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What do you want to see in our deals?
I'm interested in some sony f970 batteries to work with the 312as or 209as led lights. Maybe a bundle of led lights + batteries?

Comment by eiji May 2012 permalink
What do you want to see in our deals?
The 209a/s led lights would be nice.

Comment by eiji May 2012 permalink
12mm f/1.6 Noktor
@JackBayer thanks :-) it should be normal then. And does the front part of your lens also move? (at the separation where the f stop value is indicated)

Comment by eiji May 2012 permalink
12mm f/1.6 Noktor
I just got my 12mm lens and I'm afraid I got a bit paranoid after reading about the several defective lenses some people received. I did some tests and while the image quality seems fine, there seems to be a bit of play in the rear mount and al…

Comment by eiji May 2012 permalink
Diffusion Filters (Screw-in)
@ChrisPeters Nice tests! Thanks for that! The effect is indeed very very subtle in your outdoor test, almost invisible to my eyes (maybe due to Vimeo compression as you mentioned it) But it becomes visible and quite pleasing in the indoor test. The …

Comment by eiji March 2012 permalink
Diffusion Filters (Screw-in)
Good example of the Black Pro Mist! In this video, blown highlights tend to glow... Not something everybody would want. As jrd noted, the Black Diffusion seems so far to be the best way to reduce edge sharpening without giving too much of a 'fi…

Comment by eiji February 2012 permalink
Diffusion Filters (Screw-in)
@DouglasHorn Thanks a lot for your observations! Any chance you'd have some footage that show the effects of these Glimmerglass?

Comment by eiji February 2012 permalink
Diffusion Filters (Screw-in)
@Brian202020 Do you happen to have any footage shot with those filters? That'd be great! If we can collect as much video examples as possible in this thread that'd be a great help for anyone looking for a diffusion filter!

Comment by eiji February 2012 permalink
Diffusion Filters (Screw-in)
@Kount_Michula Just saw the panning shot you posted in the low gop thread. Looks great!! That Quantum X v2 setting plus a good diffusion filter would be a very nice combination! @Gabel Yes, that would be very nice if you could post some footage!!…

Comment by eiji February 2012 permalink
Diffusion Filters (Screw-in)
Wuick test: http://vimeo.com/m/37401780 It's a black diffusion fx3 with a nd and a polarizer. In this example the effect doesn't come out as strong as the example above and makes the picture quite flat. I actually like the result! I'…

Comment by eiji February 2012 permalink
Diffusion Filters (Screw-in)
@DouglasHorn Thanks for all the the infos! It seems that the Glimmerglass displays more glow in the highlights than the Black Diffusion. Have you noticed that yourself when using it with the GH2? @ChrisPeters I haven't seen those video tests. …

Comment by eiji February 2012 permalink
Diffusion Filters (Screw-in)
@matthere Thanks for the video links!^^ I already saw the filter test on the Canon 5D II but I was thinking that the same filters would obviously give very different results on a GH2 as it seems to have more pronounced edge sharpening. Same for the…

Comment by eiji February 2012 permalink
Official Low GOP topic
@B3Guy Yep, but the only setting changed in the "testers section" is the 24p Video Buffer which has been set to x3600000 @bkmcwd Thanks for the test. Umm... the "flatline thingy" :( this is the same thing that happened to me wh…

Comment by eiji September 2011 permalink
Official Low GOP topic
@danyyyel I'm not sure about that. Haven't tried any other bitrates with GOP3. You could try setting the bitrate to 110M, 88M or 66M without changing anything else... maybe it'll work. Sorry I can't test these myself, I'm a …

Comment by eiji September 2011 permalink
Official Low GOP topic
@cosimo_bullo as driftwood said, I haven't seen any cadence issue in all my footage. @stray don't know yet about GOP1 but if this is any help 5dtorgb perfectly transcodes the GOP3 footage to ProresHQ

Comment by eiji September 2011 permalink
AVCHD maximum image quality settings and testing
@Ralph_B Thanks a lot for these tests! The results are indeed looking good for the 132M GOP3 AQ2 settings! Just one correction though... my 1080p24 settings are actually based on @driftwood's who did such a terrific job... so, you know, "…

