GF1 video quality tips (and hack) help

You should really use the hack. It delivers insanely good material with any good lens.

Don't use any special settings in the camera. You can always sharpen in post, but this is really not necessary. With the hack the GF/GH1 deliver really good video compared to the cost of the camera.

And now the manual settings in GF1 bring it to a whole new level. Before it would use too much "gain", as in up the ISO automatically. Now you have total control over your filming  

If you want proof, you can just shoot a video clip with your GF1 and 20mm and then shoot it again with hacked firmware. The whole process should only take 30 mins max.

 

This link might help in comparing.

 

So the manual controls are now working with the GF1 hack.  

Think I'm going to have to take the plunge.

 

Be sure to let us know how you get on

 

Can someone clear up something for me regards CAF and the 20mm panasonic lens please.

When i use the 20mm on my GF-1 , it does autofocus when shooting video , is this not CAF?

 

I would be interested to see a before-after comparison. I have not seen
one yet.
The most demanding scenes are wind blowing on the leaves of the trees,
grass patches, cornfields.
:smile:

 

It is, but it is really slow and chunky compared to the 14-140 (which is video optimized) or even the other Panny zoom lenses, not to mention noisy. Panny does not consider it fast enough to support AFC in regular photography modes, and it is thus disabled.

 

Ah , I see now - just had never tried video with my other lenses - they are indeed a lot faster focusing. Cheers.