This tip will give you a 1 stop brighter exposure, a punchier image and better colour from your GH2 / AF100 and GH1. Don’t miss it.
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Download full resolution shots from the GH2 here To get a sense of what F0.95 does set ISO to a modest 640 and shutter to 1/30 in video mode. Here, the camera already exposes a night time scene brighter than the human eye.
The Lumix 14mm F2.5 pancake is currently my favoured option on the GH2 but there are some more affordable alternatives for budget filmmakers.
[vimeo]20852835[/vimeo] I shot this last week around the Converge festival whilst in London. It was done in 3 hour sessions on two evenings with the Panasonic GH2. The story is written by one of the students, Maria (below).
For full samples by Seb Farges taken on the GH2 click here The Pentax 6mm F1.2 c-mount lens is the cheapest fast wide lens for DSLR filmmaking currently available. To use it you will need to have a Panasonic GH2, and to enable 1080p Ex-Tele mode (commonly known as 1:1 crop mode). It gives a feel similar to 8mm or 16mm film on the GH2.
I was guest of ReWo today at MBF, a rental shop in Berlin. They originally planned to do a head to head with a RED and Sony F3 but since these cameras were stuck in Frankfurt we instead had a play with the GH2 versus AF100.
[vimeo]20219795[/vimeo] Diopters are somewhat of a miracle with anamorphic lenses. My Tokina +0.4 helped cut the minimum focus distance of my Isco down to less than 4ft from 2 meters and helped sharpen it up at fast apertures like F1.4.
German website Slashcam recently tested the GH2 and AF100, and shot something which I never do – a test chart – with surprising results.