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David Cole of BeamPath, the 3D rig builders provided this footage. This comparison is just for fun.

The original footage from the Scarlet RAW file was flat, and the GH2 is far more baked-in (like a JPEG). I've lightly graded both images to try and match them. (I am sure a professional colourist could do a better job).

Both held up well to grading, the GH2 footage did not fall apart as much as expected. Though the Scarlet's big strength is in how much latitude it has in both directions high and low.

Considering one is a $700 camera interchangeable lens body with equally cheap accessories and the other a $10,000 pro digital cinema body, the small GH2 is doing a simply incredible job at it's price point. Of course it is not better than a Scarlet, but for the price it is astonishing what you get, at least for projects which don't require heavy grading, 4K or higher frame rates for slow mo.

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Full blog post here: eoshd.com/content/6946/gh2-split-screen-versus-red-scarlet

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  • Raja Sandhu 1 month ago
    the little camera that could -- nice post, thank you so much.

    Great web site you got going there too :)
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  • Hi, can you link to the original footage as well from the original user?
  • Andrew Reid plus 4 weeks ago
    Have done in the blog SeƱor.
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  • David Whalen plus 1 month ago
    go out and shoot a film! everybody so crazy about this and that camera and here is a camera for the everyone good enough to shoot anything on. thank you. hopefully young artists won't get caught up in all the newest this and that, but just focus on film-making with this little cam
  • Andrew Reid plus 4 weeks ago
    I hope so. Hire an actor instead of a $16,000 camera, for sure.
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  • Ryan Farnes 1 month ago
    3 thoughts.

    1) The web is the great equalizer. For better or for worse.

    2) I wanted to see him take off. (or did he just land)

    3) Those kids on bikes...what has become of the younger generation? "Duh, I'm just gonna ride my bikes next to his parachute envelope...I can squeeze by"

    Hehe. Nice test.
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  • Roberto Miller plus 1 month ago
    Affirmation, Andrew. Glad I got this camera a year ago and shot a film with it. Very excited about what I see in post now.
  • Andrew Reid plus 4 weeks ago
    Let me know how it goes, very excited to see Mandorla
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  • Ludovic Jolivet plus 1 month ago
    If only GH2 would allow custom picture profile like "Cinestyle" or "Marvel Cine"! Love my Gh2 but wish I could lower this damn contrast more... especially a pain with high contrast settings. Oh well maybe one day.
  • Christopher Mayer 4 weeks ago
    transcode with 5d2rgb then.
  • Andrew Reid plus 4 weeks ago
    That does help. Quicktime based encoders crush the blacks even more.
  • Ludovic Jolivet plus 4 weeks ago
    Thank you! I'll try that.
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  • Totally agree with Ludovic. The only problem with GH2 is blacks.
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  • K.M.Lo 4 weeks ago
    GH2 nostalgia setting has about 10stop dynamic range, and Cinestyle simply boost up the balck to grey instead of giving more dynamic range -- for the sake of applying LUT in mixed footage with S-log or whater camera's LOG.

    in short, if you can work with it with careful expsore and color grading to pull up the dark detail. this is a super camera for $600USD.
  • Andrew Reid plus 4 weeks ago
    Overexposing in Cinema mode might be the answer here, I've been doing some research. Cinema is not a nice profile for blacks but it protects the highlights to such an extent than you can over expose to bring up the shadows without destroying the highlights as much.
  • nice information, I don't know why but I'm not about using Cinema film mode... highlights seems yellowish.
    Always go back to smooth or Nostalgic. But I may try your technic.
  • Andrew Reid plus 3 weeks ago
    After testing I prefer Smooth. Don't like Cinema mode, it isn't good for much!
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  • John Doe 4 weeks ago
    aw cmon this is blasfemy just even put this thing together in the same post name! XD
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  • Gianmarco Oliva 4 weeks ago
    a simple question... using REAL tiffen ultra contrast 3 or low contrast before in camera coding may help blacks? :) thanx.
  • Paul Herbert 4 weeks ago
    I'd really like to see that test as well!

    The footage looks promising. I'd love to see what an ultra con would do to the image...
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  • Edgar 4 weeks ago
    NIce,
    What path you are use for GH2?
    thanks.
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  • Zigmarz 4 weeks ago
    GH2 has a kick-ass detail.
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  • Gianmarco Oliva 4 weeks ago
    if i set a gamma like "cinema" on my plasma the "jpeg" effect of gh2 is virtually 0! try! amazing experiments with contrast in progress...hihihi
  • Andrew Reid plus 4 weeks ago
    Yes it's true, a good display minimises DSLR shortcomings rather than amply - and DSLR footage looks worse on a computer screen.
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  • Gianmarco Oliva 4 weeks ago
    the lens are tokina 11-16 f2.8 ? have you seen kineraw s8!? it rocks!! Who want scarlet anymore !? hahahaha
    i hope in low price, with coumputar 1/2" lens, demos in vimeo. ciao
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  • Justin Mansfield 3 weeks ago
    Are all GH2s cameras "hackable"? I know with the GH1 that some models after a certain serial number are not hackable. Thanks.
  • Andrew Reid plus 3 weeks ago
    Yes Justin all hackable.
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  • Sinan Cile 2 weeks ago
    i just bought gh2 and install 176mbps firmware, it's amazing
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  • Rick Tejada-Flores 5 days ago
    Which hack and bitrate is the GH2 footage shot with?
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