Bits of dynamic range? What a joke!!! Bit depth has nothing to do with dynamic range.

@caveport in linear light, it has :)

@Vitaliy_Kiselev In which way is it precise, though? In which way did the DR increase when it's not about images? Only because we have more values? :)

My code came in the post this morning!!interested to see how you import luts into the camera though..it gives a link to download a lut but doesnt mention how to import it

In linear light, the amount of bits you have equals the number of stops you can save. So when you shoot linear (which the GH5 doesn't obviously), "two bits more" make perfect sense. And that's what I meant in the first place Don't know why you pull unrelated articles and comparisons to analogue film, has nothing to do with each other.

Is it worth it getting vlog if I'm not going to be recording to an external source? I'll be going straight to card in 10bit.

In effect, dynamic range can be thought of as the height of a staircase whereas bit depth can be thought of as the number of steps.

This is a small but important distinction. Dynamic range is not measured in digital bits. It is the contrast ratio between the darkest and lightest parts of an image.

The staircase analogy is pretty good. The magnitude of the dynamic range is the ratio of the lightest to the darkest part of the range. But in your staircase analogy, the darkest possible value is the lowest point on the staircase - the floor. The height there is zero, at least for linear or gamma-type encodings. You can't take a ratio of something to zero. It's undefined. So instead we use the height of the first step as the darkest possible value. So now you see that making that first step smaller does increase the ratio. Though the actual increase also depends on the OETF (gamma curve). In a linear encoding, every bit you add halves the height of the first step and doubles the magnitude of the dynamic range. Dynamic range is not measured in bits, but there is a relationship between them.

Though practically, the bottom few steps are too noisy to use, and so it's not the height of the bottom step that determines the dynamic range. The lowest step that's not too noisy is the bottom of the dynamic range. No one agrees about how noisy is too noisy, so dynamic range measurements are not standardized.

Off-topic low lighting, but good job!

GH5 vs A6300 test:

GH5 Manual is online: https://eww.pavc.panasonic.co.jp/dscoi/DC-GH5/EG_EC_EF_EB/DC-GH5_DVQP1121ZA_eng.pdf

So bored of usual Vloggers about GH5? Lets have some fun instead...

@Eno The GH5 is a great 1080p performer! Huge jump up from the last few models.

@driftwood...terrific and entertaining!