jase

According to Andrew's review this works, yes.

10 minutes ago, Mattias Burling said:

Second one isn't the gx85 and the 5D is not included.

Which means the last one is the GX85?

Just now, tweak said:

What would the title be though? - "Blind Dancing"?

"One for all and all for one"

I would love the second one to be the GX85.

The third one has these warmer colors which looks familiar to your 5D MK3 raw footage, so thats my guess.

40 minutes ago, mercer said:

This kid is hitting refresh every 5 seconds 

He is definitely not the only one... count me in. It would be freaking awesome if we could turn this into a collaboration film project, something like a movie produced by EOSHD members. Really, this could be a hit.

Based on your guys highly valuable comments, here is another series. This time i compared STD -5/-5/-5/-5 with STD -5/-5/-5/0 to see how the image looks like with a "neutral" saturation.

Lets start with the OOC shots (4K 25p):

STD -5/-5/-5/-5

STD -5/-5/-5/0

And here is my grade:

STD -5/-5/-5/-5

STD -5/-5/-5/0

My conclusions: I had to lower the saturation by 25% for STD -5/-5/-5/0 to avoid turning my skin orange. After that, both shots look pretty similar. The -5/-5/-5/-5 is a tad darker and the -5/-5/-5/0 offers more detail in the shadows, yet has a bit more noise (although not unpleasing). If wanted i can supply the video files as well.

1 hour ago, mercer said:

Ahh the Internet... Sarcasm and humor sometimes does not translate well. I was joking around with that comment... Unsure if you were with your reply?

Gotcha, I didnt get it. Apologies :/

4 minutes ago, mercer said:

Is this your way of saying that Phillip Bloom is involved in this alleged scam?

things are going totally wrong here.. No way that this was his intension!

Wow, that facebook post left me speechless.

@Kamil Sarnowski: if i compare my skin right now with your shots, your first one is most accurate, it keeps a good balance between color and saturation.

This is my quick grade. It might be a tad on the darkside, but sun was already quite low, shining on me from the side angle.

after running around with the GX80 and the voigtländer 25, i have collected so much material i will be busy with editing it for weeks  In my opinion, the GX80 is not too small for it, at least for me. The more I shoot with this combo, the less I get why I ever abandoned it...

Std -5/-5/-5/-5 with WB cloudy preset (A3G3) & Tiffen Ultra Contrast. ooc.

1 hour ago, John Matthews said:

Thanks for the credit, but I haven't been using "cloudy" WB. I use Sunny instead.  I've also been doing more tests with the A3G3.

Ouch, my bad.. Still liking cloudy though, gives a tad more warmth

1 minute ago, Michael Coffee said:

Hey Jase - what lens and cam are those photos.. GX85 with the kit 12-32?

This time it is the Panasonic 20mm paired with the obvious tiffen ultra contrast filter.

Kudos to @Inazuma for suggesting the wb adjustment with A3G3 and to @John Matthews for using cloudy and tungsten preset - really works nice for run&gun since it is easy and good!

all still ooc since i am not home yet.

Is there any was to have AF and MF at the same time other than switching to MF mode and set the AE/AF lock button to "AF-ON"? Something like S-AF/MF on olympus cams?

i would like to use spot AF but this not possible with the above mentioned lock button setup..

Not really @Inazuma. I had the Oly 12mm 2.0 and as soon as you use the clutch focus, the lens will "jump" as soon as you get to one of the distance markers.. at least this lens is even worse for a smooth focus pull.

Yes, i meant EF-mount compatible. As far as i know there is no any other mount for which an AF-compatible focal reducer or adapter exists(?)

I know that AF is not comparable to native lenses nor that dual IS works, but i just hate fly by wire lenses, i have never found one that gave me the ability to smoothly do a focus pull as on a manual lens (or on a canon ef lens). Which native m43 lenses have a good manual focus feel according to your opinion?

The only way to get a AF lens that is NOT fly-by-wire on the GX80 would be a Canon EF lens with a focal reducer, that has electronical contacts like the metabones speed booster, right?

There is no native m43 lens that is not fly-by-wire and there is no other system with AF lenses that can be adapted on m43, is there?

the image is just spellbinding. wow.

Nice write-up. To be honest, I actually quite like the blown out window arround 0:30 - looks natural to me.

42 minutes ago, John Matthews said:

I'm going to make a few more comments on settings. I did some testing and confirmed that Natural (-5,-5,-5,-5) gave best results in terms of noise in the blue and red channels. Also, I did a test for WB(A3,G3)- this makes sense to pull away from blue because the blue channel seemed to fall below 0%, green did pop up a little too much though and I might try A3,G2 instead. Finally, I'll be shooting with zebras set at 100% rather than 105% due to banding in the blue channel when clear sky is present. I think the top 5% has very little latitude and that's why banding was present. I've been slapping filmconvert (KD P400 Ptra, grain at 0) and it seems like a stellar image. For audio, I have my Zoom H1 with a cheap omnidirectional lapel mic with a small cord that I place next to the subject. So far, so good.

Good to know, will try this as well. I second your findings about KD P400 Ptra including grain at 0 - thats exactly the setting I used for the shots i showed one page before.

Anyone ever used the Canon EF 28 1.8? I know it gets kinda bad reviews and there is the sigma 30 1.4, but the canon has the much shorter MFD. I was wondering whether the softness of this lens might not work in favor for us video guys.

5 hours ago, Inazuma said:

Jase, really nice shots as aways. I think the -5 everything works well for you. Do you use idynamic or change the highlight curve at all?

Nope, dont use them at all, but i will give your WB settings a try!

18 minutes ago, DevonChris said:

@jase it would be interesting for you to compare it to Natural -5,-5,-5,-5 but my bettting is that you won't notice much difference.

Do you colour correct and do any grading before using FilmConvert or do you just use the OOC images with FilmConvert?

I bought a Voigt 25mm 0.95 a couple of weeks ago and it is now my go to lens for video and photography. The more I use it, the better it becomes

Will do a comparison this weekend and show you the results. Those shots are not OOC; i applied filmconvert and then adjusted the lows and highs as well as correcting for skin tones, although i am not 100% satisfied with the first shot of my brother... it was just a quick grade which still needs a bit of tweaking.

awesome you joined the voigtländer club