{"id":11831,"date":"2010-11-21T23:37:01","date_gmt":"2010-11-21T23:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philipbloom.net\/?p=11831"},"modified":"2011-01-26T11:13:11","modified_gmt":"2011-01-26T11:13:11","slug":"gh2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/gh2\/","title":{"rendered":"First bit of filming with Panasonic GH2 and good news about clean HDMI OUT!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"twitter-share-button\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\">Tweet<\/a><script src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I will be adding the this post over the next few days with my thoughts on the camera, but today I did my first test filming with the camera. It was cold, wet and miserable outside so instead of filming ducks and stuff I decided to film my adorable mum cooking lunch for the three of us. Of course it delayed lunch by about an hour as filming something as intricate as cooking with one camera and a small space takes time.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11833\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11833\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11833 lazyload\" title=\"photo-4\" data-src=\"http:\/\/staging.philipbloom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/photo-4-670x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"670\" height=\"500\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/photo-4-670x500.jpg 670w, https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/photo-4-310x231.jpg 310w, https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/photo-4.jpg 1800w\" data-sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 670px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 670\/500;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11833\" title=\"photo-4\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.philipbloom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/photo-4-670x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"670\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/photo-4-670x500.jpg 670w, https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/photo-4-310x231.jpg 310w, https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/photo-4.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11833\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">What a lens!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I shot in the 24mb\/s &#8220;cinema mode&#8217; with flat picture profile using one single lens. I preach this a lot. You can shoot SO much with just one standard lens. On a GH2 with the 2x crop that is a 25mm lens (35mm equivalent 50mm). Leica make a nice but pricey F1.4 but I tried my admittedly not budget too but still cheaper (but for the quality and speed it&#8217;s a bloody bargain!) brand new imported Voigtlander F0.95 25mm. Yep, F0.95. It&#8217;s simply my new favourite lens, shame it won&#8217;t go on my Canons or Leica M9. It has a beautiful look to it, great bokeh, so solid and well made and can focus as close up as a macro. LOVELY! I shot between F0.95 and F2 varying the ISO and a couple of times the shutter to 1\/100th to get exposure.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11837\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11837\" style=\"width: 402px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11837 lazyload\" title=\"kitchen\" data-src=\"http:\/\/staging.philipbloom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/kitchen-670x893.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"402\" height=\"536\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/kitchen-670x893.jpg 670w, https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/kitchen-232x310.jpg 232w, https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/kitchen.jpg 1350w\" data-sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 402px) 100vw, 402px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 402px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 402\/536;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11837 \" title=\"kitchen\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.philipbloom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/kitchen-670x893.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"402\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/kitchen-670x893.jpg 670w, https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/kitchen-232x310.jpg 232w, https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/kitchen.jpg 1350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 402px) 100vw, 402px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11837\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I used a Gitzo traveller tripod and a gorilla pod<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Lighting was all practical light except the PTC for which I used a LitePanel Micro Plus . Sound was with a Zoom Q3 using the built in mic. All the other nat sound apart from the sipping was real from the internal mic. The sipping was OTT foley on purpose.<\/p>\n<p>So full review coming up this week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Initial thoughts though&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Very easy to operate.<\/p>\n<p>LCD touch screen great, intuitive and nice resolution.<\/p>\n<p>EVF lovely, great resolution and makes handheld much easier!<\/p>\n<p>Nice to have audio meters on screen whilst recording.<\/p>\n<p>Image&#8230; gorgeous. SO MUCH better than GH1. No mud, no nasty vertical lines&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Although all shot at low ISO I did some 2500 ISO tests and there were really good! I found ISO 800 almost unusable at times on my GH1, and any underexposure in dark areas even at low ISOs&#8230;UGH, no problem now&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Digital Crop&#8230;I did not use it in this edit, but it works really well, sampling the centre of the sensor without loss of resolution.