Hi Lyndon, thanks to share your interesting video. Let me to ask a question please: since there are very expert people on your page, I would like to ask which profile of the GH6 you prefer for documentary shooting like mine. I've had the GH6 for a short time and I'd like to know your taste. I am attaching a link, just look at the thumbnails to understand what kind of documentaries I make: www.youtube.com/@ExploringWorldRU-vid/videos In your opinion, do you prefer shooting in V-Log and with what exposure? Or do you like most to shoot with another different profile? I do video editing myself and would like to get very good video quality. Thanks for your suggestion.
Awesome question! I think I'm very influenced by luxury, high-end wedding films... so I prefer unrealistic, punchy greens and peachy skin. So I prefer VLOG, exposed 1 to 1.5 (spot metered when I can) over for skin using Gamut.io's conversion lut as opposed to the official Lumix lut. It's totally a taste thing and I know colorists out there would probably hate it, haha. I think your videos are definitely on the side of REAL and probably need to be colored so. I watched your latest fishermen Philipines video and it looks great! The worst thing someone can do with color is have it take away from the video but it looks real and natural.. works for me tbh. PS. I'm half filipino.
When shooting with DRB, AND V-log, shoot with the meter 1.3-1.5 stops above. You can 100% pull all of the information back in post. This gives you all your bright, very detailed highlights, and prevents noise from being as present in your shadows. Only time this isn't necessary is when you AREN'T using DRB. With DRB off, the camera applies negative adjustments to the image in camera so that the base 250 ISO in V-log, will meter the same as 100 iso in the other modes ya know? If that makes sense.
The outside video was good although the dark area I couldn’t see what it was. Inside it was fine. I’m going to try it too as I’m in bright areas looking for shadows in my videos. Great thoughts 💭
Color and DR looks really nice for the format on the camera, it’s just sad that Panasonic couldn’t out cheat physics to use Gerald Undone’s words. Like you said, DR boost does give you that extra stop in highlights but you still have that trade off in shadows. After doing very similar tests to yourself here with the GH6 vs my GH5’s, it just wasn’t enough to justify the upgrade or stay with the system. Shot my first wedding on Sony and I’ll never go back! I’ll also add, I didn’t necessarily know what to expect going to Sony but wow the image quality is a huge jump. Similar to your experience, I have just been so used to bad shadows and noise, and never really understood what I was missing.
This is a bs comment. What on earth are you spying and hovering around in lumix gh6 videos and forums if you really " never want to look back ". The laws of physics are worth sh!t when you put Gerald Undone's boring studio technical explanations against real RU-vid artists like Rowe Films and Ryan Harris. The problem with Sony is that they win every comparison of low light and dynamic range ever, but you barely see any interesting footage or creative work done with it
If your having to much noise with dynamic range boost you need to try the Pixel Refresh option. This will remap the pixels black point and give you a much better look, especially in the shadows. Also yes most over expose by around a stop in Vlog.
Thanks man for the test. Quick question, did you keep iso at 800 with DRB off? I believe that is ideal with VLog unless boost is on. You may have mentioned that already.. sorry for the question if you did. Thanks!
Sorry I didn't mention it. I will next time! I was at 250. I actually didn't know 800 was ideal... I'll try that. Also I just found this today: interceptor121.com/2022/04/18/panasonic-gh6-video-and-still-performance/ What a read! GH5II performs better at lower ISOs than the GH6 with DRB off due to the less dense sensor!
@@lyndonlabayan OP is not correct. 800 is the base ISO for non-V-Log picture profiles when Dynamic Range Boost is activated. 250 is the base ISO for V-Log when DR Boost is not activated. We should always aim for base ISO (Normal: 100; V-Log: 250; Normal + DRB: 800; V-Log + DRB: 2000) for the best noise performance and dynamic range (going lower than base ISO artificially reduces exposure and does not actually save highlights). You're right in noting that DR Boost is more about dynamic range than noise performance, but as long as you keep it at base ISO and expose correctly, DR Boost actually does also slightly but measurably improve the noise floor. If you can't avoid overexposure with DR Boost on, turn it off-overexposing can only negatively impact your image. Hope this helps!
Your footage looked great and equally good regardless. You pixel peeping and talking way too much about shadow noise x point versus highlights point y and diminishing the system that you WILLINGLY chose, it sounds pedantic and , honestly, kind of jerky. Nobody forces you to chose or pick Lumix. What you require from it its absurd. The footage looks amazing in most cases and you should use your creativity, which gh6 offers you plenty of reasons and support to do so. Look at Ryan Harris and his amazing work with GH6
