@chickenpusher: very nice stuff. you really got the best out of that kit lens aswell!

Thanks for your comments. I used the Smooth profile with all -2 (I think). Every shot was colored with 3 way colorista and curves adjusted to make the shadows pop out. I'm still learning to do good grading but I have my own image that I like and generally stick to. To be honest these settings Did a lot of the work for me. The 14-140 is a really underestimated lens. Sure, it does not have a fast aperture or shallow depth of field but that look has been completely overused by the DSLR community in my opinion. Plus it has really good image stabilization.

@aashay: i use nostalgic,too. it has the highest DR of all gh2 film modes...

-2 -2 0 -1 Well, could be. I was using smooth the past year. There is something about nostalgic that i like. Especially when its a bit darker. I dont know about the flatness dslr conventions. I think what is commonly understood as the cinematic dslr style is totally overused these days. Super flat and super duper shallow depth of field, is simply not my cup of tea, while others might crave for that look. I also dont grade much, just when i fooked up i do mild corrections. Its just like with photoshop. People overdo it and things start to look artifical. Its the same with slider/dolly shots or steadycam work. Its just so much overused. People use it without any motivation coming out of the story or subject. Just dull eye candy. Besides that there are not many people who do it well on a technical level in the first place. They get their glidecam and think that is half the rent. It takes years to master a steadycam.

The good thing about the 444 matrix is (in my opinion) that the out of the camera results are pretty much alright. So Valkyrie and nostalgic just go well like frenchfries and ketchup in my opinion :)

But then again this is all my personal view. And i am far from being a pro. Sorry for getting slightly off topic.

Hi guys

Thank you for maintaining this thread during my hospitalization. I came back! :-)

I shoot the samples of cherry blossoms in the site of the hospital where I was in the hospital.

Welcome back m8! I hope you are 100% well again very soon! :)

@bkmcwd i am so happy to read this, keep on the good work, but get better first :) !

I've been playing around with this footage in 5DtoRGB, and I'd like another opinion on this, but there is absolutely no visible step-up in colour or image quality over the 444 native clips. If this is true then this hack truly is brilliant.

Thanks guys! :-)

I think that new Valkyries is probably releasable at this weekend. These are improved in all the rec modes.

NEW!

bkmcwd Valkyrie 444 TYPE-ZERO2_BETA3 'Apocalypse Now' with cbrandin 'Pure Original 444 Matrix' and 'Modified 444 Matrix' - seta.ini - Released 06/04/2013

This is the version which adjusted safer and better from TYPE-ZERO2_BETA2 in all the rec modes.

IMO, this BETA is most stable and most reliable in Valkyrie series now.

I think that the freezing issue at the moment of the focusing and zooming was solved nearly perfectly also in Panny lens use.

Please try it! And I am very glad if I can get feedbacks from you.

*If this is also still unstable, I will further adjust.

Special thanks to @har_k and All silent users of my settings! :-)

Of course, many thanks to @cbrandin and KING @driftwood!

• Superb-looking Pure Original 444 matrix from cbrandin is adopted in 24p mode

• Modified 444 matrix from my BETA Team in Japan is adopted in HBR/1080i and 720p modes

• Upto 140M for Top Quality 1080p24 at Q18

• Upto 140M for Top Quality 1080p30 at Q18 in 24L mode with 80% Slow-Motion Mode (No Sound)

• Upto 75M for Top Quality HBR/FSH modes

• Upto 75M for Top Quality 720/50p modes

• Upto 60M for Top Quality 720/60p modes (6GOP)

• Extremely reliable top performance in AVCHD 24H and 24L

• 80% Slow-Motion is available in 24L only

• Fully working iA and iDynamic modes if you require them (Take care only in 720/60p)

• Beautiful 3 GOP bringing short GOP style detail & movement-rendition in 24p, 1080i and 720/50p

• Bush of Death / Death chart tested.

• Wonderful Pasadena Pulse Audio Patch V2 B2, by Per Lichtman

• Top quality 2K mjpeg Mode in HD by Nick Driftwood

• In camera playback is sometimes not available in 24p. In other mode, Sometimes available after reboot the camera.

*I especially recommend you use with SanDisk 95MB/s 64GB SDXC card.