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Hey guys, We all know the IBIS is awesome, by the way, Oly IBIS shooters should feel just as well adressed. I´ve been testing my GX85s IBIS for many weeks now, about three months. Testing, testing, testing, what it´s for and what it´s not for at all. Seeing the possibilities and limits. I did all this in prep. I put the cam on poles rigged to my waist or chest, swingin the cam like a bird. Well, I did this and everything else:) Would love to see your stuff, your favorite and your favorite quirky shots. In the end I rented a GH5 to do a short because of its perfect HD (no need for 4K with that:), ergonomy, crop and battery life. I think the twice as faster sensor read out helped well in doing beautiful one take action. So let´s see some IBIS action and some BTS infos and facts how it was done and performed.

Lemme know, when you´re around. We could hang out and shoot something nice and relaxed.

Yes, Andrew, it is impressive! I´ve been a fan of the potential of the Panny codec/color from G6 on. It´s been giving me exiting possiblities for color work. This weeked I shot my short on a GH5. I completely trusted that pixel perfect HD and its least color mode: the glourious 8bit 420 REC709 Natural profile with contrast at 0. This is a screenshot, quickly graded. Hope to get it through the edit and music and postprod quickly. If 8bit rec is already of such beauty, the other modes will be massive. By the way, I shot it 8bit and rec, because of older hard- and software infrastructure available at the moment:) Nothing more uncomfortable than having footage laying around unedited EDIT: We know about the advantages of contrast 0 in rec709 on the new Lumix cameras, sharpness and noise at -5 of course:)

@jcs, Your texts on technology are exellent and providing all the information and help for further research. On topics like health, in my opinion a different style of writing would be adequate: Eat well, do exercises and your camerwork will be better thought out and executed. That way camerawork will stay in focus. Otherwise your post would rather suggest your own thread.

Exellent observation, Fritz Pierre! Unfortunately out of likes now! Too many cool posts in this section!

Ed, I´ve been writing this on this forum a few times. Maybe it would be time to be quiete about it now for the sake of us lens lovers No you did not! Not fair, Gear Ac Syndrome is grabbing me!

Footage doesnt look anything C1,2,300 like. What´s this post have to do with the love for the arts? I don´t see that. Thread is dubious.

Another beautiful RAW vignette by Colby Moore:

@Cinegain that Pentacon lens is not a Soviet lens but from German Democratic Republic, just like the Zeiss Jena lenses are

I shot a short this weekend with it in 8bit HD, knowing with its pixel perfect HD and 100Mbit it will a massive bump in gradeability compared to the already awesome HD image and codec in the G6, G7 and G85, which was running somewhat around 28Mbitpersecond. 8bit Rec709 in Natural contrast at 0, noise+sharpness at -5, looks fantastic on the GH5, if graded with care. A 200mbit 10bit Intra HD Codec with Vlog and perfect HD is already heaven to me. I think I will indeed buy this true cinema camera. GH5 is massive!

Hey Matt, yeah that 28 f2.8 keeps surprising me. I always loved the look of it. I should do a test against my 20mm 1.7 with it. Hmm, gonna do it right now. Wait a minute:) Test result: the FD with a focal reducer is higher resolving in the centre at F2.8 than the 20mm at F2.0.

Good idea about making another one. But for this one I had a crew working just for meals and having an awesome time with one another.. The next thing would have to be a one man band again. I don´t know if I know that many people who enjoy doing sound for free:) Maybe GH5 cannot be in the challenge. Its image quality already in HD 420 is too tremendeous, C100 good. Okay, back to lens talk. Canon FD 100mm SSC F2.8. Awesome lens, compact, hefty enough in hand, massive image quality wide open. On S35 it´s a winner. Still looking for that awesome ultra wide for FD. Maybe the Tokina 17mm 3.5 is Canon FD good, @Matt Kieley?

