Official Panasonic GH2 Thread - Page 3

There is an adapter that is supposed to control the Aperture of Canon EOS lenses although it does it manually with it's own blades.

Too many mixed reactions over a concept like this.
http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread...erture-control


Now the one a lot of people are waiting for will control the lenses electronically. I suspect the demand for that thing will be enormous just like the Nokton lens.
http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread...=1#post2146901



There is absolutely no time limit in non European GH2 units. The European units gets 30 minutes for tax reasons. There is also no heating issues. That's obviously assuming It'll be like the GH1.

The price for the manual adapter doesn't seam bad but I have no idea if It'll work as good as we hope.
http://shop.ebay.com/items/?_nkw=Can...adis=&LH_CAds=

The electronic version that I expect most people will buy is the $700 version. It may seam a lot for people who have just a few or cheap lenses but for people who have a lot or expensive lenses, that might no be so bad. With both Olympus and Panasonic sharing the same mount and a professional camera also having the same mount, for sure it'll be just as hectic is the Nokton lens. The same thing even happened to the Panasonic 20mm lens.

Even Zeiss now makes lenses with a Micro Four Thirds lens mount. This is a big difference than when the original G1 first came out in which a lot of people were saying that Micro Four Thirds won't survive.

It's actually $900 for the body, $1000 with a cheap lens and $1,500 with the expensive 14-140 lens.

Still, in broad daylight, the TM700 is significantly better as far as my definition of quality is concerned. I'd rather see an ultra clean image than an image in which if your not careful, you can see Moire. On the other hand, put a 20mm lens on the GH2 and It'll be better than a TM700. Never-mind putting on the f/0.95 lens. This is why having both will compliment each but that's expensive.

I'm comparing the TM700 to the GH2. You get higher resolution, less moire. Basically a cleaner image since it was made to be a camcorder first and has 1080 60p. The GH2 is the most detailed video capable still camera since it's made more like a camcorder than DSLRs but it's still made to be a still camera first.

I'm talking about the GH2 beating the TM700 in low light environments once you put a fast lens on.



I have time to do some shooting today with the GH2 and I might post some things tonight.

I have 2 videos up on Vimeo but unfortunately there was a glitch and so it's taking a long time to get back on track and convert all of the people's videos. Vimeo is fully aware of the issue and trying to get everything resolved as quickly as possible. It's just a couple of videos of a lot of people ice skating at the Frog Pond in Boston. The first one is without the extension and the second one is with the extension. For broad daylight, that should work very well but as expected for low light situations, the low light noise is literally magnified. At night, it should mostly only be used if you want to see further. It's been hours since those 2 videos were up and I'm hoping it wont take that many hours more to finally get converted so I can link it here.

Just by playing around with it in the house, I notice that the focusing actually does seam a bit better than the GH1's. I've had a lot of good photos with the GH1 but I've had a few photos in which I wish it would have been more in focus. This was another reason I wanted to upgrade. There are obviously other reasons.

The body itself looks much more professional than the GH1's. Obviously Panasonic want's DSLR users to feel more right at home but a digital viewfinder (which is really an extremely high quality one) combined with the much smaller size makes it look a little awkward especially with the 20mm lens. It's a little hard to explain in words how weird that looks. Like the GH1, the GH2 with the 20mm lens can easily fit in a lot of coat pockets.

My dislikes:
-I wish it had a shutter speed of 24 and 120. A lot of cameras are the same way but still.
-The battery is different than the GH1's. It looks like a precautionary measure just in-case the firmware gets hacked. Besides higher bit rates, that hack also allows people to remove the European 30 minute restriction and the ability to use third party batteries.
It looks like you cannot go from regular to tele mode during record. You have to choose it before hand before you start recording. That could have really been a cool effect.
-It's very hard to find spare batteries in the US at the moment.
-Their is a slow motion feature but it only goes to 80% speed I believe. It would have been better if it was 40% speed which is 60p slowed down to 24p.
-Knowing me, wanting a 1080 60p mode shouldn't be surprising.
-I wish the bit rates for all modes were higher.
-I'm poorer now for buying it.



I originally wanted to only tell you people that 2 of my videos is going to be up shortly and give a link to a cool video I found on Vimeo but I got a bit carried away.
http://vimeo.com/17942063

OK, here are a couple of my first uploaded GH2 videos.
http://www.vimeo.com/17969028
http://www.vimeo.com/17970275

Like I said in the description, I'm not sure if the auto focusing setting I used was ideal. There could have been a better setting. One thing is for sure, with the combination of f/1.7 and little lighting, the auto focusing works far harder than if it was in broad daylight with f/11 for example. Plus I did say it was completely hand held. That lens doesn't have a stabilizer unlike the 14-140 which not only has an excellent one, the auto focusing is very close to the quality of a dedicated camcorder. Believe me, before I uploaded those, I was already anticipating critical comments because I know how bad they look. You could say it's also a torture test for the lens with all the people going by.



With the TM700 you get better looking motion with 1080 60p. Even in 1080 60i mode the picture will still look better than the GH2's because of it's better encoding abilities. Plus you don't get the moire and aliasing that you usually get in DSLRs. Yes the GH2 handles those much better than any DSLR but it's still not close to a dedicated HD camcorder. The AF100 on the other hand is a different story. Panasonic not only controlled the moire and aliasing perfectly fine, even the skew effects are controlled properly. Still, it's a $4,795 camera. For a significantly higher price tag, you'd expect much better performance. I basically like images that are as defect free as possible. That's one of the reasons I definitely wouldn't mind owning a 2/3" Scarlet.

I have a 32" Sony EX710. Basically 1080p and 120 hertz. When it comes to moire, it doesn't matter what kind of TV you have to see it easily when it happens.

That was obviously not my best shooting at all. It was my first outing with the GH2 and just having some fun.

I ask myself the same thing when it came to why I bought the GH2 when I want a TM700 badly. I'm into photography as well although I don't talk about it as much here and the TM700's photo mode is junk compared to it. I've wished the GH1 had that crop mode and the fact that the GH2 has it is another reason. Now when I'm shooting important events at night, I'll shoot much better than those 2 clips and the low light quality should be better on the GH2. With all that said, I did say in the past that I also plan on getting one of Panasonic's 1080 60p camcorders. I just have to sell my hack-able GH1 body first and use the money toward it. They really do compliment each other.

Ken,
Try to hit "HD" on the lower right part of the screen and then try to expend it.

v1rtu0s1ty,
From what he said in the comments, He used mostly the stock 14-140mm lens and the 7-14mm lens so basically he must have done that in post.