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Shot in South London and the South Bank with a 75% finished Panasonic AF100 and Lumix and Nikon lenses.

Totally ungraded but obviously compressed as is the MP4 download.

Read more on my blog here! philipbloom.net/2010/10/19/af100/

Music by Shigeru Umebayashi
"George's Waltz"

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Darryl Gregory 1 year ago

Looks great Philip, Thank you!
Now off to read the specs on your blog :)
Ryan Lightbourn 1 year ago

Looks great for raw footage...I think I'll stick with my 5D Mark II because of the AF100's price tag though!
John Holiday 1 year ago

it's worth it with a more stable image.
Jon Coy 1 year ago

I've been listening to this track (and the whole score, really) a lot lately; great choice! The footage looks terrific and is really selling me on this one. I've been waiting for Panasonic to step it up and it looks like they're bringing their "A-game" with this camera. Nice work, Philip!
Ben Bunch 1 year ago

Wonderful!

Any chance of getting some raw .MTS files to play with?
Philip Bloom 1 year ago

i shall try
ps 1 year ago

lovely poem, glad to be home...
Rick Symonds 1 year ago

Did you feel that the 80-200 needed some extra support or was it fine mounted without rails?
Brian DeFrees 1 year ago

2:43 - How critics feel about the new AF100.

P.S. - nice footage!
Sean O'Reilly 1 year ago

LOL nice!!
John Holiday 1 year ago

yes true;)
Artwerk Media 1 year ago

Thanks for taking the time to do this Phil. Happy I didn't see anything that makes me want to have one!

Stick with my 5D and save $$$!
Villanovision Films 1 year ago

How much did your full rig cost?
Artwerk Media 1 year ago

Why? What's your point?
Ronald Carrion. 1 year ago

How much did your mic cost?
Philip Bloom 1 year ago

1080p overcrank is pretty special!!
Artwerk Media 1 year ago

Agreed Philip but might not be enough to make me switch systems..
Artwerk Media 1 year ago

Mic cost 200.00....
Andrew Reid 1 year ago

Nice stuff, captures the 'South' very well! Good camera, very similar in image quality to the hacked GH1 (I think) but so much extra that makes it worth the extra money for certain people. I personally am sticking with DSLRs but the XLR jacks, slow motion and cropping for 2.35:1 on screen are good.

EVF is not final I hear.

Did you miss the dynamic range of your 5D Mark II or was it pretty good with highlights and shadow detail?
Philip Bloom 1 year ago

that's good news about the EVF. I will amend that.

I really have no clue what the DR is of this camera. Too many variables that i don't know in the menu to get the best image...something to find out over the next two months
Andrew Reid 1 year ago

Cool. It looks good though - that's what matters. For future reference GH1 was about 9.5 stops and GH2 is 10.5. 35mm film is 15.

Don't like too much HDR. I like contrasty light and dark shadows. Like you get in Manchester before being murdered by a chav.
huw jenkins 1 year ago

u mentioned the lowest iso being 200. is this because of the new sensor, or do you think that the gf1 can be shot at 200 instead of 100 with absolutley no noise difference when shooting video?
Philip Bloom 1 year ago

i really know so little about the tech aspects of the camera. When I go see the factory i will find out a lot more
MILapse 1 year ago

This piece drips with visual lushness The overcrank is killer. Great work again sir!
Philip Bloom 1 year ago

thanks mate. really appreciate it.
Ronald Carrion. 1 year ago

Was the slow motion made on camera or in post?
MILapse 1 year ago

I believe the AF100 has a native 60P setting!
Philip Bloom 1 year ago

couldn't find a 1080p 60p in menu, just 720p 60p
Mario Rodriguez 1 year ago

Then the slow motion was done in 720P?
Philip Bloom 1 year ago

no 1080p 25p 50fps overcrank...all explained in review.
Jonathan Pellicano 1 year ago

amazing video , all your videos are amazing
Yves Simard 1 year ago

Great piece - what a honey of a camera. Speechless. Good write up too, nice to see some comprehensive testing.
McGee Digital Media Inc. 1 year ago

