@yak What difference do you see between -5 NR and 0 NR?

@yak what do you have NR set to though?

@yak in page 4 in this topic I uploaded a test in contrast to show how noisy is to shoot with contrast in 0 and in -5 when boosting mids, I disagree about loosing details in -5 but I believe as nobbystylus says that contrast -5 is responsible for the skin tones issue

@yak Many thanks for your informative post. I'm already in the middle of a shoot but will test this new setting soon!

After doing other tests with the GH3, I came to the conclusion that 0 contrast is the way to go.

Here is the same shot with -5 contrast and 0 contrast, I shot directly at a light bulb. When set to 0 there is a bit more blown out details, but when you reduce exposure in post, you discover that there's more shades of white when set at 0, but the absolute blow out is about the same.

The opposite is also true when shooting shadows, boost your global level in post and see what happens.

So It confirms that when you shoot -5 you are compressing shadows and highlights and sretching (and losing details) in the mid tones.

http://cinescopophilia.com/the-year-after-next-that-is-how-we-read-the-gh4k-panasonic-camera

..so i would say that it is not too late to release some gh3 hacks ;-)

@starios thanks!

@Chris74 Very very nice!

@jdude Thanks so much!

I have a BMPCC also and I can assure you that the "flat" footage coming out of it is literally another planet, in terms of what you can pull out of it in post. And I'm speaking of ProRes, not even raw. In cases where no "special" grading is needed, on the GH3 I guess it's better to try to bake the look directly into the footage as much as possible, without trying to make it so flat and hoping to add everything in post. Now if only the LCD image wouldn't look like an animated GIF, that would be easier to obtain ... :)

Even before any hacks it may be worth understanding what it can do combined with Picture Styles. Contrast adjustments, etc. It may behave differently with mp4, mov, etc... Al

It has really gone unnoticed that @Vesku discovered that setting HDR, which needs to have non-RAW setting to Picture Quality, does something when recording movies. Nowhere in the manual is it explained that HDR works in movie recording, nor what it does during movie recording. This is indeed an interesting discovery of the GH3 and warrants some experimentation. I have done some experiments and it does look like some sort of HDR is done with each frame. I don't know if this HDR is worth doing for cinematic movies, but it warrants further investigation by the community, IMHO. I am finding that under some conditions it does a fantastic job of increasing dynamic range... Al

@yak Thanks for the compliment. I agree that if you go for the -5 then you need to grade agressive. But that's what I love :)