You can download the video of my test here https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzJ3L6nv6Fn0b2NEb3lMR0xERXc/edit?usp=sharing Don't bother watching it online, it's heavily compressed. You can download the ProRes file from the file menu.

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I've got LP's profiles loaded, I think they're a great idea but you have to be very careful how you use them on this camera. The fixed pattern noise is a problem

Nice grading tests, I'm looking forward to trying out the D5200 in the near future. One important thing to note about Nikon Gamma Controls: there's actually no danger of overdoing the gamma boost, since you can always restore the video back to the camera's default gamma 1.0 in post, without loss of image detail. While you may indeed see more FPN with more extreme gamma settings, no additional noise is being added to what the image sensor is producing itself. With boosted gamma, the H.264 encoder is able to record the darker details more accurately and with less banding and quantization noise. When you then grade down the boosted shadows in post, the FPN is naturally reduced along with it.

I was just using the filmconvert plugin so I didn't have full control over the grade, I could easily correct it in the standalone version. I tried all the presets and the RED LUT looked best out of the box, the room is so green a bit of red would help.

The 5D is still the high ISO king but the D5200 is pretty impressive for $700.

Based on the original footage from camera downloaded from vimeo I developed two Neat video preset settings for the D5200. The footage did not allow me to extract the noise profiles, so just the denoise settings was done.

The conservative version works good for iso up to 3200, use radius 2.

The aggressive version works good for iso 6400 and 12800, use radius 5.

Observation: denoised iso 3200 does not show image tremble, but iso 6400 and 12800 shows some tremble impossible to remove. This tremble issue is generated by the high amount of noise which deforms the image, so when the noise is cleaned, the image tremble a bit.

It is important to say the GH2 shows some tremble in 1600 denoised footage and the D5200 just starts to show it in 6400, so it is 2 fstops improvement. Also denoised iso 6400 and 12800 is pretty usable.

A tip to hide the tremble is to apply a small amount of film grain simulation to the denoised footage.

Here are the two presets:

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They both look out of focus to me :)

Suprised the GH2 is that much wider than the D5200

one more test, couple of originals, 25 mb each, D800e with mosaic filter, and D5200, let me know what you think, same settings, Lpowell 0.8.

I think they are pretty close, with slight edge to D800e, and proof that no moire will be in the shot, with D5200 you can catch it once in a while. D800e is full frame, more use of Nikon glass.

http://yadi.sk/d/X27nuJ5L31cfU http://yadi.sk/d/Y8f4C4Ie31ciI

@olegkalyan Damn what happened to the accent? :)

D5200 mic has no bass :(

GH2 mic is very good, full of bass.

One advantage I have noticed over the GH2 - the D5200 saves videos in MOV format - easy to load straight in Davinci Resolve

I like the GH2 outdoors, but indoors I dunno, it always seems to look a bit green here, even with tweaked colours. Or maybe it's because of the kit lens I'm using along with the higher ISO? My Rx100 looks more pleasing indoors in comparison.

@olegkalyan Well I still get this green look in the blacks and dark areas even with Nostalgic.

Try it now.

It's pretty nice for $700 and I think it blows every DSLR away up to the D800 and 5D MKIII and even gives them a run for their money. I could comfortably make films with it, it looks very cinematic.

BTW most of that clip was shot @ f/22, not exactly the sweet spot of the lens.

Here's an ungraded ProRes clip for those who like to tinker- https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzJ3L6nv6Fn0cFVqeGRLNTYxcTQ/edit?usp=sharing 1Gb download from the file menu.

This is how it looks ungraded vs graded

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Here is a sample - attached - GH2 top, RX100 bottom. GH2 is far too crushed blacks and contrast, even set at the lowest setting - AWB for both - under fluro lighting. The colour balance is fine as you can see from the white'ish walls which is similar for both, but the blacks are just too green on the GH2. I suspect it's due to the large amounts of extra noise the GH2 has in the blue channel

GH2 Colour balance is 2 notches left and 2 notches down

Outdoors is fine though, but indoors is a problem for me

Personally I prefer it the the BMCC, much easier to work with and result wise only a peeper is gonna be able to tell the difference.

The neutral profile works well, I still have to test flaat, standard with contrast down, and LPowell's gammas.

CoolColJ, see what you mean, 3 way color corrector works for me, getting desired color in blacks, shadows works pretty good. I like fuller luma/croma signal out of GH2, neutral, has it's limitations while grading, if recorded to the card.. It's easier for me to bring the shadows, take some highlights out, if you need to while balancing colors in 3 way CC. (Killed luma, some people may like the look, is not my cup of coffee)