Got a Lumix G7, hardly ever used it, because body feels kinda shallow. Funny that a G6 feels so much more satisfying in hand. Still got my G6. Fun camera, never disappointed. I feel I can trust it. Second nature to me now. Nice battery life, with two original and a cheap battery. GX85 is lovely, kinda to pretty to shoot with it. Great image quality and nice but tricky IBIS. Battery life in 4K is so lala. HD is not satisfying enough, almost good enough but really not. Easy to grade. Shot with a GH5 this weekend. Fantastic cam. HD quality is fantastic. Gradeablility in 8bit 420 is very good already, I´d say Canon C100 II good. The battle for best 8bit 420 would be hard to estimate a winner for.

I think you are right. Put them both on CineD with 0 contrast, -5 sharpness, 5 noise, -3 color. Best is to do a test of a face of a humble friend in daylight, tungsten, fluorescent with same lens.

@IronFilm, Hey man, aren´t you from New Zealand? Asking, because my mates and me met a cool director from NZ. He has a beard just like you. Are you in Berln right now?:) You and I talked before with eachother on here, about that kewl Sony F3. So don´t get scared by my Toshiro Mifune back and neck when I am asking you this question:) Cineama5D, I used to get them mixed up with EOSHD because of the Canon reference. But I was always looking for EOSHD, of course. It must have been about six years ago. So I should be forgiven, even more when only just looking for that cool EOSHD articles:) First provocation, than honey spilling. What a low life move, I should go to Cinema5D and apologize:)

Hey Glenn, yeah, rail free follow focus should give me some nice tactile feel. They come with reverse option for Nikon? The SLR Magic and my FDs drove me a bit nuts this weekend when filming and focusing different directions:) Btw Glenn, It´s my shortfilm I shot this weekend with a rented GH5 instead of my poor GX, which is a little pity, because it would have been so cool to have a legit shortfilm done with the GX85! But battery life and positon of batterydoor with card slots was not adequate. So that shortfilm might be allowed for our 8bit shortfilm challenge, since I shot in classy, sassy glorious 8bit 420? Or maybe not, because its 8bit 420 on roids:)

Some wedding stuff is well thought out. Some of them have a nice mix and balance of film grammar and are not only nicely laid out but also well executed. Of course one can find it to be Kitsch, because it has to be, just like dating movies. Well done eye candy. But too much candy starts to become a bad thing in the stomach. So you guys, stop watching strangers´ wedding videos. You are takin the bandwidth so I cannot watch them before I go to bed and dream. Brides will always look glam, which is a good as long as they don´t start to look alike and get mixed up I still don´t like the threads name. Deezid does great work and color work with the Lumix cams, so of course he can make it cinematic. Nobody questioned this. The GH5 in the right hands can be a cinema camera more than anything in the price range up to 6000 USD. LS300 does not have the IBIS nor the nice EVF and Display, nor 10bit.

Really lookin forward to this. I am a sucker for daily life vignettes. I don´t dig slomo for the heck of boredom nor speed ramps for the heck of... ahem, boredom. Or do they put that in their videos for any reason other than feeling bored? But this is the lens thread. So lens related, man, those FD lenses are razor sharp (meaning resolution here:), the 28mm f2.8 wide open, the 50 1.4 at F2, the 100mm 2.8 wide open. They deliver that full resolution of GH5s perfect 1080p. You can shoot them clean and nifty or with character- that 50 flares like a supernova with back light. I know it´s super common knowledge about the FDs. It was with the GH5 that I really got to see the image taking prowess of these FD lenses. I shot that combo this weekend for my short film. No need for me to get the Contax Zeiss ones, except that 28 Hollywood. When doing the GH5 handheldstyle, my FD 28mm started to get a slippery focus ring with my hands, which got sweaty due to my hard work with the camera. So its smallness and lightness are at the same time advantage and disadvantage for longer shooting times without follow focus. Anyone knows a housing mod for the 28 FD?

