{"id":2953,"date":"2009-05-12T19:16:56","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T19:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philipbloom.co.uk\/?p=2953"},"modified":"2010-04-11T23:43:51","modified_gmt":"2010-04-11T21:43:51","slug":"panasonic-lumix-gh1-in-joshua-tree-and-pl-lenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/panasonic-lumix-gh1-in-joshua-tree-and-pl-lenses\/","title":{"rendered":"Panasonic Lumix GH1 in Joshua Tree and PL lenses!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I have been hired by Panasonic to make them a nice little short to show at the European press launch of the GH1 on May 21st at Panasonic HQ. Originally I had hoped to do this filming in Hawaii, but I had so much on it was difficult, although I did manage to knock off a quick slow motion test during a sunset which you can see here<\/a>. That was just knocked off quickly over an hour using nothing but the stock lens, no filters, no tripod, just a little gorillapod!<\/p>\n

This was a far more ambitious shoot, I had the Genus Matte box and support rails<\/a>. A set of very cool 4×4 filters courtesy of Carey Duffey of Tiffen\/ <\/a>South London Filters<\/a>. Carey put together a pack perfect for filming in the desert. A .6 ND grad. a 1.2 IR ND, a 2.1 hot mirror ND (7 stops!), an antique suede and a\u00a0polarizer. A really cracking set of filters.<\/p>\n

But not only that, Illya Friedman of\u00a0http:\/\/hotrodcameras.com\/<\/a> (his new site\u00a0launches\u00a0on the 19th May) joined up with me with his brand new prototype PL mount adaptor for cinemas lenses so you can actually put them onto this little camera! Naughty man that he is, he actually stuck a chart in front of my lens and made me shoot it. He knows I don’t film charts!!<\/p>\n

I knew the kit lens performed well but as this camera is seriously being considered by indie film makers. So, \u00a0just how well would it perform with lenses that cost over $10,000 each!?<\/p>\n

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Also along for the ride were Jake Carpenter<\/a> who was documenting the shoot for me on my little Canon Vixia. Jehu Garcia of Jag35 <\/a>came along too (I will have a special\u00a0interview\u00a0with him coming soon!) and David Aldrich<\/a> who makes the $100 follow focus was there too! So it was a bit of team! We also bumped into Bui brothers <\/a>at the end of the shoot too, they had a Canon 5dMk2.<\/p>\n

I can’t post the finished edit until the 21st May after the press event, at the same time I will post the making of. In the meantime I wanted to share with you some screen grabs, some shot with the stock lens with full Genus set up and some with the PL lenses. We had Zeiss Ultra Primes, from 16mm to 85mm. They were all T1.9<\/p>\n

Now the stock lens is great, it has\u00a0incredible\u00a0auto focus features including facial recognition and tracking which is\u00a0completely\u00a0silent, optical stabilisation and a nice range (35mm\u00a0equivalent\u00a028-240mm) although understandably for such a range and price it is quite slow at f4.<\/p>\n

I was really happy with the shots we got, both with the stock lens and the PL lenses. Illya’s adaptor worked a treat , the only thing was focusing was much harder as the zoom in extender didn’t seem to work without the stock lens.<\/p>\n

Have a look at some screen grabs from both:<\/p>\n

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