Yes, you're actually correct. I have started to switch my estabilisation off too now!

What kind of problems? I thought the estabilization is good in this camera?

@@lukpe3693 there are two settings when you look into stabilisation: ibis and electronic. Ibis is great, but electric can warp corners too much when you're on a wide lens. Plus it will crop your image a bit. So switch that off.

@@justalexhimself I see. I just got this as my first camera with the 25mm 1.7 lens. Should I turn off or on what do you think?

@@lukpe3693 for 25mm it won't make much difference at all. I would still switch it off because I don't like the crop that e-stabilisation adds. But either option will work!

That's awesome Mark. Super happy to hear this and enjoy your new camera! It's a great little device :)

You're welcome man! Enjoy!

thanks bruuu!

@@justalexhimself Very Welcome, my friend! Cheers. :)

Thank you!

Ditto! I’d love to see color correction and how you deal with things in post

thanks Paulo! There's a video about colour grading already on my channel - please have a look :)

One easy way is to hold down a function button which will bring a list of things you can change it to. Scroll down until you find level guage and click set.

Thank you! 4k is just more work in post production. 1080 is good enough for youtube in my opinion 😎

The quality differs due to bit rate. In the GH5 you have some higher bit-rate options and .MOV format which helps if you're filming action / fast movement shots where there is a lot of movement. Also If you want to do some heavy colour grading - the GH5 is better. But for "normal" product review vids, the Gx80 is amazing. Get the 20mm f1.4. It's my favourite combo!

Thank you! :) Hmm personally I would go for the 12 - 60. I really like how the 12mm looks in some situations, and 60mm on the tele end is plenty zoom for most cases!

@@justalexhimself Thanks!! I've been confused for a while . Looking at your work especially the gh5/g85 composition,color grading it's really amazing. Hats off🙏👍

@@unknwnjourneys thanks man!! super great to hear :) Check out some of my videos on vintage lenses - great to adopt for Micro Four thirds, and cheap!

@@justalexhimself sure, looking forward for more content!!👍

Yeah for photos it's a bit of an issue. I suppose just flip your picture profile to "vivid" or any of those other profiles. Sorry, I can't really give you a good answer for this question because I don't shoot that many stills... If anyone else here has any suggestions - do let us know!! :)

What you do is use natural everything at 0 on M mode, while use the custom c1,c2,c3 for video instead of M.

Thanks! The ring is from London Spitalfields Market ;)

man, just check the other videos on this channel. The 1080p in AVCHD is so good that it's on par with GH5 in .MOV. Sony a6000 series have horrible rolling shutter and no IBIS, you will hate your life trying to stabilise it in post.

@@justalexhimself Thanks for the fast reply, this is what I needed to hear. There is a good deal near me in a pawn shop for a gx80 body only for 177 pounds, I think I will buy it. Whish I could get a gx85 with unlimited recording but this should be okay as well. :) Also I think I will sell the a6000 if the gx80 equals in photo quality as well. I was thinking of getting the canon m50, but is more pricey (around double the price), it has it's pro's and con's compared to the gx80, but gx80 seems better overall deal

@@sztomi90 fyi : gx80 and Gx85 are the same thing. Just one name is for the American market and one is for Europe. They both only shoot 30min video. But that's plenty. 177 Pounds is a good deal. Go for it

Hey, no, I don't experience this problem personally. But I know this was an issue on the G80 a few years ago. There is a firmware update for the gx80. Try installing it and maybe it will fix the issue.

Hi Abi, thanks for reaching out. In relation to your questions: 1. No, the video is always in 16 x 9 (1920 x 1080), if you want an even "wider" look, you can change your resolution in the editing software and set your sequence to 1920 x 817, this will make the aspect ratio look even wider by cropping off the top and bottom. 2. Yes, I agree with you CineD does introduce a lot of noise and colours look a little too washed out... I too only use Natural or Cine V nowadays. 3. You should try to learn how to shoot in Manual. Even in "A" (aperture priority) the camera will tend to over-expose things and you will lose detail in the highlights. 4. I will make a video on how to nail focus on Gx80 soon, stay tuned :)

@@justalexhimself Great - very much appreciated sir. I will stay tuned on this. I recently got the GX9 with the 12-32 and am a complete newbie. I was almost about to get te FZ82 purely because of being a newbie you just go for the maddest zoom but after looking into it I decided for GX9 because if the cinema film capability, 24fps and all round quality. I might try out some of those cheapy ebay $100 chinese 600mm zoom lens for this camera, if you can also give out an explanation in your next video about achieving a zoom comparable to bridge cameras. I normally compare zoom to my 10x50 binoculars, so I get the 35mm equivalent and divide by 50 (ie 500mm being equivalent to 10x binoculars? So it would be great understand how to achieve a monster zoom to film the moon or even jupiter. All the best

Welcome! Yeah, sure. Try those settings with your lenses too. They should just give you a flatter look for colour grading. Worst case scenario, you can always change your settings back :)

@@justalexhimself thanks for the info. Will try tomorrow morning. Is a low f-stop lens necessary to create good depth of field in situations like "soap opera" type of conversation scenes?

