Comments on: Panasonic Lumix GH1 first impressions and first footage

By: bstone

bstone — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 13:24:30 +0000

Bur Prores is such a great codec to edit with

By: LSocorro

LSocorro — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 01:26:34 +0000

You have to search in its menu (page 4 I guess) and turn on the option: Shoot without lens.
After that it works perfect with any manual lens, I use mine with nikkors, and its a dream come true.

By: Destiny

Destiny — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:15:37 +0000

I get that to, what up with that. Upgraded to the new hack but have not fired it up yet. I guess Hacker 13 has corrected all the problems that Philip saw when he first used the camera about 4 months ago. Some of the GH1 users are saying that the video out of the GH1 has really improved and rivals that of the 5d but doesnt have all the issueS that the 5d has. The main problem that I am having is with the Composer not seeing the AVCHD footage. I used a converter program from Panasonic and I just get error messages, so that is a real pain but the Composer 5.0 takes it in natively and also Redcode, so when I upgrade it should take care of that-HOPEFULLY!

By: Frans Stracensky

Frans Stracensky — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:00:16 +0000

Hi,

So I bought one of these to use my many arri & C mount lenses & I can’t get past the notice that says check lens for proper mounting. So how do I program the camera to accept these lenses. Got nowhere w Pana. or B&H where I bought it. Can you help or anyone else? Frans filmit2001@yahoo.com THX!!

By: pbloom

pbloom — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:23:07 +0000

i wish…i asked!

By: Lance

Lance — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 14:24:36 +0000

Hi Philip,

I bought a GH1 and the 20 mm lens and a Rhode mic (all at B & H). Love it. Tell Panasonic all because of you. I picked it over the Canons you recommend because of the EVF, articulating screen, smaller size and less $$$. Maybe I should have waited for the new Canon T2i, but then I would have needed the Zacuto VF and then it gets bigger. Took it to Spain and hit the streets of Madrid – not quite “Madrid’s People” but fun none-the-less.

The one annoying thing is the weak 1080/24P video, I see interlacing all the time. It’s not really ‘p’ is it.

If I were the god of firmware upgrades I would fix that, drop the silly motion JPEG stuff (way too much memory), and add more frame rates at 720p, especially for travel.

You seem to be in touch with Panasonic – any hope of getting these firmware upgrades?

Cheers,

Lance

By: Emmanuel

Emmanuel — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:38:57 +0000

I purchased the 20mm (40mm/35mm equivalent) pancake lens and believe me or not, the GH1 fits in the pocket of my jacket.
Now I have my sport camera with an amazing lens and the compactness I always was looking for.
I keep the 14-140mm for holidays, and the 20mm for daily use.

By: Vangelis

Vangelis — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:43:57 +0000

would you recommend it to shoot music videos? If you had to chose between the gh1 and canon xh-a1 (without any 35mm adaptor) what would you choose?

By: Daniel Kwiatkowski

Daniel Kwiatkowski — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:36:25 +0000

Shooting video with a high shutter speed is more of an artistic gripe than a technical one. When shooting at 60th of a second you get a certain amount of motion blur that appears ‘natural’.

Shooting at much lower shutter speeds (24th, 12th, 6th, or half of a second) will give you a steadily increasing amounts of motion blur and make the video look unnatural. (but will also give you a cool effect if that’s what you’re going for.) Of course, be aware that 24th of a second will be the bottom limit unless you want to mess with the frame rate.

Shooting at much higher shutter speeds (500th, 1000th, what have you.) will elliminate motion blur almost entirely and can give you a disconcerting strobe effect.

If you have a strobe light you can try this as an experiment: find a willing accomplice and have them tear around your room for a bit. Then Turn out the lights and set your strobe light to flash 24times per second and repeat.

Even though the strobe light is illuminating your compatriot at 24 times per second (same frame rate as movie film) the movement will appear unnatural. Why? Because the extremely fast flash of the strobe has eliminated motion blur.

By: Antonio J. Bazalo

Antonio J. Bazalo — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:43:06 +0000

Hi Phillip:

Most of GH1 users are having problem with banding noise when record HD video. This problem is actually discusing at http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=174654 but we have not got any solution yet. I have seen your videos with GH1 and I don’t see any noise. Did you have the ‘banding noise’ problem? How did you solve it?

Thank you. Regards from Barcelona.