Was that first shot with the 7-14mm? Great stuff Philip!
Mike Collins 1 year ago

Nice edit Phil. I think the footage looks good. I'm sticking with my 5D/7D also but this could find it's way into my kit.
Angeline Gragasin 1 year ago

02:43
Billet Video Studios 1 year ago

Ang how do u do the link wit a certain time of a video?
Angeline Gragasin 1 year ago

Just type in the timecode, it's automatic.
Philip Bloom 1 year ago

I like to capture people at this most natural as well as the odd posed shots. These guys were about as unaware of me as possible
Victor Currie 1 year ago

Hopefully they were supposed to be together. "Hi Honey, look at this interesting shot of you I just saw on Mr. Bloom's Vimeo page!."
Angeline Gragasin 1 year ago

My thoughts EXACTLY...!
Maarten Toner 1 year ago

haha so I was not alone in this...

ages ago I was kicked out of restaurant for shooting stuff inside because a CEO was having diner with his "secretary"
Angeline Gragasin 1 year ago

You never know the circumstances surrounding an intimate moment like that. That could be their first kiss; that could be their last kiss. And now it's captured on video for the entire world to see...
Philip Bloom 1 year ago

it's a kiss in public. They are not shy, they love each other clearly and that is beautiful. It does not look seedy, it looks natural and they look happy. That is why I put it in.
Angeline Gragasin 1 year ago

It's a beautiful shot, Philip. I'm glad you put it in.
Billet Video Studios 1 year ago

Nice Philip!
MrMoe 1 year ago

Really Nice.

Any chance of a HDSDI capture with ZEISS CP lens test? Thanks Phil. You rock~ Cheers.
Philip Bloom 1 year ago

sorry I don't have the camera anymore!
pelenguino 1 year ago

awesome Test shot. Love how you tell a story, from day to night.
Great job.
gary 1 year ago

Great job philip,my place is in kennington, clouse to brixton you was around filming,great
The Film Artist 1 year ago

Nice work Philip you really captured the busy multicultural buzz of South London around 1:11 The picture is very smooth, love all the slow mo stuff and music! :) I recently shot this video around some of the inner city estates in South London, not too far from Brixton vimeo.com/14909617
joe santarromana 1 year ago

Love it, want it. want my dslr too but still i want it
Patrick Zadrobilek 1 year ago

Thanks for the hard work, Philip! You live and work for us - your community! I'm appreciate what you do very much! Thanks! The Panni is defenitly a runner for me, but can you explane the little softness of your testshots? is it the AVCHD codec or problems with focusing? I would have expected a little sharper shots of the camera.
Philip Bloom 1 year ago

i had the sharpness turned down to -7...that is what the camera was given to me as...i had so little time to fiddle with it and it sounded about right. When I get the camera in two weeks i will try different sharpness settings...
VTK Productions 1 year ago

Hey. You're really a great cinematographer, every shot is so well composed. Awesome work. I've read a bio about you but nothing about your earlier life. Did you go to film school or are you completely self taught?
Philip Bloom 1 year ago

it should all be there...i was a news cameraman for 17 years. no film school
VTK Productions 1 year ago

Oh I see. I guess I just expected something more (like a film school, childhood filmmaking, some deep seated family film history, etc).
Maarten Toner 1 year ago

lol still people who expect more from you eh Phil?

yeah news rambo that's not real work :P
Philip Bloom 1 year ago

check out my blog in more detail, especially the personal blogs and you will get to know me more...news was best training in the world.
Steven Wetrich 1 year ago

are there any lenses with zooming autofocus?
Philip Bloom 1 year ago

nope sorry
Danny Cooke 1 year ago

Great work as usual.. I cannot wait to see your production model tests in Kyoto!
Joran Maaswinkel 1 year ago