Well, that would be too much, watching 90min of wedding videos in a theater. The videos above are very romantic. But after a while I feel an urge that I want to hug someone myself so I have to leave the computer behind:) Like I said GH5 is a real movie camera. So title of this thread should be: The GH5 is a real movie camera. Oh, didn´t I just say that? Btw, I really like this one. I even wrote the filmer but never received an answer. The vimeo account doesn´t seem to get checked much:( For the educational purposes with reassuring effect, aaahem:), I must say, a very specific technique is used in the weddings above, among a number of aspects of visuality of course. I would call this approach the moving 2seconds photographs. It is very interesting to see what one can do with it, honoring the tools and craft. Have to rewatch Oskar and Ellie again. One of the best wedding videos I´ve seen. Despite the music though Of course, I don´t watch wedding videos too much or do I?

Jon, I don´t care what other dudes are doing, I want to see your footage showing off some jonpais 7.5mm glory!:)

I think its the kind of predictability of successfully and realiablilly reaching the desired effect of their efforts. It does not exlclude surprises and variety:) By the way, I enjoyed the video. It´s just with that technique any camera from Canon 550D on will do a good job. A DVX100 would do too, interlaced on interlaced displays would do a good job as well for the desired effect. Heck, the GH5 is a true cinema camera! I think it´s massive quality in almost every aspect. A big leap in quality. I shot my shortfilm with it this weekend, in REC 709, 1080p, 8bit and it´s still looking really impressive too my eyes. It´s a 10bit cinema beast and a C300 MK1 run and gun 1080p machine plus slo mo. All for 1800 USD with great IBIS and battery life and rolling shutter. To cameras for the price of one! And a great photo tool as well.

I find the title of this thread could be potentially misleading. Already with average micro/low budget production values it is easier than ever before to shoot cinematic images with this camera, the same would go for the G85. For the footage of flowers, I can tell that GH5 is able to capture images in a variety of lighting conditions, I would consider it as adequate test footage. The footage of the young woman above shows a blueprint for pleasing but also predictable framing and slomo pace, showing off the capabilities of a well liked specific muted look of an turkis gold color palette, as I would call it. A lot of this classic subject has been shot with the GH2 for testing the beautiful look of anamorphic. I would like a new thread gathering legit short films done with the GH5. There was an early GH4 video showing off a super clean digital look being some of the most cinematic footage to me done with a hybrid camera. Maybe I can find it again

Another time I have to agree with jonpais. That 12-60mm Leica glass for MFT has a very sharp look but not the beautiful cinephile pleasing flavor of beautiful mechanic glass. It rather seems a lens for corporate stuff. Tested it shortly today and was wondering why it was so hard to make footage look cinastiqueeeelicious! In a controlled and lit enviroment I bet I can put out a very unique super futuristic look. A cool, possibly brutal, maybe scifi but so to call very digital look in its own right.

@Alfonso Rodriguez Poncho, what profile did you record it with? 8 or 10bit? cheers

Ed, you can try a Kodak RFS 2035 or 3570. They are 2000 dpi only but solid built and fast and super fun to play with. Scan some Kodak slides with that and it´s the faithful way to get them analogue treasures into the digital format:) Use it with Vuescan. It´s an awesome piece of scanning software. DP1X is very different from the DP Merrill beasts though:) Ed, you can try a Kodak RFS 2035 or 3570. They are 2000 dpi only but solid built and fast and super fun to play with. Scan some Kodak slides with that and it´s the faithful way to get them analogue treasures into the digital format:) Use it with Vuescan. It´s an awesome piece of scanning software. DP1X is very different from the DP Merrill beasts though:) Ed, you can try a Kodak RFS 2035 or 3570. They are 2000 dpi only but solid built and fast and super fun to play with. Scan some Kodak slides with that and it´s the faithful way to get them analogue treasures into the digital format:) Use it with Vuescan. It´s an awesome piece of scanning software. DP1X is very different from the DP Merrill beasts though:)