Has Panasonic fixed the GH2 iso's bug on the GH3 ?
(on the gh2 there was a bug that was causing an anormal increment of noise on certain isos selected when switching from power up - even low - and on some units a very annoying band on the lower third in highest isos, so the cure, or better said the trick, was to select a non conflictive iso for the C1 C2 and C3 to make sure not powering up badly - 320, 640...were to avoid)
I beleive they did fix that on the GH3 but not sure.
James, or Chris S, have you noticed a weired behaviour with your GH3s on that aspect?
Edit: for a discussion on the GH2 iso bug you can start on the hacker site: http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/1280/gh2-iso-noise-bug-at-320-640-and-1250/p1
Has Panasonic fixed the GH2 iso's bug on the GH3 ?
(on the gh2 there was a bug that was causing an anormal increment of noise on certain isos selected when switching from power up - even low - and on some units a very annoying band on the lower third in highest isos, so the cure, or better said the trick, was to select a non conflictive iso for the C1 C2 and C3 to make sure not powering up badly - 320, 640...were to avoid)
I beleive they did fix that on the GH3 but not sure.
James, or Chris S, have you noticed a weired behaviour with your GH3s on that aspect?
Edit: for a discussion on the GH2 iso bug you can start on the hacker site: http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/1280/gh2-iso-noise-bug-at-320-640-and-1250/p1
Fred,
Seriously the only bug I've seen on my gh3's is me.
Early on it takes a while to learn any camera and though the gh3 is now intuitive, I missed some things in file setup, iso, the right nd filters, color settings, tone settings, zeroing out the evf to match the computer.
I've only pushed the file to over 3,000 once and really never thought I would get a usable image but it worked out much better than I thought.
With proper lighting proper setup I've never seen another issue except once when I was medium speed panning and has the os on the lens and got a strange kind of stretch and warping on one take.
Could have been a glitch, but I think it was a combination of the lens stability and the slight jello cam fighting each other.
But shot proper, with support, some light and care of highlights, shadows I really have nothing to say negative on these cameras, just the opposite. I have found that for video it helps a great deal to turn the sharpening down as far as possible and play with adding some in camera noise reduction for video.
But i've never seen banding, even in blue skies pulled down in a key.
In fact I've seen more weirdness on my RED files than the gh3's.
Not to go of topic but since the gh3's look like little toys, I think people tend to shoot them that way, where if they mounted a red or an arri they'd put huge care is setup, support, rehearsal and shooting.
If I give the gh3's 1/2 the attention I give my REDs I get twice the result.
IMO
BC