And now that Canon 5D MkIII is able to shoot RAW video.... Don't we just hate Canon and Magic Lantern for doing this? :) Yet, I would love to see another Zacuto Great Camera Shootout. It's a must watch for anyone who hasn't seen it yet http://www.zacuto.com/shootout-revenge-2012/revenge-great-camera-shootout-part-one

@Maya :

Yes, GH2 is a contrasty camera, that's why I insisted many times that the mighty persons here who create the patches should pay a lot of attention especially to lowering the contrast and its settings in the GH2 profiles.

The patches of those higher qualities and higher details are more that enough. I'm sure that at least 80% of all the patches are not used by the GH2 owners, only few of them.

So, once again, the hard work should be dedicated especially to the GH2 profiles and extending their parameters (especially the contrast and sharpness settings).

GH1 one was released, then GH2 was released, now GH3 is released and still no any patch or just a try about the PROFILES.

I know this my post now will be followed by the same avoids and denials as before, but please just think about my words: a GH2 Profiles Patch would be THE MOST important and THE MOST popular if existed after some efforts otherwise spent for many similar patches to each other...

@Oedipax @vicharris:

I tried to use Moon T5 for first time in ETC mode and I'm just shocked: in low light situation the image is simply terrible - ugly wide horizontal lines, banding and much noise! And I'm talking about ISO160, f1.0!!!!!

Any idea how to avoid this???

Here's a problem I've been having recently on Moon T5 (overall I'm very happy with it):

On image areas that are basically uniform color and low detail, but somewhat varying in brightness (like a wall, or a white cyc backdrop) I will get really funky pixellation/blocking artifacts. Typically I can fix this in grading, but not always.

Is there a better hack to use in these type of settings? Maybe intravenus v2, or Drewnet?

@benzopilas. Thanx for that! We used a panny 20mm 1.7, Yashica 50mm 2.0, Canon 80mm. Shure some of the shots were little bit out of focus but mostly im loooking for expression in the pictures rather then perfection. Thats the reason. =)

@kidgray Very nice! Just a focus was a bit off in some of the shots. What lenses did you use?

@kidgray Really nice grading! Really enjoy the framing if each shot. Nice, very nice.

New TV:30 shot with Moon T5

@sakattag76

I'd recommend you do what you need to do to purchase that SanDisk card. It's the goto card for ALL patches, I think.

@5thwall

The only downside I've seen for DREWnet so far is that it just doesn't scrub as smooth on my older i7 920, whereas Moon plays and scrubs almost like DV.

I would like to report some issues I had yesterday on a wedding with "Moon" trial5. Recording at 50i with the SH settings to keep the bitrate low, GH2 froze 5-6 times and needed to remove battery. Camera on a flycam with the pancake 14mm & Sony wide converter mostly at f/8 with continues focus on. My SD cards sandisk 32GB Extreme HD Video 30MB/s, formatted first on a PC and then in the GH2. My question is, what I have to do so next time won't have the same problem. I need the best settings for motion on 25p or 50i (PAL BluRay). Do I have to buy the sandisk 64GB 95MB/s (not possible right now) or do I have to choose another settings for my SD cards.

@ 5thwall like you (and everybody else i guess) I've been trying to find that perfect balance. Bitrate, stability, quality, practicality. Since the release of Cluster X it's been a ping pong match for me between DREWnet V8 and Moon T5. (NOTE: I'm using the SanDisk 95Mb/s 64MB cards exclusively) Both have given me almost "firmware" stability - spanning, in camera playback, etc. An occasional stopped recording for longer takes (15 minutes with Moon T5 on 720p 60fps High NTSC) but no camera lock up where you have to pull the battery for either patch.

My humble opinion from personal testing: DREWnet V8 is exceptional all the way around. One of the main advantages over Moon T5 is file size. eg: If an identical movie recording file size is 3.1GB with DREWnet, then the same shot is going to be say...around 5GB with Moon. No big deal until you get a couple hours of takes strung together and find your B-roll is 25GBs with Moon whereas DREWnet would be around say... 13 to 15GBs.

In the end it's about quality to what my eyes see. Moon has me. When I reload Moon after shooting with DREWnet for a while, I'm blown away at the albeit subtle but fantastic quality of Moon T5. Beautiful, clean, edit and grades wonderfully in post with Premiere Pro. My solution to Moon's file size - I've upgraded my computers hard drives for a total of 6.5TB's of working space.

Hope this helps and happy shooting.

PS: Driftwood recently announced Moon T6 is coming. Can't wait to see how it performs!