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GF2 Stable Settings
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  • EbachervilleEbacherville

    Earlier pond footage graded for a "over punched" film look. contrasty and saturated.. I shot it at I believe -1 on everything.. for flat footage.. didn't spend much of time, just found a look I liked and applied it to all the clips.. only adjusted contrast and saturation.

  • EbachervilleEbacherville

    Here is the test I did for a time lapse at sunset with pvdogs patch. wanted to test spanning .. worked perfectly spanned 2x flawlessly.. I also wanted to see how bad the auto ISO adjustment was.. yes it adjusts for avalable light , butdoes it rather smoothly, no huge jumps in iso like some other cameras I've attempted to use, didn't expect this to even come close to as good as this did.. it adjust very finely over time.. The end long fade was added in post.. but worked for my needs for sunset/sunrise time lapses.. Got pretty grainy after that , but was still perfectly exposed, but probably at 32 billion ISO.... lol

    If Vitality and team gets manual controls figured on this, were going to be so happy with these little cheap cameras.

  • EbachervilleEbacherville

    @PVDOG played with your patch some more today, was foggy this morning, and it started burning off, slapped on a old school 70-220mm F3.5 (140-440mm with crop) and decided to see what I could find at a local pond. pretty impressed with this patch great motion and detail.. this lens isnt that sharp so i would not let that be the judge of sharpness.. for a $250 camera this thing rocks.. only downfall now is no manual controls.. hopefully that will come. I also tested spanning tonight for a sunset shot, worked flawlessly, filled up a cheap 16gb class 10 transcend card with no issues.. This bitrate allows for good record times good quality and really with the sensor being less sharp than a GH2 seems like a perfect match for the GF series.. Today's extreme telephoto stuff:

  • fehafeha

    @stonebat , I know is not bug :-) but is bugging me ... Maybe start new thread ...

  • stoneystoney

    @feha that's not a bug...

  • fehafeha

    This thread is about the stable settings, but I have another problem, the HDMI out does not work while recording so I can't use external monitor ...

  • RamboRambo

    gameb, read your manual page 69 for the answer re > still mode being smaller than 720p in ETC mode.

    Sorry i gave you a bumsteer about the "My Color" in M mode, i have a custom mode C1 setup for a specific purpose that has MyColor Mode adjustments included as part of that Custom setting i was incorrectly using that to answer your question. Yes, My Color is disabled in M mode, you are correct.

    BUT.... you can use ""Picture Adjust"" setting in the REC mode to set the contrast, sat, NR and sharp. It appears as a spanner Icon top LHS of the LCD during movie recording in Manual mode. SEE page 137 of the Manual.

  • gamebgameb

    @rambo the GF2 didn't refuse to go to ETC mode in 720P. It went correctly to ETC mode in the first place and then after pressing record it jumped to an even closer image, like from amplification factor 3.9 to 5.0. I read about that somewhere in these days before, don't remember where. It happened to other people before. That was pretty bothering, because you couldn't really frame your picture precisely. But now its gone. Don't ask me why.

    I don't understand how you adjust settings in "my color" and still use manual mode "M". When I adjust settings in "my color" and then switch to "M", my settings are gone.

  • RamboRambo

    gameb, when the gf2 refuses to switch to ETC mode in 720p, just power off/on and it will work again. I found this out a while ago went shooting the moon with 2400mm equiv.

    And no you don't lose any manual control you had before, it's the way the GF2 works. You can lock shutter and focus, but there appears to be trigger points of exposure where the camera unlocks if you go beyond or below a set range. I'm assuming the range tied to the compensation range. You gain some control using ND filters. http://personal-view.com/talks/discussion/2628/gf2-flicker-reduction-behavior#Item_7

  • gamebgameb

    There are a few strange things about that camera: Now when I shoot in 720p, put the ETC modus on and record it, everything is fine. But in the last days, what happened when I pushed record, the image would jump even more closer, like a double etc mode. Now it stopped doing that, don't ask me why, in the meantime I was changing a few settings.

