@GravitateMediaGroup I will do a quick doodle search and will get back with you ; ) For me, it is based on testing with this particular camera and the results I have been getting in the process for the last two years. This is subjective. For example, we all have different threshold and tolerances for artifacts, noise, etc. And the different picture styles give different results( which are interpreted differently by each person) including post(grading,etc). I did use extensively standard before but evaluating the results, for me the eye candy comes with smooth.

Here's an old test I conducted (this was EX Tele modes) showing the profiles and amount of bitrate each utilises. It still stands today as a test. The results showed (Ive put these in order below to show amount of avg bitrate each profile used for the same picture);-

• Nostalgic - 80160 kbps
• Smooth - 77315 kbps
• Nature - 75641 kbps
• Dynamic - 75448 kbps
• Vibrant - 74243 kbps
• Standard - 74119 kbps
• Cinema - 64180 kbps

Clearly the GH2 pushes the encoder around regarding the chroma/luma differences in each profile. I choose Standard because its baseline without any additions/subtractions. Whatever floats your boat - use it! Here's the video (in no particular order of bitrate size used);-

The difference between cinema and nostalgic(the extremes?) is striking in cam. Less pronounced for standard and smooth but still clear if you look carefully enough(in cam) For the post, things get subjective as I mentioned earlier.

@luxis After a brief search it comes down to properly exposing for whatever the subject or situation is, following a histogram, and don't believe what the cameras LCD is showing you. I guess this is why expensive monitors are a big deal.

Either way. Back on topic. Moon 5 & 3 are pretty spectacular. Lol

Nostalgic - 80160 kbps Smooth - 77315 kbps Nature - 75641 kbps Dynamic - 75448 kbps Vibrant - 74243 kbps Standard - 74119 kbps Cinema - 64180 kbps

...what can be done in grading to simulate any picture style is doing so after subsampling and after compression. If the "flatter" picture styles are a fraud then that's negating the work and research of scores of people affecting not just this camera but all cameras. I guess Technicolor and other pros are just "croaking smack"?

No, it doesn't take a genius to figure out that shooting with the lifted profile means that in the grading process the "flatter" shooter is pulling noise and compression artifacts down as they grade, making them less visible regardless of any noise-reduction being done. Gravitate is pushing his noise up.

Plus, those numbers up there don't lie. That's more information making its way through the compression. Even if you crush some of it down, it's disingenuous to downplay an extra 5K-6K when the simple fact of pursuing these patches, and Driftwood's continued experiments and revisions, is an act of clawing and straining for every last bit that can make it onto the card. Well, that's my PV.

@burnetrhoades if this is the case, how come technicolor can't come up with a picture style equal or greater than a RED or BMCC dynamic range?

latitude and DR are different, but in the same family. technicolor is misleading by saying it increases DR because this simply is not true, or all cameras should be able to produce the same DR, but they can't because it's a hardware ability, not a "camera setting" I've done some more research and it all comes back to the same thing "properly expose"

technicolor is a company seeking customers, company's have been known to say things that's aren't 100% true to draw in more customers ; ) I have seen several other websites selling their "canon picture styles" and I have seen one very boldly admit something along the lines of "this will not, and can not boost your dynamic range, we aren't trying to sell you lies" they just admitted that it will give a flat baseline image, and others that will give a more cinematic look was crushed blacks and so on.

they offer "one" for free. others cost. it's to bait you in, then convince you to buy. https://www.technicolorcinestyle.com/cinestyle-looks/

there will NEVER be a picture style on any camera that will ever give an 8bit camera the same DR as a 12+ bit camera lol

there will NEVER be a picture style on any camera that will ever give an 8bit camera the same DR as a 12+ bit camera lol

Only you are making that comparison. You're stating something obvious like you're teaching us all something.

Yeah. But I see the value in manipulating the DR that's there. This whole hack/patch thing and pushing these cameras to places Panasonic (or Canon for that matter) never dreamed of when they were designing them is a fight for every little bit you can get. It's like Pacino's great half-time speech near the end of Any Given Sunday about fighting for every inch.

so.....do you think you gain more DR with a patched camera over a non patched camera?

@driftwood just curious, and I'm sure this has been answered 500 times, but is 244mb/s the MAX for a gh2, or has it been pushed further and it just isn't safe, or 95mb/s cards can't properly handle anything over that?

Based on a couple threads over at EOSHD I ran an ISO noise test on Moon trial 3 and found some surprising results. I'd seen previous tests where other patches had an ISO320 that was not very good at all and clearly inferior to ISO400. This patch brings ISO320 back into the fold and ISO1250 is as good or better than ISO800 but ISO640 looks to be for all practical purposes just as good as (if not better than!) ISO160 and ISO200.

FULL COLOR http://i49.tinypic.com/2wc1dp5.png

RED ONLY http://i48.tinypic.com/ju7fh1.png

GREEN ONLY http://i48.tinypic.com/14c78yv.png

BLUE ONLY http://i50.tinypic.com/2uzdk5d.png

LUMA ONLY http://i47.tinypic.com/2554zlw.png

...to create these I added an 'Exposure' node in CS6-AE. Shooting profile was 'Smooth' and -2,-2,0,-2