Palau video

[matdiver]

Palau, one of the most amazing (and expensive) places to dive.... but it can still pour down with rain for a week!
Anyway, here's 8 minutes or so of the highlights. Pana GH2, hack: 50 Mbps, GOP 3, 720/50p, edited in Sony Vegas MS 13.

Cheers,
Matt
[video=vimeo;92704941]https://vimeo.com/92704941[/video]

 

[Interceptor121]

The close up work is fabulous and I like some of the edit and shots at slow shutter speeds

On the technical side seems like there is a bit of pincushion distortion at the wide end and also a bit of banding when you shoot blue together with some vignetting or dark corners.
The optical issues could be the flat port and/or the lens but the banding is the H264 compression that panasonic uses I had the same issue with the LX7 what I did was to pump the black in the editing and the banding would disappear

 

[matdiver]

Hi Interceptor121,
thanks very much indeed for your comments. On some of the shots I think there are dark corners because of the way I'd wedged a sanitary towel into my housing, forcing the camera a few millimetres back from the port. Increasing the contrast in post hasn't helped either! Distortion - what can we do? choose between barrel or pincushion, basically. The key advantage of a flat port, as I see it, is the ease with which you can use a red filter, but I think I'm in the minority here.
Slo-mo/slow shutter - I was trying to be a bit artistic, but I suspect this is just a phase I'm going through, and I'll probably grow out of it soon!
Cheers,
Matt

 

[Interceptor121]

Do you have an m67 thread on your housing? If so I recommend a wetmate for the wide shots. It makes the image really crisp

I like the shutter speed bit some of our videos at times get a bit boring so that was a good idea

 

[Cudabait]

Matdiver.....Good job. Keep up the good work. I enjoyed this video. That's what they're for!