Stanley

I'm just envious !! Look forward to your Best Of 2017. Great work!!  

On 1/1/2017 at 6:14 AM, OliKMIA said:

Hi Guys,

Happy new years to all of you. Long life to EOSHD and I'm looking forward to another round of heated discussions with complete strangers in 2017

Here is my best of 2016

 

Please don't tell me you did that on your own....please!!

6 hours ago, freeman said:

PS stanley you were asking how the gh4 and 2 cut together, they did well provided there was enough light. In low light the 2 looked a lot softer and got grainy faster. 

Cheers mate, that's good news thanks. I reckon I'll look at GH3/4, and most of my shooting is done in good light. 

8 hours ago, kidzrevil said:

why don't you just get a gh3 if all you need is good 1080 ?

I think that could be the way to go, it's gonna give me weather sealing, headphones, and the availability of a good aftermarket eyepiece / cup which I need. Or maybe a GH4 as I think they'll be getting cheaper very soon. Cheers.

4 hours ago, freeman said:

Been using the GH4 for 2 years of freelance now, gh2 for one before that. I'm working as a 1 man crew, often run and gun is how I shoot. In terms of what the gh4 makes "easy", I'd say:

1. Battery. Solid, with a couple backups you are so covered in terms of power its just not as issue anymore. 

2. Control access. Now I know I am used to it but I have found the gh4 (and the gh2 when I use it) to be easy to manipulate. ISO and white balance are easy to get at with their own buttons. At the start of every shoot I create my c1 and c2 profiles. Example: I was filming in a motorcycle shop. I knew I wanted slo-mo for various things (cutting, grinding, power hammer). First thing I do in the shop is check WB, set my exposure on my c1 profile. I then go into the menu and choose the variable frame rate option, set it to the desired rate, compensate for the higher shutter, and set that to c2. Now I can flick between the two settings and never dive in a menu. Moto builder starts to grind something, c2, get the slo-mo shot. c1 for my real time wide. It's quick. This is something any cam with custom profiles can do, for me it's how I use the gh4's variable frame rate. In-camera slo-mo whenever you want it is AWESOME.

Other than that it's mostly up to how you shoot as to what will be easy. The gh4 handles well, it's a good size, its easy to manipulate the controls. The body has a mic input and an audio out so you can monitor what it's getting, which is also great. Lately I've been using a zoom h1 as a plant mic or with a lav on someone in combination with a shotgun on the cam. It's light, small.. the kit packs up nice. I don't know if the GH4 is "weather sealed". I have shot in the rain with it. I did everything I possibly could to keep it dry, but I noticed no problems. I've enjoyed this little cam a lot. I use a sigma 18-35 and a nikon 50 1.4 on a speed booster 90% of the time. Highly recommend a speed booster w/ m43. An extra stop of light is just great to have and helps stretch the iso limit. So yeah, this little tank has served me well!

Trying not to go too off topic, but how did the GH2 24 fps1080p, hold up against GH4 1080p. To my eyes (via youtube) the GH3 1080p didn't seem to be much of an improvement ( if any ).

You probably didn't try it, but curious to know what GH4 720p is like. Patched up GH2 720p is still punching above its weight I reckon. Cheers.

@Kidzrevil...Hey mate is there a chance at some stage you might be able to record some 24 fps 1080p, and maybe some 60/50 fps, and give your opinion regarding quality please.

2 hours ago, Davey said:

I average $1 per 1000 views and have yet to earn $250 in two years lol. It is good to be monetised, though, just in case you film something extraordinary that gets a few hundred million views in a short time whereby advertisers fall over themselves to pay the top rate for a few months.

My biggest gripe are the spammy companies offering to license your video and offer you 60% - how generous of them.

To be a top earner on YouTube you generally have to appeal to the lowest common denominator; which is to have wild hair, a whacky disposition, be stunningly good looking, have a knack for tapping into the brains of the near dead, master the art of false humility and get people to feel sorry for you, be a big fat show off or any combination of those listed. There are many seriously talented folk on YouTube who get nowhere in terms of hitting a million subscribers (or even a thousand in many cases) but then that is not why they are there in the first place.

Philip Bloom has around 125,000 subscribers

Casey Neistat has around 6,125,000 subscribers

That tells you all you need to know about this world.

Cool info thanks. The most interesting thing I've shot and posted on YouTube has had about 60 views in the past 20 months, when do you think I can expect a comfotable income?

On 12/28/2016 at 1:37 AM, mercer said:

Since you're used to the GH2 with its limited functions (peaking, etc) and want to move to aps-c or full frame, then I would say in that price range, either the Nikon D500 for aps-c or the D750 for full frame. With the D500 you are getting excellent 1080p with the flat profile, plus a cropped 4K if you ever need it. Also the 1080p has an electronic 3-axis stabilization that is very interesting and gets decent reviews. The D750 is just an all around excellent full frame camera. There has been some great work shot with it and a lot of people will argue it may be the best full frame stills camera for... I don't know I don't really shoot stills but that's what I've read. 

