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Improved Lumix GH1 test 720p60 reef aquarium

2010-02-25

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I've made some improvements to my technique:

1. Used the camera's custom white balance to make the sand in the aquarium appear white.

2. Set the shutter to 1/30. Youtube only handles 30fps video, so 60fps video will appear choppy with its minimum shutter of 1/60. When set to 1/30, the camera will just output each frame twice in 60fps.

3. Stopped down to f/4 with all of my lenses to reduce aberrations. Set camera to manually adjust ISO in 1/3EV increments. Since the shutter and aperture are fixed, I adjust ISO to achieve the correct exposure.

4. Use my Vivitar 28-90 set at 50mm, which is its best-performing setting.

5. Use auto-contrast effect in Premiere.

6. Make sure premiere outputs video in 0-255 range instead of 16-235. This was probably just a display issue with my Nvidia 8600M GT, but I updated Premiere anyway since there was mention of this bug.

7. Used "smooth" film mode in camera with -2 contrast and -2 noise reduction.