[vimeo]12472000[/vimeo] The results are finally in and EOSHD.com has found settings that give you the best possible quality from your GH1. There will also be improvements and updates still to come. Please read on! The GH1 can now do 50Mbit 1080p MJPEG and the quality is astounding. It isn’t quite 100% robust yet, certain types of shot can halt recording. But it’s very usable as you can see from the…
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Sush! Panasonic GH1 owners. Don’t tell anyone. This is top secret! The 1080p MJPEG is much better than the new AVCHD 32Mbit 1080p. Below are 1:1 crops of frames straight from the camera.
UPDATE: Tomorrow I’ll publish full settings, the final bit rate achieved. I need some time to shoot some decent footage and side by side shots with AVCHD 1080p to show just what a hike in quality this is. So – the Panasonic GH1. Great camera. Crap codec. Right? That’s all changed.
Recently some journalists were given a tour of Panasonic optical division’s factory in Japan.
Above: VITA 25k Glimpse of the future – Business Wire and EE Times report, via the excellent Image Sensors World blog that industrial image sensor manufacturer Cypress have just introduced a 35mm global shutter CMOS sensor for video.
Philip Bloom and Rick McCallum have been instrumental in using HDSLRs on the set of Lucasfilm movie Red Tails. For the recent green-screen shoot at a Prague sound-stage Philip invited two up-and-coming young filmmakers, Nino Leitner and Sebastian Wiegärtner to shoot with him. EOSHD caught up with Nino a few days after the shoot to ask him about all things DSLR video related and to find out what he gets…
Robert McLachlan ASC,CSC is a leading director of photography, whom’s work includes The Golden Compass, the Final Destination franchise and network TV show Human Target – www.fox.com/humantarget – on which he used the Panasonic GH1 HDSLR. I’m really pleased to bring you part 2 of my interview with Rob where we talk Human Target, Hollywood, HDSLR cameras and cinema.
UPDATE: The Sony A55 has now been announced and a review is out. It is very disappointing in terms of the video mode EOSHD has been made aware of an innovative step in DSLR video by Sony. Read more on the Sony Pellix HDSLRs here UPDATE. Specs are now revealed: 1) A55 16MP 10FPS EVF-1.44M 1.1X magnification 95% AVCHD full HD 2) A33 14MP 7FPS EVF-1.44M 1.1X magnification 95% AVCHD…