If I wasn't to prepared to stay with MFT when I update my GH2 in the near future, I think I'd go down the Nikon path for 1080p Video, and Stills. Those cameras mentioned above have all received high praise, and of course there's Nikon glass as well.

2 hours ago, andrgl said:

Sorry to be shitty but that's not a lot of views. I did over 1.2 million this year with just 6 videos. (I'm not counting the views my channel accumulated over the last 12 months from videos that were released prior to 2016.) No ad monetization, made a little under 40k USD.

 

At that rate I hate to think what Casey Neistat earns in a good week!

I really think Olympus are aiming at stills first and they're loyal customers (who also love Olympus after sales help) and they've just turned the corner regarding video. 

28 minutes ago, jonpais said:

Here you go! Thanks Mercer!

 

Thanks guys. I'd be happy with that. Thought it also handled the sky and water well. Good work Jase!

25 minutes ago, Inazuma said:

@Stanley @jonpais

I did a side by side shootout with the GX80 (Gx85) and Sony a6300 in 1080p. I'm still meaning to get round to editing them into a video but here are some clips from the GX80:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1094036/P1010612.MP4

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1094036/P1010618.MP4

IMO: Detail is as good as other Panasonic cameras ive used. There is a little bit more aliasing going on but not as much as the a6300 and Canon APS-C. 

Thanks very much for that. Were they recorded in 1080p or 4K. They certaily look good and better than some reports I've read.

Thanks for looking Jon, but yeah there's not much out there to look at, and some people are saying that 1080p on the new line of G/GX cameras isn't the best.

When I used to patch my GH2, my 6 year old little old Lenovo G560 handled it just. So I might look into Edit ready. Cheers. 

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Looked great, nice hand held work. Skin tones do look good with this lut. Didn't really spot the difference in cameras as the content got my attention. 

Not having an up to date computer, or 4K screen, is really holding me back from 4K recording at the moment, and also learning Edit ready, New computer, New Camera, ProRes, etc, all at the samw time would probably do my head in. Anyway if I can be convinced that Panasonic 1080p has improved since the GH2, I'll get the G80 for IBIS and 4K for the future. Thanks.

Some people on DP Review are reporting that the quality of1080p on the GX85 isn't the best, so I'm wondering if anyone has found this to be true, and is it the same with the G85?

30 minutes ago, Zak Forsman said:

Going to be a little more cautious with the GH5 than I was with the GH4. I took possession of two of those on day one and spent a year trying to wrestle that image into something it wasn't capable of -- and VLog was a massive disappointment. Have been much happier with the Blackmagic line -- especially with the more cinematic motion cadence of those cameras. Optimistic about the GH5 but again, taking a wait and see approach.

Did you shoot much 24fps,1080p on the GH4, and if so was it an improvement on the GH3/GH2 ?

Still curious to know what the quality of1080p ( recorded in 1080p mode) at 24 fps is like on the G85. (sorry to interupt the GX85 / GH4 discussions)

Also wondering if anyone knows of an eyepiece that might adapt for it ? That's really important for me when I upgrade my GH2. 

1 hour ago, aldolega said:

Leeming posted in the Facebook group for the LUT that he had gotten ahold of some G85 footage, and that for the purposes of the LUT it was the same, and to use the existing G7/GH4 LUT.

Which makes me skeptical of either people's claims of the newer cameras having better color, or of his testing methodology. I don't see how both can be true (new different color science and the same LUT giving identical results).

Good point. I think his lut developement has been around Cine D settings, and always trying to match the GH4. Sounds like you read his whole thread anyway, but i think his settings and Lemming lut nails it.

2 hours ago, Stanley said:

I'm wondering if someone can please tell me what the 1080p quality is like in 1080p mode on the G85.

 

Bump.

13 minutes ago, jonpais said:

You don't leave IOS on when the camera is mounted on a tripod, do you?

When shooting at 300mm (600mm eq:) on a head like the Manfrotto 502 I used to, but I've now got an old Miller head and so I dont need it on with a good head. Some times I forget it's on until it bites me.

OK I just found out the100-300 OIS doesn't work with IBIS on G80

4 minutes ago, Cary Knoop said:

IBIS works fine but obviously the higher the focal length the harder it gets. 

I have been able to get decent results handheld with a 135mm non OIS manual lens with a Mitakon Zhongi II:

 

 

Cool, works a treat. I'm surprised at how stable the horizontal is. You posted a video last week of some hand held 100-400 shots and I was skeptical at first because of how good the horizontal was.But I'm seeing some amazing long lens work all showing great horizontal stability....I'm not so skeptical now. Thanks

What took you so long to answer!! Thanks Cary, good to know. But I presume the IBIS would handle it ok.

Whilst we're talking about long lenses, I'm wondering how the 100-300 would behave on the G80 with stabilisation turned on, especially if you had it on a head.

I love this lens and I have OIS switched on most of the time, but it can bite you on the arse sometimes, but most of the time it works great with ois on.

I threw a few clips together to show a mate a while back . Think the 1st clip is on ETS also.

I'm wondering if someone can please tell me what the 1080p quality is like in 1080p mode on the G85.

Also curious to know how the 100-300 lens behaves on this camera, but I'll ask that in the Lens Topic.