Sorry to burst all of your bubbles but... this is not the holy grail it sounds to be.
I was originally planning on buying a Canon 5D Mark II. But I was hesitant after reading this, because it offers 3 things important to me:
1) 24p shooting 2) 60p shooting (good for slowmo stuff) 3) A much cheaper pricetag (probably will be $1500 with lens, vs. $3500 for 5dmkii w/ kit IS USM lens)
So, instead of peeing my pants like almost everybody else who has heard about this GH1, I decided to try to find a sample of video from it...
The verdict is not good. At first glance, it seems okay. It's hard for me to tell what is a result of video compression/encoding (ie. do these clips look just like straight out of the camera?), but the refresh/rolling shutter are HORRIBLE, and the banding isn't too pretty, either
Looks like, unfortunately, the most expensive camera (5DMKII) still seems to give the best performance (better than the more affordable D90 or GH1)
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Sorry to burst all of your bubbles but... this is not the holy grail it sounds to be.
I was originally planning on buying a Canon 5D Mark II. But I was hesitant after reading this, because it offers 3 things important to me:
1) 24p shooting
2) 60p shooting (good for slowmo stuff)
3) A much cheaper pricetag (probably will be $1500 with lens, vs. $3500 for 5dmkii w/ kit IS USM lens)
So, instead of peeing my pants like almost everybody else who has heard about this GH1, I decided to try to find a sample of video from it...
and I did:
http://www.slashgear.com/panasonic-micro-43-gh1-and-14-140mm-video-feature-hands-on-%E2%80%93-af-and-manual-mode-tests-0736780/
The verdict is not good. At first glance, it seems okay. It's hard for me to tell what is a result of video compression/encoding (ie. do these clips look just like straight out of the camera?), but the refresh/rolling shutter are HORRIBLE, and the banding isn't too pretty, either
Looks like, unfortunately, the most expensive camera (5DMKII) still seems to give the best performance (better than the more affordable D90 or GH1)
*sigh*
That's a bummer, but the camera used IS a pre-prod model so maybe there's some kinks to be ironed out. One can hope.