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Good concept executed exceptionally well! That was really good especially for the 48 hour time limit!

Great job, Bridget and Patrick!

Loved it!

Amazing film - best 48 I have ever seen!!!

Awesome:)

Bridget has apparently played a space pirate before! :)

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Thanks for doing this video. A very interesting test and also interesting results!

That was really helpful, great comparison!

Really well made. Still a better dinner party than Thanksgiving with my in laws lol.

This is a great video! Thanks. Nothing worse than a "low light" comparison that doesn't go over ISO 800. Thanks for going hard core.

idea pretty much makes sense AND, you kept me entertained with your presentation. Ingredients for a good tutorial:)

If u give me 3 FS5 with 3 complete Zeiss optics set plus one ticket to the White House with free recording clearence on election day, I still take the one JVC plus one free lunch at Burger King.... Jocking. Love ur background through the window.

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LOVE THIS!!!!!!

FS-5 looked terrible, that shocked me.

I'm a filmmaker. in school with these shots we were told to never shoot an interview in front of a window if it's daylight out. always keep the light behind you.

NICE!!! Oooo scary

The FS5 could do much better than that! You can over-expose the highlights by about 2 stops (use zebras at 90-95% for slog3 and wait for them to show up on the sky) You can pull all the info back no problem

Please consider another stressful test case - indoor gym, ill lit, basketball game. Good quality is being able to see the seams on a moving ball when footage is paused. This is my best so far: youtube watch? v=IIZFWtGl2WI And in a well lit arena, still a challenge: youtube watch? v=yjj8kwNL5QY My camera is JVC GY-HM170.

Thanks for taking the time to do this test. One of the most interesting and definitely has me thinking about the JVC! I would be interested to view any other tests that you might do with the JVC.

Thanks for the test, just a small hint: the JVC LS300 has ISO and Deg settings, you can find it in the display information settings.

"I'm sorry I confused Valentine's Day for St. Patrick's Day, and forgot you had a birthday this year."

Good work spotting the strengths of the JVC LS300. I do, however, have an issue with your methodology. "ISO 3200" is scaled differently on these cameras and does not provide a level playing field for comparison. What I'd recommend is setting ISO with reference to the lowest ISO setting of each camera. The GH2, for example, has a base ISO 160, and ISO 3200 is far beyond its usable range. I would take this camera no higher than ISO 1600. The GH4 has a base ISO 200, but V-Log L mode is minimum ISO 400. Likewise, the LS300 has a base ISO 400, but J-Log1 mode has a base ISO 800. Using a log profile, if we take ISO 3200 as a usable maximum for the LS300, the GH4 should be set to ISO 1600. The GH2 has no log profile, and I'd recommend setting it no higher than ISO 800. This is not to give an advantage to the Panasonics, but to normalize the cameras' ISO settings with respect to their native ISO ranges. As you noted, the LS300's best quality in-camera recording mode works at 422 50Mbps. If you shoot the GH4 in 4K 100Mbps and downsample the footage to 1080p, you're effectively increasing color depth to something approaching 444. I wouldn't consider this unfair, but would point out that the LS300 could likewise be run at 4K 150Mbps for a level playing field comparison. My experience with the GH2 is that its hacked bitrate can have a major effect on the quality of shadow detail, particularly with a bright, highly detailed background. I would recommend using at least 100Mbps bitrate in 24H mode, as its quality is far higher than the GH2's 25p and 30p video modes.

I used TH-cam's "enhancement" function to brighten the video and it now looks more like it when I edited it.

TH-cam appears to have butchered the footage... Everything is a little darker than it should be AND the noise that was in the FS-5 footage appears to have been completely swallowed by compression artifacts.... :-\

Awesome film! Thank you for making this! My friend Cal played the doctor, and I'm thrilled to have seen this. Keep it up!

The simultaneous 'quad screen' idea is brilliant, and makes this the best comparison vid I've seen yet! Thank you!

