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Drum roll please.... I've finally got around to creating and releasing a LUT that gives accurate colour on the S5II and S5IIx. Big thanks to @Andrew Reid for allowing me to post about this. It's available here: https://lumasweet.com/shop/p/lumasweetlifelikes5ii I'll get around to doing a write up on it at some stage. In the meantime, here's a YT video (don't laugh!) that I made about it. This might also be of interest to anyone who's interested in camera colour science in general, even if you don't have this camera.

Lol, @kye the amount of time it took me to make that simple video is just ridiculous! And I make videos for a living. I should have known better 😂 I am proud of the colour conversion though. I spent a long time trying to get it as close as possible without breaking the image. And that's the kind of stuff I do actually enjoy. For me, it's the digital equivalent of pottering around in the garden shed.

Well done on getting such a great match... and the video too. Your career as a camera influencer has begun!!

Great use of the Luma Colour Checker shirt Jim 👍 The only question I have is why a massive company like Panasonic are SO SHIT at doing this themselves?! I don’t know anything about this kind of thing but it’s my mission to understand more over this Winter and once this season is done, I think I’m going to need to give your LUT a whirl at the same time as learning Resolve.

Yep, but never really got on with it because mainly having to relearn a muscle memory thing of around 2 decades. I mean I can do it in a pinch, but I’ve always preferred the half press and the AF set up for focus rather than release. But going to take the opportunity to try an older lens to see if the magic really exists with this particular unit.

GH6 noise is supposed to be slightly worse than GH5, according to CineD as far as I remember. In the shots above, the lens was mounted to the tripod, not the cameras. So it is a real difference in FOV!

If it helps,the two cameras using the same lens on a tripod collar: GH5: GH6: This was a while ago and I think the light might have changed and I adjusted a Vari-ND? Looking at the skylight the pattern of polarisation changes. But it still should serve as a sharpness/detail comparison. It's interesting to note the slightly wider FOV of the GH6! It must be a slightly bigger sensor, or it uses more of the sensor than the GH5.

Great to hear! Did you used to have a GH5 and shoot 1080p with it? The impression I had from those who tested it online was that it was virtually flawless, so if the GH6 is even better then that would be a real achievement 🙂

I still can't get over exactly how good the 1080p 4:2:2 10 bit h.264 is on the GH6. The amount of detail and information in that file is simply astounding. I know others are enamored with the 5.8K open gate v-log, but I'm enjoying the 1080p as it blows away any other Panasonic I've had before at that resolution. I imagine the Prores 422 is even better.

Try using this tool: http://aggregate.org/DIT/IBIS/ It's quite clever, and the developer explains its limitations and goes into the mechanics of IBIS in some detail.

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I mean, you don't even need to be an amazingly perfect audio engineer wizard to get the levels right for a 24bit recording. With only a little bit of experience you can get the gist of it right.

Unpopular opinion: extreme hue shift is not art. Its a fad.