Nowadays  many people are sharing Youtube-videos made with the Pansonic Lumix GH1. But this one is the first GH1 video made with a Tilt Shift lens. It reminds me of photos from Olivo Barbieri. This very facility is one of the reasons why I’m playing with the idea of buying or renting the GH1 for my next videoproject. I would use a Tilt Shift lens all the time :)
Side by side: Leica R and Pansonic G1
The german company Novoflex already produce a really long adapter list and now they are ready to release following NEW adapters:
From end of April 2009:
MFT/OM for Olympus OM
From end of May 2009:
With stop-down function at the adapter!!!!!!!
MFT/MIN-AF for Sony/Minolta-AF
MFT/NIK for Nikon
MFT/PENT for Pentax
There is a long and incredibly interesting thread in the dvxuser.com forum where people analyze the video quality of the Panasonic GH1. It seems the camera has a blue channel banding issue. I hope Panasonic can fix it soon.
UPDATE: It seems the same effect is present in the red channel.
UPDATE2: You can download a video sample from the GH1 from here: http://www.dvxuser.com/barry/PRIVATE.zip.
You can read the forum post at dvxuser.com.
UPDATE3: More videos for dowload avaiable here:
http://sss1.sakura.ne.jp/download/usagi.zip
http://sss1.sakura.ne.jp/download/yomichi.zip
If you know how a CMOS sensor works you know that it suffers from the famous rolling shutter effect.  This software could help to clear up the effects of your Panasonic GH1’s rolling shutter.
Now you can download the latest version of th Panasonic editing programm which can handle the Panasonic GH1 footage (from the japanese Panasonic website).