  • kitanokitano

    The picture adjust setting on default custom 1 (p) setting removes noise better than custom setting with NR +2 on C2(M). How bizzare...

  • JayB38JayB38

    @gameb. I'll try that out. I also select RAW for shooting as well. Just still in the learning stages. Thanks

  • gamebgameb

    @JayB38 if you adjust the picture settings in my colour, you loose the manual shutter and aperture mode. So as far as I understood, choose picture adjust in photo mode, choose your picture settings and then choose manual video mode.

  • JayB38JayB38

    I too, like gameb looking for ways to reduce noice as well. I'll try the My Color settings.

  • gamebgameb

    @rambo cheers

  • RamboRambo

    My color settings are applied to video as well as photos so make the adjustments there. They are actually stronger adjustments than the profiles in GH2, so go easy with the sliders.

  • gamebgameb

    Sorry, guys, I am getting crazy, I am in "M" recording modus and cannot find the menu-point to set up the "picture adjust", with contrast, sharpness, saturation and noise reduction. I only have adjustments in "my color". In the manual it says left and right arrows, but on my camera settings thats for AF-Mode (left) and White Balance (right), any help, please?

  • EbachervilleEbacherville

    Made a macro product shot, out of storage on Vimeo this week.. great patch , loving it! shot on GF2 with room lighting and 1.7 20mm pani pancake lens.

  • kitanokitano

    @gameb For £17 nothing is bad specially a HP branded class 10. Max speed tested on my pc is 20Mbs. Although my Dell XPS (last year model) doesn't recognise the card, have to use an external card reader, that's fine with me. You could buy it at play.com.

    (The price fluctuates between 17-18)

    http://www.play.com/Electronics/Electronics/4-/29682924/HP-Pro-Series-32GB-Class-10-SDHC-Memory-Card/Product.html?searchstring=hp+sdhc&searchsource=0&searchtype=allproducts&urlrefer=search

  • EbachervilleEbacherville

    rolling shutter is kind of a problem with any cmos camera.. even my pro pani cmos based ENG cameras at work suffer from rolling shutter.. you learn to deal with it.. Software correction and or controlling your shots.. other than a few select movies most have very controlled shots.. Not, Hunger games, gosh that opening made me sick.. that kind of movement wasn't made for film..

  • pdluminapdlumina

    Went out in a really bright day and finally was able to obtain a nice blurry image on moving objects. I discovered that when using the M mode, with the aperture at 22, the Shutter at 60, the flicker reduction at 1/60 and shooting on 1080i, the video comes out smooth as butter.. HOWEVER, the appearance of rolling shutter is much more evident (not visible with the iA active or with higher shutter speeds).

  • gamebgameb

    @pvdog 720p crashes with sandisk 32gb extreme, 1080i looks great

  • EbachervilleEbacherville

    PVDOG, Awesome patch! (SetF) Put this on my GF2 last night, got a spring shower this evening, so I let mother nature test the patch out.. 3rd shot was a lul in the rain so I grabbed some fine needle and branch detail, in the raining shots the motion is great, very happy with this patch , I'm going to try it on my GH2 once I'm through the project I'm currently working on with it.

    I second the feeling that if you could develop this with 720p also working in camera you may have one of the best stable patches out yet. I never shoot in 720p. But it would complete this patch for people that do.

    Shot on GF2 with older class 6 Adata card.. at 1080 60i, shots averaged between 40Mbps and 45Mbps with a old 135mm f2.8 Minolta Rokkor PF lens. Rendered at 1080 29.97p in Vegas at 16Mbps for upload. Then whatever Vimeo did to it.. :-) Not graded in any way, simply cut together straight from the camera

  • gamebgameb

    @kitano where did you buy the hp card for 17 pounds? how is your experience with that card? cluster 1 spans for me on sandisk 32gb extreme.

  • kitanokitano

    Good work @pvdog. Spans smoothly on HP 32 GB Class 10 (bought for £17). Although I like @driftwood 'Cluster 1' as well, but it doesn't span. Hopefully 'Cluster 2' might change that.

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