I'm so jealous about this movie :)) Well done
Leopold Schmidt 1 year ago

beauty from the beginning to the end, especially the beginning is great!
Arif Rasib 1 year ago

nice work philip.
id love to see some more hand held shots (without an image stabilizing lens) comparison with dslr shots. i would stick with my dslr's as the price tag is huge, panasonic have opened a new window for camcorders, cant wait to see what Sony and canon come out with. thanks for the review.
PS would be nice to download some raw footage to play with.
Ben Sengsouvanh 1 year ago

That was really nice, I definitely want to get my hands on this camera one day when I have money.
Cristina Valdivieso + Jon Connor 1 year ago

Great work! Outstanding job Phil! I can't put my finger on what it is exactly, the quality of the footage is great but, I still prefer something look-wise from the DSLR's. Not sure if that makes sense. Thanks for getting this shot and cut so fast!
Nino Leitner 1 year ago

I had the exact same thought.

I agree, very impressive images from a broadcast camcorder, but it looks more like a mixture of DSLR-type footage and what we are used to from Panny's HVX-/HPX-type camcorders (which isn't bad either - but different).

I expected that, and part of it might be because of AVCHD bitrate - I'm looking forward to the Nanoflash shots as GH1 footage also benefitted massively from the higher bitrate with the firmware hack.

Outstanding Philip, I know how tough it is to write such a review and shoot and edit a piece like that in such a tiny time slot - went through the same experience with my pre-production T2i/550D test short "February". And now PLEASE relax a bit and unwrap your XBox Games :)
Philip Bloom 1 year ago

It's a very panny looking image...i will be able to try different settings in Osaka week after next...one full day with camera was not long enough!
Sebastian TR 1 year ago

Great visuals Phil - Panny looks good - looking forward to seeing the Japan tests / different sharpness settings.
will you be taking the nanoflash with you ?

so far so good!
FlwriderTV 1 year ago

same question above, how did you do the slow motion?
Great piece!
thanks
Philip Bloom 1 year ago

Overcrank in camera..loads of info in my blog
ANDREW WEHDE 1 year ago

all the tele stuff looked great, my concern was the first few shots that i assume were shot on the pani 7-14mm.. You could really see the image stretch with the pan movements. Was this something that you noticed a lot with the wide lenses. Did you find the 2x crop a real pain in the arse? I know you touched on this a little in your blog, would love to hear more. I am afraid the 2x crop is going to be a big factor...
Philip Bloom 1 year ago

on a wide lens like this at 7mm (14mm 35mm equivalent) moving the shot will give you distortion. If I had zoomed in more would have been less...2x crop is a pain on the wide end for sure.
Erick Flores Garnelo 1 year ago

this panasonic camera looks great
Josh Gooden 1 year ago

Looks great Philip! Might try and sell the EX1 while I still can. Based on what you saw with the pre-production model, do you think it could replace an EX1/EX3? Obviously they have different markets, but at this point I was only using the EX1 for wides really and 5D's for everything else.
Daniel Apollon 1 year ago

yes I think it can replace the EX1, which I had and did not like its Sony washed out colors. I also think the AF100 will be so much sharper than my 5D Mark II for shooting wide landscapes. My experience is that shooting far details at f/5.6-f/8 with the Canon USM S L 24-105mm is resolving much less detail than shooting the same details with my hacked GH1 and the Panasonic Lumix 14-45mm zoom at the same iris value. So I expect the AF100 to be one more hack better for wide landscape shots with very little aliasing on far tiny details due to a better OPF. I begin to dislike more and more the aliasing from my 5D MkII. It has ruined so many decent shots and I do not want to spend the rest of my life, shooting absurdish 1 cm shallow xcus. I have therefore reasonably great expectancies from the AF100 release. I also expect Panny to release some fully fast fast aperture zoom f/2.0-2.8 minimum in the 14-145mm range. What I will miss is the dial inn digital rack focus of Sony EX1 EX3.
Adam Ouellette 1 year ago

