@Mckinise

60P :)

Try 1/40s shutter with 24P. Dont move camera. Tell people to stay still. Dont shoot moving objects. Dont zoom. Dont sharpen Dont autofocus.

@Vesku Man, I may as well be taking photos in that case.

@svart I am asking more if there are certain settings that should be notched downward to improve the fluidity of the footage.

Something like Standard with -5's across the board. I will not be doing much if any panning. I will be using a Dolly to go forward and backward.

@bwhitz Perhaps, but there are still ways to decrease the amount of stutter. I wish to discuss those methods and their usage on THIS specific camera. Do you have advice?

@c3hammer

More tips for 24P if someone have to use it for some reasons. Set shaprness to -5 in camera. So sharpness pumps less when soft movement stops and scene becomes sharp. Even little movements lead sharpness pumping. Use tripod. Use small f number so that backgroung becomes soft. Then you can follow movement without backgroud jitter. Pan very slow, there are some rules (degrees/sec). If handheld use stabilized lenses.

Thanks @svart too!!

@McKinise No, none of the settings change the way 24P motion looks. I'm not sure you understand what I'm saying here.. What I am saying is that a LOT of people complain about stuttering on 24P but they are viewing it on a 60hz monitor, but they are being fooled into thinking the stuttering is more than it really is due to how a 60hz monitor displays 24P. You cannot evenly display 24P on a 60hz monitor without there being gaps between frames, doubled frames or having to do a 2:3 pulldown telecine conversion.

Seriously, look up telecine and 2:3 pulldown. That's how broadcast networks make 24p NOT stutter on 60hz televisions.. Newer TVs can do this natively. Monitors don't have such things and will always have issues.

If your monitor can do it, I suggest changing the refresh rate to 72hz(3x24P) and rewatch your 24p files. They'll be a lot smoother.

@manu4vendetta That december day video looks great.

So I was shooting with the G6 the other day. I was doing the handheld work and the director was watching on his tablet computer. After about 60 seconds, the screen goes black on the camera yet the stream to the tablet stays working. I suppose they don't think that someone might actually want to use both at the same time.

Also, if you have wifi control of the camera and then do something manually on the camera, it takes over and the tablet user loses all control over the camera from that point on and the only way i can figure out to get wifi control again is to reconnect with wifi, which is a 2-5 minute operation. That kinda sucks.

So now my list of must-haves for future firmware is:

1. HDMI live view while recording
2. Wifi AND lcd viewing(or at least the option to have both)

Otherwise, the camera worked great.

I did find something interesting though. If you are plugged into HDMI and go into the menu, nothing happens. If you are in the menu and go to "custom" and go into a sub-menu, the HDMI starts working and then you can navigate the menu while watching it on HDMI. It looks like they attempted to cripple the HDMI in all modes except for playback, but somehow missed a portion of the menu.

I think it's pretty obvious that HDMI out will work on this thing with some firmware changes.

Just received my g6 yesterday. Man is it light ! I have the advanced manual but I can't find how to set manual controls in the creative control picture styles . Is this even possible , or is manual limited to the normal picture styles ?

got both...the advanced isn't very clear

@Kurth go into the actual menu, into the video mode section and go to "picture mode" from there you can make the adjustments to "std", "vivid", etc. Seems they took away the shortcut to make those changes directly from the buttons.

@svart

Obviously I see picture mode adjustments. But you can never adjust monochrome to be dynamic b&w. And they've got more some cool filters in creative control mode. Last night I did some video in some of these ...like bleach bypass. I'll do some more testing. You can take video in these modes and it looks like it tries to keep shutter speed at 60 ( at 30P ) but it does ramp up if there's more light . Today I'll put my vnd on and see how it behaves in daylight. I also saw that this is a carryover from the g5. I'll add this to the wishlist for firmware fixes. It was one of the complaints mentioned in reviews. They give us these great picture filters , and then they don't let us control them. Maybe the g7. And , before anyone mentions the argument about doing it in post...stop ! To be able to compose in esp. b&w, if you're certain you're using b&w, is a great advantage, in contrast (no pun intended ) to composing in color and then converting in post. thanx k