If you ask me, I do not care.
Many cocksuckers like to measure resolution from morning till night.
Go and shoot something meaningful, be it GH2 or any old and purely resolving camera.

LOL!

That's right boys and girls....put the dicks down, and go shoot something.

Vitaliy

Both my films were shown in Londons west end on a 40' screen and resolution was very important. They both looked spectacular with the EX1 Letus combo looking slightly better.

I want to make a feature film and looking for a cheap camera that can do this. I'm thinking maybe the GH2 can and so far it does look a little soft in my opinion and want to know what resolution it is. Now that doesn't mean its a bad thing to be a little soft as its kinder on faces etc But I do want to be able to project this on a 40 foot screen and know it will work so I know my camera's weaknesses as well as its strengths.

That's why I sent you a donation and thats why I bought both EOSHD's books.

Mark

This picture is a frame grab from an EX1 Another with just an EX1

You'll have no probs with the GH2, I swear. Youre right nobody has conducted h/v line tests yet. People are already making features with the GH2. Google away or look here on this site.

@mark2929 Are you using a good quality adapter between that Pentax 50mm and GH2? Cheaper adapters might cause issues with slighty tilted mounts and/or wrong flange distances.

@mark2929 I suggest renting some lenses from lensrentals.com or other such places and do a series of tests. Some people want a less sharp image and use lenses that get them that look. Others may want a crisper look. This can be achieved with very sharp lenses. Some lenses just nail both worlds such as the Cooke S4s.

Keep in mind that the EX1/EX3 has been shown to have a lot of edge enhancement, even with sharpening turned down. That could be a contributing factor. The key with the GH2 is to determine if you can get the images to look right to your eyes on a calibrated display. If the color, resolution, motion, etc look good to you, then it is good. Time to film the movie. If it doesn't, double check that you have got the most out of the GH2 image, and then look elsewhere. Next step up is a Red One, Epic, Scarlet, or Alexa. You will have plenty of resolution with those cameras. Throw on some Master Primes and you will have tack sharp images on a 40' screen no problem.

I own an EX1. Great camera, but one downfall is it's horrible CA.
Forget shooting someone in a white shirt under high contrast, especially on the tele end at its fastest f-stop. Also it tends to go soft in the corners on the tele end of the lens.

The rez is excellent and under right light conditions it's simply amazing.

The XDCAM 35Mb/s codec is OK, but no where the level quality of the high bitrate GOP1 we're shooting on the GH2. Now using EX1 SDI OUT video capture, a different story since you can capture raw 4:2:2.
But, the fixed lens with its issues is a problem, which is a fucking bummer.

But for long event footage. No doubt a good choice.

@Vitaliy_Kiselev

Just curious why you didn't include the 14-140mm in the list of the sharpest lenses. Wide open @ 14mm it is the single sharpest m4/3 or 4/3 lens on center. At around 25mm it is as sharp as almost any lens across the full lens.

The dpreview lens comparisons can be used to show this. If you want sharp then you want the 14-140mm.

@mpgxsvcd

I listed sharp primes :-)
One ones that are sharp wide open :-)

@mark2929 there is still a way to go with HDMI capture out of this cam... lets hope that the new firmware that has just been released by Panasonic has some hidden gems that allow VK to understand more about this topic!

danyyel its not much use looking at web compressed videos really. Thats why I've posted some frame grabs.

On a lot of sites you have people paid by manufacturers to skew results IE Often highly respected Gurus in the pay of a manufacturer or selling lots of gear while sneering at anyone who dares say anything that doesn't make their brand the greatest in the universe and a lot of rubbish is talked about cameras and what they can do. There is a reason that an Alexa can command such big money and why film shoots have expensive gear and its not because they are pixel peepers or measurebaters These put downs are often used by those with a mission that either makes them money or because they support a product like a football team. I've seen so called nuetral forums do this. I am none of those and I dont see any reason why GH2 owners should be afraid of the truth. If the truth can help make better films lets get it out there. I'm not here to rubbish any camera I want to know what the tools can or can't do.

After doing more tests this morning in case I got it wrong I can say the GH2 is definately softer compared to an EX1 or an EX1 with a letus adapter. I'm wondering if this is the same resolution as a panasonic af101 Although the GH2 has a bigger usable sensor so maybe its slightly better. That would then be maybe 630 lines which is below even 720p and perhaps unsuited to big screen projection. Has anyone seen GH2 footage projected? I am fumbling in the dark with this as no one has done proper testing and overlooked what is obviously the best DSLR and probable mid range camera out there. Maybe to many vested interests are at stake.

Those frame grabs I posted using an EX1 have the sharpening turned off. There is no sharpening although there is colour correction.

Brian the problem is without proper testing no one knows! Have you got links to those reports?