Comment by eiji September 2011 permalink
Official Low GOP topic
Well... it may just be because of the AF. The tests I've done were all shot with the Voigtländer 25mm so everything MF. Maybe just try to lower the AQ to 1 or 0. Anyway for a shot with a lot of movements and details it's not so useful to s…

Comment by eiji September 2011 permalink
Official Low GOP topic
@stonebat strange... didn't try shutter speed at 250 but I shot a whole day at 720p60 GOP6 shutter speed 125 and except 3 lockups everything went fine. The graphs I've attached above come from that footage. At what value did you set the AQ…

Comment by eiji September 2011 permalink
Official Low GOP topic
@stray The bitrate of these settings is indeed high... depends on your needs though. For a shoot where you can backup your files regularly I think it's not an issue. But if you need to shoot 1 hour straight then yeah... it becomes problematic.…

Comment by eiji September 2011 permalink
Official Low GOP topic
@paglez Don't know about spanning... didn't even try it, sorry... @stray have you tried the settings posted above? 1080p24 132M GOP3 AQ2 is quite stable!! can't be so sure about the 720p though...

Comment by eiji September 2011 permalink
Official Low GOP topic
@driftwood Yes, they DO work quite fine!! that's why I used them :) I just meant that it can seem a bit "too easy" not to tune any other settings and get such great results!! not complaining at all though... :) And yeah... I'm n…

Comment by eiji September 2011 permalink
Official Low GOP topic
@stonebat Yeah... these "untuned" settings seem almost too simple to actually work... a bit Ockham's razor-like :) Here are the 1080p24 132M GOP3 AQ2 & 720p60 64M GOP6 AQ2 settings combined! ps: If you run into too many lockups…

Comment by eiji September 2011 permalink
Official Low GOP topic
I just finished 2 days of shooting using @driftwood's Low GOP settings (thanks again for the last minute help) and I thought I'd report back in case someone out there needed some feedback for a "real life non-death chart happy shootin…

Comment by eiji September 2011 permalink
Official Low GOP topic
@chauncy Thanks for your input! (Sorry if it's a bit off topic) Yes it's a UHS-1 card and I've seen the tests but many people also reported that it was ok even with the gh2. I just have another Transcend Class 10 16gb card and I tr…

Comment by eiji August 2011 permalink
Official Low GOP topic
Yep. I tried those settings and though the quality is stunning and I'd really like to use them, in-camera playback almost never works (even with power off/on). And I'm using a Sandisk Extreme Pro 45MB so it shouldn't be the card. Actu…

Comment by eiji August 2011 permalink
Official Low GOP topic
Ok. Thanks for the tips. Actually I'd already played with the FB1, FB2 and EFL but it always prevented the files to playback in-cam so I avoided them... I just did a few more test though with 1x 1,5x and 2x multiplier but to no avail :( I hav…

Comment by eiji August 2011 permalink
Official Low GOP topic
@stonebat Thanks a lot for your observations! You were right indeed. I did some heavy motion test on 24p GOP6 110M AQ3 and it died after 40sec. So I tried to do as follow and changed only the bitrate and the AQ: - 88M AQ3: flatlines after a bit a…

Comment by eiji August 2011 permalink
Official Low GOP topic
1080p24 110M GOP6 AQ3 & 720p60 48M GOP12 AQ3 Set Ok... Though I don't know squat about AVCHD theory I decided to do some empiric testing of my own after reading many many posts and I came up with these "MID GOP" settings: - 1080p…

Comment by eiji August 2011 permalink
AVCHD maximum image quality settings and testing
@cbrandin and others I've tried the last @cbrandin's 66M settings and the quality is indeed stunning!! I just have a problem with playing back in camera in 1080p24 with high detailed scenes (like foliage). I use a freshly formatted Sandisk…

Comment by eiji August 2011 permalink
Official Low GOP topic
@Braamokiev Cheers! :) I was thinking more about Low GOP settings which allow AQ1 or 2 but I just tried @Kae's settings and they are indeed great! Will use them for my shoot if nothing else better comes out!

Comment by eiji August 2011 permalink

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