@BurnetRhoades. You know about the GH2 ISO bug, right?

Guys there is a reason there is always a scramble on high-end cameras to find the right profile settings, all these cine-gammas and log functions...the DR of a camera is the DR but along the lines of what @BurnetRhoades says it's about making as much of it usable as possible or which sections we are using.

And getting back on Topic, yes, as others have also noticed, the MOON hack, run through 5D2RGB, in my case shot with smooth dialed down delivers a nice starting point for a grade, quite flat, but not like Cinestyle which I can't quite like on my 5D. I have not previously noticed the ability to get nice, well exposed skin tones and perfect highlights in the sky behind in the middle of a tropical sunny day, and now I can. It's no more stops of DR than whatever the GH2 delivers, 8,9,10...I don't know, but its closer to the full range than a stock GH2 with FCPX transcoding running dynamic (to make the extreme point) would be.

Quick and crude grading test out of my office window testing Moon Trial 5...setting on smooth all at -2

@danielvy Sony Vegas on my work pc (normally use fcp x on my mac).

Just used Vegas's in built colour corrector and colour s curve.

@producer totally agree. I wanted to do a quick test to see how quick and easy it was to push the flat smooth image from the moon hack without losing detail, blowing highlights or crushing blacks.

Never had footage this open to grading before, it's like playing with a raw photo in Lightroom!

@Rammstein

would be interesting this test at different white balance.

This was using the tungsten WB. I only ever shoot with this or the daylight balance presets. If I have time today I'll run it again with daylight.

Seeing this, along with previous tests done with other patches, earlier posts in this thread make sense where test footage shot at ISO 500 immediately drew comments regarding visible noise. That's just a bad ISO for this camera, across multiple patches it seems. I'd been curious on a different patch why my ISO320 footage was so noisy in the shadows but I hadn't seen the noise tests. I'm glad Moon appears to have made that setting more useful.

I'm going to do this sort of thing for each patch that I shoot now to have a catalog of their noise. It'll be useful for both NR but also as a layer to add to CGI to even better integrate with the GH2 footage.

ok cool, just did a quick test comparing intravenous 2, moon 5, drewnet 6, and finally gh3.

drewnet 6 and the gh3 footage were a fantastic match. i used to use flowmotion, then switched to intravenous 2 because of the flowmotion rain. now i'll be switching over to drewnet 6 because i can record more footage to each card (i do interviews) and the color matched so well with the gh3.

the intravenous 2 footage and moon 5 footage looked very similar, but i like the moon 5 picture slightly more. the problem with both of these was one, the high bitrates fill up a card quick (my interviews can run 3 hours) and two, they were way green compared to my gh3 (moon was more slightly more green than intravenous). drewnet 6 was way more red than either of these 2 and it made it way more similar to the gh3. as far as noise goes, intravenous 2 and moon 5 were only very slightly better than drewnet 6.

if i were to rank the hacks in order of image quality i'd go 1 - moon 5 2 - intravenous 2 3 - drewnet 6

but seriously folks, it was like splitting hairs, i'd say 2-3% max difference in image quality between them. little enough for me to choose drewnet 6 as my hack of choice from now on.

i have to admit though, the gh3 trumped all 3. the tiny noise, fine detail, and dynamic range are fantastic.

also, i pushed the rgb curves around on all the footage and in my quick test, they could all be pushed around quite a better. a helluva lot better than my old AF100. so glad i sold that thing.

@SeekingHeartwood @Driftwood just a question but for long-doc intvs, has anyone tried 24L setting? Would it still use the same excellent matricies, etc just encode at a lower bit rate? Might be a good solution if you're trying to get 3 hours on one card....

@SeekingHeartwood there's no such thing as "flowmotion rain".

So i tried the new Moon settings and my 16Gb sdxc 95mbs card still says its not fast enough, i thought FSH mode was improved

? really how is that?

Oh ahah i dont think so , i mean if theres someone else with same Sandisc Extreme 95mbs card 16gb , Give it a try and see if same thing happens,happened to me slightly after 1 min of rec. FSH mode. 24H didnt seem to give me any problems.

till then im back to flowmotion 2.02

@jclmedia @driftwood I managed to record 12 minutes with Moon Trial 5 using FSH and Sandisc Extreme 16GB 95mbs card. Then it stopped. I normally use HBR and I am desperately waiting for the next Moon update for HBR 25p spanning fix...