for the software to use and after applying it I also added a second adjustment to the same area when the lighting increased. This added a bit to the profile but did not allow to fill in all the boxes on the Neat Video profile. I used the default settings. Overall the result is quite good but there is still a fair bit of noise movement in the darker areas. On a second attempt I also added the default Gamma correction to the mix which lightened the image quite a bit and also changed the Temporal filter radius to 2. However overall this increased the noisy area movement still further. I will be uploading my first attempt shortly. I am still using the demo version of Neat Video but as luck would have it the area it covers shows the most important part of the video for assessment.


Are the adjustments I am using in PE brightness/contrast & Shadow/highlight and perhaps Gamma Correction the right ones to use? Any tips as to give the best base for Neat Video to work with?
 
http://www.eoshd.com/comments/topic/2195-laurie-anderson-dirt-day-concert-clip-testing-neat-video/


cheers!

Yes it is single coated.

Leica made the Thamber between 1934 & 1940. It was designed to give a soft focus image at certain apertures for portrait work. The middle section of the lens when the lens is stopped down gives a sharp image. As you open up the lens you get the soft section from F2.2 to F6.3. The centre spot filter they made blocks out this sharp centre of the lens giving you an even greater softness. It was my Dad's favorite lens of all time!

Got myself a leica M adapter a few days back. Here are a few screenshots of a quick test.

[img]http://www.eoshd.com/comments/uploads/inline/20471/5012e8da988d2_canon50mm.jpg[/img]
Canon 50mm F1.2


[img]http://www.eoshd.com/comments/uploads/inline/20471/5012e96041f0a_canon50mmcu.jpg[/img]

Canon 50mm F1.2 EX.TELE mode


[img]http://www.eoshd.com/comments/uploads/inline/20471/5012e9e509d80_leica35mm.jpg[/img]

Leica Summaron 35mm


[img]http://www.eoshd.com/comments/uploads/inline/20471/5012ea960ad15_leica35mmcu.jpg[/img]

Leica Summaron 35mm EX.TELE mode


[img]http://www.eoshd.com/comments/uploads/inline/20471/5012eadaf11b2_leica50mm.jpg[/img]
Leica Summicron 50mm


[img]http://www.eoshd.com/comments/uploads/inline/20471/5012eb19b831e_leica50mmcu.jpg[/img]

Leica Summicron 50mm EX.TELE mode


[img]http://www.eoshd.com/comments/uploads/inline/20471/5012eb5c8246b_thamber.jpg[/img]
Leica Thamber 90mm @ F22


[img]http://www.eoshd.com/comments/uploads/inline/20471/5012ebc2b717a_thambersoft.jpg[/img]

Leica Thamber 90mm @ F2.2 without spot filter.


[img]http://www.eoshd.com/comments/uploads/inline/20471/5012ec3668478_thambersoftcu.jpg[/img]
Leica Thamber 90mm @ F2.2 without spot filter. EX.TELE mode


[img]http://www.eoshd.com/comments/uploads/inline/20471/5012ec70b229a_thambersoftcufilter.jpg[/img]

Leica Thamber 90mm F2.3 with spot filter. EX.TELE mode

None of the lens are in the best of condition and particulary the Leica 50mm is very fogged inside the lens. I made a spot filter for the Thamber as the original was missing when my Dad got the lens years ago.

bill

Dug out my Dads old Canon 50mm F1.2 lens which he used many years ago on his Canon 7s rangefinder camera. I find that it delivers a nice "warm" feel to the videos. For best quality view via Vimeo direct.. 
 
 
https://vimeo.com/59352490
 
 
 

Short film shot in my garden last summer where I grow a range of American Sarracenia pitcher plants. Using GH2 with 14- 140mm kit lens &  25mm f0.95 voigtlander lens. For best image view via vimeo site. 
 
https://vimeo.com/59811418

Trying out my Canon 50mm f1.2 rangefinder lens on my GH2 in Ex Tele Conv mode. Also using Neat Video for the first time and first attempt at synchronising audio in PP. For best results in HD view via vimeo site.
 
 
https://vimeo.com/60777508
 

A short piece shot at a very successful installation at the Barbican Centre, London. It gave me the change to test out the waterproof body of my GH2- err wait a minute!!
For best HD results view via the Vimeo site.

https://vimeo.com/62440712

Having uploaded a few of my videos to the free version of Vimeo they still lose far more than I see in other peoples uploads. And thats including the free version of Vimeo as well.
 
If I use the Vimeo HD preset on PE 10 it gives me H264  1280 x 720 29.97 frame rate NTCS. When I go into advance and change it to PAL 25fps it changes the frame size to 720 x 576!! Why should that be?
 
Currently I am using my own profile of H264 1280 x 720 25fps PAL. In all cases the pixel aspect ratio is square pixels.
 
When saved and viewed on my PC it looks and sounds fine. Once uploaded to vimeo and further compressed you get brief patches of blocky pixels in the picture, and in my latest upload a jerky feel to any rotating motion. Also there is a brief audio glitch out of the blue as well! I understand that going to the paid version of Vimeo would give better results but I have certainly seen some excellent results of GH2 footage using the free account. Any tips on how to get the best out of the footage?
 
I have just added the latest small video to the screening room. This was mainly shot to test out a 50mm f1.2 rangefinder Canon lens on the GH2.    

A short trip along the seafront in Deal Kent UK, enjoying a rare spell of snow. Short lived now gone!
Original footage far sharper than the vimeo results suggest! :( For HD viewing view via vimeo site of course.
GH2 & 14- 140mm kit lens.
 
 
 
  https://vimeo.com/58095885