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Composing my ultimate GH3 to go set. Bought the camera, decided on my audio set and now I'm looking for a cheap but good viewfinder for the GH3 (and then the rig and follow focus will follow).   I saw a lot already on the web but has somebody experiences with a good and cheap vieuw finder for the GH3?   Thanxs a lot!

Thanxs so much but for now I settle on this audio package    - zoom H1 and - 1 Rode lavalier http://www.thomann.de/nl/rode_lavalier.htm?gclid=CKjcn9LGmLUCFe3KtAodeBkASQ as my dread lavalier set   - and the senheiser senheiser mke 400 with (i hate that word) deadcat   It's for me this is now the most versatile leight weight affordable kit for on my bicycle travelers. Later on I can add a juice link and a better microphone (and recorder if really needed) for filming @home.

Mister or misses Giant Squid isn't replying to my email. So I guess I won't send money over to the US to buy some.  Giving myself a present and buying the much more expensive Rode Lavelier.

  Thanxs but the main question was about the Giant Squid Lavalier. All the sound devices you mention are to big former to take on the road.

@JCS Thank you - very helpful links. Your first link isn't working though. I will buy a better recorder like the H4N but later on. The zoom H1 v2 would function as my cheap light weight lavalier without transmitter kit. 

In my quest to assemble a cheap & light weight versatile documentary one-man handled audio set I'm thinking of this for my (wired) lavalier set up. A zoom H1 recorder with the giant squid mono lavalier, combined with a mono to stereo plug.    Anybody experiences with the giant squid mono lavalier?     http://www.giant-squid-audio-lab.com

@EOSHD Thanxs for posting this, Andrew! What settings would you suggest are best for the GH3 achieving the 'Film' Look?

@Grav... In dutch the verb used when making moving pictures :rolleyes: digital or tape is filmen If you speak about a video you would use Filmpje or Film If you go to a festival or a cinema no matter if it's digital, celluloid or whatever, you say - Ik ga naar de film...... Glad my language isn't so confusing! Now lets go ON TOPIC again!

@Gravi.. I'm sorry not a native english speaker and yeah therefore not getting your point. The festival was the International Film Festival in Rotterdam....http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/en/ And in the Netherlands that is called FILM. When making a video, you also use filming in dutch. But let's refrain from names and words and return to the film/video/making in this forum! Blanche - Now a bit confused what to use for what avoiding slapping in faces ...

@Axel thanxs I'm already working with MPG streamclip so I try that setting. @Gravi... Yesterday I went to a film festival and I bet all those films where digital so ... I also do use the word film in some cases. Let's not talk words though and stay o the topic, Who cares if we call it video making or filming. Everybody does understand what we're talking about! ;)

@Zaz and  @Ronjbase Thanxs guys will look into your suggestions this weekend.   I will have a shoot at home situation where I can carry more stuff and one for the road. So my decision is a bit dual. Nobody any thoughts on the Senheiser mke-400? If that works it would be the tool for on the road. And I'm already pretty used shooting my audio close to the subjects and then shooting adjusting B-roll to go with it. It's the way you have to work as a one woman crew.           @Dan - I never heard of these. Thanxs I will check them.

Thanxs - I have entrance to verry good lynda.com grading tutorials on FCP-X so that's got me going. I don't really know if I understand the uploading suggestion you suggest. - how do I add grain? - how do I export as ProRes master - and encode this precisly to x264. Sorry for being a bit lazy, I haven't got time and access opportunity to try it out with FCP-X right now.

* Panasonic camera (GH3) -   check * White brim hat -  Check * Have to safe another couple of years to check the LOMO anamorphic lenses I'm afraid   :rolleyes:   Thanxs for another brilliant article!

Thanxs ZAZ! I'm nearly there! Going for a mke-400 for doing interviews and a recorder + for ambience and lavaliere tracks.     But I'm not sure if I'm  going for the compact and cheaper ones like Zoom H1 or Tascam DR-08. Or the bigger and more expensive ones like the Tascam DR-40 or Zoom  H4n. And I'm also checking out these laveliers like the he Audio Technica ATR 3350 or Olympus ME-15 dasspeld microfoon voor DS2300/2, WS-300/310/320m. Some more checking up to do this weekend.

- Thanxs for your tips but I know already know scripts and are using it (except the last Panasonic Trial) - I followed a short course camera journalism and almost finished the book Directing The Documentary. Besides that I watch documentaries, analyzing the scripting and reading about a lot in my spare time. Lately I'm practicing scripting and storytelling with camera interviews. My latest is about a man who makes glass art made with a canon hf 100. - Yeah could based storage would be great but I will travel mainly in a region where the internet connections ar not that fast Central Asia, Iran, the Himalaya and parts of China. So uploading will be a pain in the a.... :rolleyes: - Gravitade. - Yeah I know, and I will create two backups all on solid disks. Thinking of sending one disk home and when it arrives home and a friend mad a back up there, deleting the back up I have on the road. (edit) O I just red some of you also suggested this. Next thing on the preparing-for-filming-list = have to find out if I can do a pre -edit and aftherwards save and re wrap my footage into comprimized stuff and reconnect it again at home. I hope it works.

Great trial @Nahua, thanxs!

Yep I already knew I can copy paste in grading and yep I also know I have to make backups of my footage on my trip. I do this at home as well. I may be a beginner on certain levels but not completely blond :P Anyway Gravitatemediagroup wonderful how you helped out and I'm looking forward to your test - hope you'll give me a notice when it's done. Thinking of doing a test myself with all the camera settings.

Thanxs Matt - you just summed up all the mics there are. I was hoping to bring it back to only one or two for on the road.  ;)   Do you have certain types (names) in your head? Is the small camera senheiser mic any good? It appeals to me because it is fed by an aaa battery (we always take a aa/aaa recharger) and has long recording life. What xtra mic would you suggest for off camera?   http://www.outletwebstore.nl/electronica/digitale-camera-digitale-fotolijst/sennheiser-mke-400-cameramicrofoon?utm_source=google-shopping&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=products&gclid=COrp-vy-67QCFW7HtAodYxsAKw

Haha not too technical. The more I learn about filming the technical it gets. Now I'm diving into the audio technics. I think you need to understand the technical part too. I will do my next project at home flat and dive into the world of color grading. Keep you posted about that. For my trip I will stick to flat AVCHD doing the rough editing parts and sorting on road and fine tune edit and post at home - but first have to cycle 14 months. Time to start preparing the trip and work out my outline script Again thanxs all for the tips!

  I do hope you remember the correct name of example one because it's brilliant (I do speak german as well, being dutch ;-)) 

  Thanxs @powderbanks but I can plug the recorder straight into the camera. With a recorder with adjustable mics I have also a broad pickup pattern. Not sure yet which setting I will buy though. Do you have any suggestion for a shotgun mic? 

I did a single shot everything in -5 and then colored & sharpned it afterwards and it also looks fab. I created a smoot look with it....guess what they called the film look :rolleyes: I guess I will shoot a trial with the different settings and then decide myself. Thanxs 4 helping! I'll switch to the other machine to give screenshots here if I can upload it directly to this website

@Nahua Please don't start a war over my question :D @Nashua With settings I ment which mbit are best to use when I need to shoot AVCHD instead off all I because of storage issues being on the road for a long while @ gravitatemediagroup Brilliant !! - but done in your camera or in post and with what? @gravitatemediagroup - why?

Thanxs! I will 'shoot from the hip' when I'm on the road a lot so nota always time to set things up. (going on a big self supported bicycle tour and making a film of it)

@Nahua what setting would you recoment when I have to shoot AVCHD concerning all the facts we spoke about in this tread?