Panasonic GH4 4K

[Paul J]

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Some very impressive test footage from a 4K Panasonic GH4 has finally surfaced. This is ISO 800-1600 and ungraded footage. Truly incredible.

 

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[imsilly]

My initial instinct is that it has probably been graded. I would guess shooting at night with lots of different artificial light sources would demand a grade of some kind to make sure the colours were fine. They look good to me, so I guess the footage might have gone through some post production work. Maybe not a full grade, I dunno. What grading means to some, is different to others. If it is totally ungraded and that is auto white balance at work and in camera processing to reduce the noise I am impressed. I know my GH3 is usable at 1600, but not totally noise free.

 

What they did is hard to tell, did they ad noise reduction? Maybe, but should it even matter? If they can get a good result with no or minimal post production techniques that means you can too.

 

I love my GH3, it's not the best with low light compared to a real video camera or full frame Canon DSLR, but it's better in other ways. I think the GH series is a great line of cameras.

Edited April 4, 2014 by imsilly

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