<\/p>\n<p>Moire and aliasing minimal, I couldn&#8217;t see any, check out the cats whiskers&#8230;but more tests need to be done.<\/p>\n<h3>Best of all&#8230;I have just checked this&#8230;the HDMI out is totally clean, no graphics (unless you want them) and the great thing is you can have as many graphics on the GH2 LCD without affecting the clean HDMI. Once caveat. If you use the EVF it for some reason disrupts the HDMI out if you move your eye away from it. To get round this make sure you disable auto EVF\/ LCD switching in the menus and it won&#8217;t do this&#8230;My Marshall says it is outputting 1080i 60i once recording but it certainly looks progressive rather than interlaced. I will connect it up to my Nanoflash tomorrow &#8230;we shall see! Great news though as the pre-production version I had two months ago had a record bug and timecode on the HDMI out. I asked Panasonic to remove this as we needed clean HDMI out. I think they may listened to me. Hurrah!<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Negatives&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>24mb\/s only in 24p mode, 17mb\/s in 25p mode. BOO Panasonic, sort it out for us EU folk who need the highest bitrate for broadcast!! Please?<\/p>\n<p>Focus assist still a bit fiddly.<\/p>\n<p>Internal mic a bit lackluster, but still miles better than the Canon one.<\/p>\n<p>Better than hacked GH1&#8230;yep for me it is, as the hacked GH1 no matter how high the bit rate goes it still SUCKS in low light with those damn vertical lines. None here and I shot at 2500 ISO today (but not in this piece). Again, I need to do a full test soon before giving my definitive opinion. But so far I love the damn thing, especially with the lens from heaven, the Voigtlander 25mm F.95. Those two were destined to be together! Angels sung when I brought them together!<\/p>\n<p>So in the meantime enjoy this cute little short of my adorable mum cooking lunch! A different test for me! Graded with magic bullet looks (i will probably tweak this with more time as I knocked this edit together in half and hour as I need to go to bed, as sleep and I have been strangers recently!) You can get 20% this awesome product at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redgiantsoftware.com\">RedGiantSoftware.com<\/a> with code bloom20 at checkout<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I also have two more reviews coming of cameras that I bought. The Canon 60D which is simply bloody awesome. Miles better than the 550D\/ T2i and only one feature away from being better than the 7D! Also the Nikon D7000&#8230;.lots of things going for it but a couple of operation issues are bugging the hell out of me. Nice image though&#8230;I don&#8217;t want to do a review of the Nikon until I have something half decent shot with it&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.philipbloom.net\/movember\">you can check out my Canon 60D stuff on my Movember page!!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So hold off on too many questions just yet. I am most likely going to answer them later this week once I get my review done! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" data-src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/17062701?color=942e31\" width=\"640\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/17062701\">Home Cooking&#8230;avec le GH2!<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/philipbloom\">Philip Bloom<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My mum has kindly written out the recipe after a number of requests! Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><em>Ingredients:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Olive oil<br \/>\n4 chicken escalopes (preferably free range) flattened to really thin<br \/>\nBreadcrumbs<br \/>\nOne beaten egg<br \/>\nPiri piri spices<br \/>\nSpaghetti for 4 depending on appetite<br \/>\nOne tube to one and half concentrated tomato puree, depending on how tomatoey you like it.<br \/>\nChilli oil<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Heat water in a big casserole dish for the spaghetti, add some olive oil to stop water frothing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>While heating, have two plates ready, one with the breadcrumbs and the other with the beaten egg.<\/p>\n<p>Flatten your escalopes in cling film one by one.<\/p>\n<p>In a large non stick frying pan, dribble some olive oil ( you probably will need to add more as you go along ), dip one escalope at the time in beaten egg, then breadcrumbs and put in frying pan on medium heat, repeat process for the others . Shake piri piri spices over the escalopes and do the same when you turn them over.<\/p>\n<p>This will not take long, may be 10 minutes on medium heat.<\/p>\n<p>When cooked dribble some lemon \u00a0over, then put in a dish and cover with aluminium foil. Keep warm in the oven.<\/p>\n<p>When water has boiled, put your spaghetti and cook according to packet, you could use fresh if you wanted.<br \/>\nWhen cook, drain in colander and put back in casserole. Over a very low heat, add the tomato puree (not ketchup!) with salt and pepper if desired, stir thoroughly, add some more olive oil so it is not dry and the final touch is some chilli oil. stir more.<\/p>\n<p>Serve your escalopes with the spaghetti with lemon on the side.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Voila, bon appetit xx<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/gh2\/\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground:  !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 100% !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,31,62],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[3727,3723,3718,3717,3722,3729,3733,3728,3725,3734,3726,3735,3736,3724,3719,3721,3730,3720,3731,3732],"class_list":["post-11831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camera-reviews","category-dslrs","category-gh1-gh2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11831"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=11831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}