Thank you. Thank you for the jazz hands.

God i want that bmpcc soooo baaddd

Good test. Informative.

is the Panasonic GH2 patched?

The BMPCC was VERY hard to focus -- the screen was dim and the focus assist lines were "forgiving." That might be a part of the lack of detail. :-( I did notice that the further I raised the dark tones, the muddier the details on the GH2 footage looked, no doubt due to the 8bit 50Mbps MPEG4 codec versus the 10bit 220Mbs ProRes codec.

and gh2 holds green better. MUCH better

looks like gh2 have more details at most original and graged shots. i"m dissapointed in pocket v:(

BM shall work with Olympus or Panasonic to make a contrast AF right. My Olympus E-PM2 is super fast and accurate AF. 13-stop dynamic range: my E-PM2 (same sensor on OMD-ME5) has 13-stop dynamic range on RAW. But it does not record in CinemaRAW or ProRes 422, which is nothing to do w Camera Tec. It is SD card recording speed breakthrough. Olympus could put this feature on the cameras as wish with cost nothing I bet.

The problem was that due to the brightness of the day, I couldn't see the BMPCC's screen very well (even at it's maximum brightness, it was VERY hard to see). :-( AND... I found that the focus assist was a little "forgiving" -- it showed the contrast lines when it wasn't actually in perfect focus. I use the lens all the time on my GH2 and it is very sharp.

?? It was shot in film mode.

why are you shooting in video mode if you are color grading in post?

I had this lens (f/1.7 20mm) on my m4/3 Olympus E-P2 and E-PM2. It was one of the sharpest lenses I ever had. But your video somehow shows pretty bad. I suspect you might have a focus problem or check with BM to see if the BMCC support this lens or not. I will doubt though.

The "stone porch" scene is about as wide a range as you can get (short of a windowless room with a bright light). The clarity of the porch attests to the dynamic range of the BMPCC. It could have been pulled up further, but it wouldn't have been a pleasing shot in the end... ;-) One of my other videos ("First BMPCC Test") shows a pan from bright light to deep shadow that I did a grade-over-time on. Check back in a few hours and I'll post a graded/ungraded version...

thanks, this is exact what I expect, although I do not own the BMCC yet. It would be nice if you show/post a video after you pushed/pulled results, which indeed can reflect a capability of BMCC. If BMCC indeed as claimed has 3 - 4 stops more in dynamic range, then the results would be totally diff if you shoot a wider range scene.

I used FCPX's grader, which does use the extra bit depth of ProRes422HQ. The BMPCC has immensely more latitude than the GH2 -- I could push the images much further, as seen in the "stone porch" shot above. There was much more detail in the railing and foreground with the BMPCC. It didn't matter all that much though, as in the end both created very pleasing images...

Bit Depth is not Dynamic range you fool, 20%, Panasonic is 8 bit yes and the BMPCC is 10 bit, but in terms on dynamic range the Panasonic doesn;'t even come close, it's 13 stops against 7-8 in video mode on the GH2, yeah it takes stills at around 11 stops but not video. so comparing 8 to 13 is 5 stops difference which is huge. It has roughly 62% more dynamic range. Raw obviously doesn't effect Dynamic range, you'll still have 13 stops regardless of shooting Prores or Raw, and it's Raw not RAW.

Which SW did you use for your grading? Panasonic took AVCHD which is 8-bit sample depth while the BMPCC took Pro Res 422 which is 10-bit sample depth. When you grade them, say with Pro Res 422, you shall have at least 20% more dynamic range and color depth on BMCC to push and pull. BTW, if take CinemaDNG RAW, you have 12-bit depth that is 50% more than GH2. YOu shall take photos at extreme lighting cases and then psuh/pull in the limit to grade then you will a big diff between those two...

Best short film ever! That was hilarious!

woohoo :)

Fantastic film, congratulations on your hard work!

.. blocked. j/k lol.

Awesome production design guys!