@@thatsreallyamoon the low f stop helps a lot. But if you don't have a low f stop lens, take your 45mm lens, and place it close to your subject at the lowest possible aperture and due to the lens compression you might still get some depth of field :)

you're super welcome! and thank you for supporting the channel :)

Hi! thank you for your comment. OK so: 1. You need to put your camera to record in AVCHD mode not MP4 (which is what it's set to straight out of the box) 2. I can't answer this because I edit in Premier Pro... so I don't se the colour space to anything, I just see whatever premier shows me. 3. No, I don't think there is an advantage in shooting in 4k. The bit rate is too low for 4k for the most part and so the image breaks. If I were you I would just stick with shooting in 1080p ;) Hope this helps :)

@@justalexhimself yes, a little later I realized that there is such a mode in AVChD, you answered all the questions) the only thing that does not leave me alone for the second day is whether this mode is really better than mp4? It seems that I did several tests and did not notice much difference :(

@@ThirtySixCrew it's better, because if you check the file sizes AVCHD takes up more space on the memory card and is therefore less compressed than mp4, so in theory it should colour grade better :)

@@justalexhimself Apparently there is only a difference in shooting at 25p, because at 50p there seems to be no difference :) in any case, thanks for responding! good luck to you!

It's just a thumb grip that goes into the hot shoe. You can search in amazon its only around $9. You're welcome!

GREAT THANKS MILLION!! I was looking for something like that!

it's not the best thumb grip in the world, but it's better than without it

Don't know - never used the gx9, so can't comment

Thank you! haha it will be a complicated video - because I never colour grade two videos in the exact same way.

loads of options on the market. I'd just look for a cheap-ish clip on dichtaphone that you can carry with you at all times :)

So in short: the UK / European versions of this camera shoot in 50 fps max. The US versions have 60p. You can indeed hack your GX80 to get those additional 10 frames per second (there are other tutorial on KZfaq explaining how to do this) but I wouldn't recommend it. In reality you won't see a difference between 50p and 60p. So just shoot in 50fps and then slow it down in post production to get the slow-mo effect :)

@@justalexhimself I have just done as you said and the result was totally fine with 50p/24p slo-mo. Thank you for your help you made my day!

Yeap, same settings as in this video :)

@@justalexhimself thank you very much.

I don't think it's possible to deactivate that notification. I think as soon as the camera detects a manual lens on the body, the notifications will always pop up..

you need to set those settings in Manual Movie mode, and then save it to C1. If you set settings in P or A or S, it will save the auto-exposure setting too

@@justalexhimself Wow thank you so much for the reply, that's really helpful, appreciate it!

It's the 'M movie mode' , not the 'M' photography :)

@@justalexhimself okey, but some options are still inactive, like Photo Style, Snap Movie, Rec Format, Rec Quality and some others.. It is my first camera and figuring it out really makes me confused... :(

@@edytaobacz2671 me too...i'dont understand why. Do you have any solution ?

Just record with the in-cam mic -AND- the remote solution (both). Then it's easier to sync in post. (then in post, after things are in-sync, just mote the camera audio)

Hacked a different camera - and it stopped working properly, so for now I'm using it without the hack

I installed the vine profiles on 4 cameras already and never had any issues

That's the aperture. I'm shooting on a different/faster lens to you which goes down to f1.7. The lower the number, the more light it lets in.

Your lens probably has a ring on it where you can set it. The higher the number the more will be in focus at the same time

I like prime lenses: 1) 20mm f1.7 2) olympus 45mm f1.8

nah, it's not too bad. A bit small so I rarely use it. But still it's useful in bright light when you can't always see the screen properly.

@@justalexhimself thanks a lot!

No, aspect ratio is 16x9

​@@justalexhimself not true.

Nope. Lowest aperture is f3.5 at 12mm

Not sure :/ I think because apple devices don't read AVCHD codec well... try recording in mp4

Not sure 😕

I don't know because I've not hacked mine

JustAlex Himself thanks for the super quick reply! Great stuff 💪🏻

1080p ftw!

@@justalexhimself just got the camera so i cant say much...but it seems so strange to prefer 1080 from 1080 that comes from 4k, i mean in post...but we ll see , hehe

@@justalexhimself until what ISO you believe its 1080 museable? i have the 12-32 and in some tests i get noise at 1000 ...is this usual? i never owned a micro 4/3 camera before

@@sardanapalos I don't go past iso 800. Indeed, iso performance in m43 isn't great

Zoom H1N

Thank you. I have a Zoom H4n so that will work.

No, actually I stopped using nd filters a long time ago. All the sample shots that you saw were just exposed with the shutter speed alone :)

@@justalexhimself how about the scene is too bright? You have to bump up shutter speed? But still your videos look cinematic!

@@endlesswaltz29 yeah I just expose everything with the shutter. Rules are made to be broken ;)

@@justalexhimselfnice! Good to know, no need to for me to buy nd filter to make good films thanks!

Yup!

Nowadays, mostly 20mm f1.7 and Olympus 45mm f1.8

Thanks for asking - thanks for the answer @JustAlex

Are you sure that everything is set on Manual ? Manual ISO, Manual WB, No automatic features enabled, so that the camera doesn't start adjusting things by itself?

Hi, Alex! Thanks for your response. Yes, I'm on Manual mode and adjust all parameters by myself. I also tried auto mode, but picture looks the same, with a lot of grain. After many attempts to understand the reason, I reset to factory settings, but nothing has changed...

Мария Сорокина the only way I have solved this is when I reseted the whole camera to factory default

20mm f1.7 or olympus 45mm f1.8

@@justalexhimself Thanks. I'm searching a used Gx80.... It seems a good choise for quality/price even if not recently

4k is in mp4 and has a crop factor. I prefer the 1080p in avchd. Nicer codec to work with for colour grading etc.

Yeah I personally like it at -5 especially in higher iso, it looks much better

Just send it to me - I will take it ;)

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