Moon t7, Before and after. I use davinchi resolve for grading. :)) I like this hack, really strong thing. http://yadi.sk/d/zb7GREQmHwBZL check the full hd video quality in 40 mbps (65 mb file size)

I agree that they are fuckin brilliant cameras, will never sell mine - this is my first test of Moon T7 which happened to be nighttime. Sorry about the hand held footage - I shot while on break as a musician at Four Seasons, Maui so couldn’t look too conspicuous! So cool that I could just put the GH2 into my fanny pack with the 20mm f1.7 - the small size of this camera and lens can be a real advantage!

Anyhow, I am indeed impressed with Driftwood’s Moon T7 hack & look forward to shooting in day light! There are a number of clips that I shot here on purpose to challenge in terms of aliasing & moire but I think the GH2/Moon T7 did an excellent job - much better than the GH3 in this area as well as with noise. The footage looks much better before Vimeo upload, also note that here are overhead fans in some of the clips which create flickering in the light which could be misinterpreted.

Question - In the “Creative Movie” menu I chose “24P Cinema” assuming it is the highest bit rate. I already read in this post that “High Bit Rate” (HBR) is a lower bit rate but am not sure what the “Manual Movie Mode” in this menu is in terms of bit rate? One more question please: When I export for Vimeo I just choose the 1080P share option in FCPX which is described for uploading to such sites. Is this my best option for retaining as much quality after Vimeo does it’s thing or is it better to export say in ProRes 422(HQ) and let Vimeo deal with that?

Have you tried sharpening + 3 @johnhizzle

True. Moon T4 has sharper luma frequency values in the matrix

Nearly. Just got so much going on at work plus the GH4 is taking a large part of my free time. I will endeavour to finish off HBR stuff and tightening a few 24p items asap.

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Moon T7 has been great for me. BUT I did a music video last night with it. But it stopped recording at around 4-mins. And this happened about 3 or 4 times. Does the Moon T7 have a recording limit? It screwed me up cause this video I did was 5 mins long and the GH2 stopped at 4 mins.

But I do use the SanDisk Extreme Pro 64GB UHS-1 SDXC 95mbs. And it was stopping right at 4 mins. Even when I formatted the card before shooting.

This wouldn't have been a problem if the music track wasn't around 5:30 minutes. Any ideas about this?

THanks

@raf702

Although the quality with T-7 is awesome in my experience it is not as stable as T-5. I had the same exact experience that you have, except it was a talking head type of interview and this is with 2 GH2 cameras rolling. The scene was basically an overexposed white backdrop that caused the both cameras to stop recording. So depending on the scene that you are filming you may experience a failure in the recording.

@GeoffreyKenner I was using 64GB 95/Mbs cards so no it is not the cards, also I formatted each card with SD card formatter in my computer, and then formatted the cards in camera prior to the recording to help prevent any issues whilst recording. On top of that I was using manual lenses a 35mm 1.4 and 85mm 1.4 the electronic lenses increase the chance of having issues with the higher bitrate patches.

I really like the look of Moon T-7 but for me reliability is more important then image quality, my suggestion is to use Moon T-5. Please keep in mind that Moon T-7 is really pushing the limits of the GH2, the camera's stock bitrate is 24Mpbs and with Moon T-7 it is consistently recording between 140-150Mbps. Moon T-5's bitrate depends on the scene that you are shooting but for the most part is normally around 100Mpbs topping out at about 150Mbps with more detailed complex scenes.

@Azo, after comparing T7 back to back with T5, I found that I liked T7 quite a bit more. Recently I have shot quite a bit with my 12-35 on T7 24L, and it has been great. Excellent image and complete reliability at around 79-80 Mbps. Has anyone else found that they like T7 24L quite a lot?

@Azo Well that sucks to know. I've been amazed by Moon T7's image quality, I can't see myself going to a lower firmware. But I don't know how much of a quality T5 and T7, and if I should switch over.

It's no problem when shooting scenes obviously, but shooting a constant scenario like a music video, interview is certainly an issue with recording stoppage.

A gig I did a few years back on mainly hacked GH2s.