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Official Panasonic GH3 topic, series 3
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  • rNeilrNeil

    One of the comments about GH3's is the way the images give at times "plasticene" skin, with (even when shot with good wb) some bluish tones in the highlights. Yea, in processing some things through recently I've had to deal with this. For stills, using Lightroom's grain feature makes a HUGE difference in how skin appears ... adding a fairly light bit of medium-sized sort of 'rough' grain to the image makes the skin SO much more life-like, and at that point the bluish highlights don't seem nearly as noticeable to simply disappear. Of course, one of the magician's trade tricks of both stills and video is captivating the viewer's eye on what you WANT them to see, not the minor pitfalls here and there, right?

    In video, I'm trying to do something similar ... though there it seems that adding a hint of grain coupled with a very slight minus-blue in the highlights works to do the job. I've been toying (in AE) with both Shian's Ghears' version of film grain, and also the built-in noise/grain tools ... but I need some footage of close-up faces to work on to really come up with a "plan", and I don't have any 'here' right now. Need to shoot some, in amongst the OTHER 5,000 immediate needs.

    There's never enough time to simply play with this stuff to really learn it, in the way my brain wants too. Just gotta get to 'good enough for this job' and move on. Sigh.

    Neil

  • MikeLinnMikeLinn

  • lioneldmlioneldm

    Another GH3 HDMI question from me (thanks to everyone who helped me before BTW): if I am recording and the HDMI cable/signal gets pulled out/interrupted, does the recording stop, as it does with the GH2.

    For context, I am interested as I use wireless HDMI for jumbocam-ing and recording at the same time. GH2 with a hdmi throughput monitor is working fine so far, but if the GH3 doesn't need it AND it gives me extra reach on EXT mode with HDMI out still active, then it will be worth my while investing in.

  • a4pa4p

    @Renovatio

    The thing with the grid is that it covers the subject, and because of that I have found it too much distracting while composing the image. That is why an improved crop marks feature would be very welcome from me

  • RenovatioRenovatio

    @a4p

    You're right. The grids can help you, anyway.

  • a4pa4p

    Am I the only one who needs a feature to set crop marks with different aspect ratios (not just the widescreen, but also the classic 4:3 cinematic ones as the 1.37:1) on the GH3 LCD?

    I believe that this one would be a nice (and possible) thing to be included in a future hack...

  • RenovatioRenovatio

    With respect, i ask: any news about the hack?

    I can't find the topic about hack progress.

  • konjowkonjow

    @Brian_Siano 1. about 3h recorded files. 2. dont know I never used this one

  • Brian_SianoBrian_Siano

    I have a video shoot coming up, and I may need to rent a GH3. I have two important questions:

    1. How much recording time is there on a fully charged battery? (May need to rent 2)
    2. Are there any spanning problems using a Transcend Class 10 32-gig card?
  • dmorenodmoreno

    I just shot this music video entirely on a GH3. SLR Magic 12mm, Lumix 14mm, Nokton 25mm, Canon FD 50 mm, Rokinon 85 mm. Used transcode to Cineform for color correction. Hope you like it.

  • greyapplegreyapple

    @belfryman Ahah, thanks

  • belfrymanbelfryman

    @greyapple I don't know the answer to your questions but I do know your video made me crap my pants! Nice job.

  • GraemeMGraemeM

    @jfilmmaker I am using a Flashpoint ZeroGrav stabilizer, just the arm without the vest. http://www.adorama.com/FPSTAB.html For the price this thing is incredible, very happy with it.

  • greyapplegreyapple

    Hi guys, someone can explain pro/cons of iDynamic and iResolution? in this video i tried to set these to off.

  • jfilmmakerjfilmmaker

    @GraemeM The reel looked really awesome. What rig were you using for camera stabilization for the slow motion/smooth moving camera in the forest, etc.? Trying to figure out a good stabilization system for my GH3. Thx!

  • stariosstarios

    Guys I need your advice. I am planning to buy an olympus 14-35 f/2.0 but I also need to be able to do my job, meaning, I shoot weddings and I don't have money to spend for a good wireless follow focus to use my gh3 on steady, so, do you know if you can control using lumix link the focus on a zuiko lens like you control it on panasonic lenses? Please, if someone has the 14-35 or 35-100 zuiko lens test it to answer me, please, because the cost is getting too high and I don't know what to do.

  • GraemeMGraemeM

    @imaginario a wide variety but my main lenses are Lumix 14-140, Opteka 8mm fisheye, Nikkor 28mm f2.8, 105mm f2.8, 50mm f2.0. By far that set of Nikkor's are my favourite, built like a tank.

  • imaginarioimaginario

    Very Nice reel @GraemeM, really looks great. Which lenses did you use? I have Voigtlander 17.5mm and right now I'm looking for a normal-tele lens that can keep a similar look. And @Mikelinn, also liked very much your video. I'd like to know which slider did you carry for your trip and let you do all those nice shots. I have a slider wich is very heavy and not easy to carry and when I use it it doesn't look as smooth as yours. Thanks everybody very much for all the support I find here in this site.

  • 5thwall5thwall

    @MikeLinn Looks great! What settings and lenses? Looked like a fun trip.

  • MikeLinnMikeLinn

  • andrevanberloandrevanberlo

    Wow @GraemeM ...very nice shots! As a snowboarder and outdoors person I love the snowboard shots!

  • AlecRAlecR

    Has the gamma shift problem been fixed yet?

  • GraemeMGraemeM

    Thank for the share @MikeLinn!. However I do need to explain that this was a preliminary cut, and my iMac's HD died losing project files so I am in need of doing a re-cut. Shorter, fix warp stabilization etc.

  • MikeLinnMikeLinn

  • rNeilrNeil

    I've got a GH3 and an all-Win7 shop, came out of stills and our machines were built for that. AMD/Radeon sets, really process stills well. However, ain't a video editor out there that seems to like anything but the Intel/Nvidia stuff in the Windows world. Playing video on the internal-monitor whilst in PremPro or AE is ... even at 1/4 res ... choppy at times.

    A friend with prior vid experience (4 yrs ago?) and good computer-building skills thinks that changing the codec for working in PremPro/Speedgrade/AE over the mov the camera produces would speed things up ... and has suggested working in Huff YUV.

    The stuff I've found on that is it is a 32-bit codec, and I'm all 64-bit ... and I can't see how it would help. I've downloaded the DNxHD material and tried that, no speed improvement noted. Are there any codecs out there that would be good to process in that would speed things up significantly over the GH3 native mov or DNxHD?

    I'm thinking that setting up a RAID 0 pair of drives for the working files would be a better use of time right now.

    The machine has a four-core AMD chip, 8gigs RAM, and a Radeon graphics card with 2gigs on it ... 120G SSD system drive, 60G SSD "cache" drive, Win7-Ultimate ... and often even whilst in rendering, it's nowhere near maxing the CPU (cores mostly balanced, but at about 50-60% utilisation) and GPU though the RAM can get to 85%.

    Neil

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