Wonderful as always Phillip! Looking forward to seeing how this camera impacts the HDSLR market, it seems like Panasonic could really steal the market from Canon, unless Canon has some secret weapon they have yet to say anything about.
joe santarromana 1 year ago

Something seems different in how you're shooting with the AF101 than when you shoot with HDSLR's. It feels less from the hip with the AF101 less immediate but with strong intention. Like when someone who shoots 35mm still photography moves on to a medium or large format camera.
Philip Bloom 1 year ago

Just a different style on this piece. More like my South Bank short shot on the Ex1 and Letus. Check it out. It's on Vimeo
Butta Blog 1 year ago

great vid, check out our channel too
vimeo.com/channels/135995
robotboot 1 year ago

camera is a step in the right direction. wish it had a little higher bit rate.
Justin Ho 1 year ago

Spectacular as always, 2:43 to 2:48 was perfect!
Tom Hackbarth 1 year ago

definitely my favorite of your work
Ken S Yap 1 year ago

Salton Sea Beach made me buy a Canon 550D.
South London is gonna make me break my kid's piggy bank.
Darn it Mr. Bloom, you make good pictures... and thanks for sharing your findings. Will be looking forward for your shoot in Japan.
Filenstyle 1 year ago

I've already seen other clip taken with AF100. I love the WB with pure white, not color dominance in high contrast or low light scenes.
Can you tell me more about AWB or manual setting?
editman 1 year ago

Any FPN?
Bass Pig 1 year ago

Overall, not bad looking footage, except for some CA on a few scenes and blown highlights at 1:18.. looks like about 80-10 f-stops of DR to me. Needs a lot of help in post to make images really luscious, if this is the neutral raw footage. The fish DoF footage at :41 looks to be shot with a fairly long lens. What focal length was that shot at? Certainly, this may attract some of the DSLR crowd, depending on how good its audio capabilities are, but I'm not excited about the color from any of the single imager cameras I've seen, including RED.
Benjamin Briceno 1 year ago

is this the nanoflash footage?
Philip Bloom 1 year ago

No mate ,check out the blog.
Benjamin Briceno 1 year ago

oh ok, I actually read the whole blog a few hours after it was posted, hahah I am excited about this camera! I guess I just over looked that part! Great job, Philip!
Mario Rodriguez 1 year ago

I did not resit the temptation of checking back your San Francisco's People. There is not a comparison. 5D is sharper and a beauty. May be the lenses, the camera or London´s air?
Paul Hamilton 1 year ago

This short film has a sense of ease that is vibrant and satisfying... so beautiful to see you cast your gaze on your home. I love the affection between the kissing couple, and the use of diagonals in that clip!
Cheers, Paul in Chicago
Bart van der Gaag 1 year ago

You don't ask an author what typewriter he used to write a book, it's pretty much the same with you. A good photographer uses his tools well. And you're a tool. No, I mean you're a great photographer:)
Amila C. Kumarasinghe 1 year ago

Amazing. no words to say about non graded footage. definitely this will be the next cam on mine.

I think Canon people still thinking about Film camera with interchangeble lenses, may be next 1 or 2 year, they will be do some more. lol . . . (my thoughts).

Anyway, AF100 all the way . .
James Benet 1 year ago

I can't quite put it in words but WOW, this is some of your best work, I kind of find the images inspiring compared to my 7D. I am sick and tired of Moire, Now what I want to know is is if the GH2 will be equivalent in the moire dept!
Adam 1 year ago

In the words of Mick Jagger - 'I liked it, I liked it...alot'
Zack McTee 1 year ago

2:47 is too funny
Greg Filipkowski Vispol.tv 1 year ago

not bad
Hyperfokal 1 year ago

cool stuff, I like that :-)

and besides your great camera and editing work,that camera really looks promising
John Gevers 1 year ago

I really enjoyed your footage and loved your choice of music. Your review of the new camera was exceedingly helpful, too. Thank you!