Panasonic Lumix S5 Advanced Exposure Setup | V-Log S5 | White Balance in Video
The Panasonic LUMIX S5 is an incredible camera with powerful tools that you may not realize existed. I'll show you how to use the waveform monitor, scopes, zebras, and the spot meter in ways you've probably never considered!
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Hello
00:47 - Panasonic video start
01:14 - Vectorscopes for white balance
01:39 - Custom white balance
02:01 - Vectorscope for viewing color shift and saturation
02:31 - Comparing color profiles in the vectorscope (Rec.709, Vivid, V-Log)
03:31 - Understanding the waveform monitor
05:24 - Using waveform monitor and an X-Rite chart to set exposure
06:26 - Enabling and using the Luminance Spot Meter
07:21 - Exposing for V-Log with the Waveform monitor
07:58 - Full dynamic range of V-Log on the Panasonic LUMIX S5
09:14 - Using Zebras to set exposure!
09:44 - Zebra pattern for Base Range
10:49 - Base Range Zebras + Luminance Spot Meter
11:24 - Goodbye
The Panasonic LUMIX S5 is a compelling camera, and many of its best features are buried deep in the system. In this video, I'll show you how to verify accurate white balance by using the vectorscope, show off how different color profiles look on the scopes, show the waveform monitor for monitoring exposure with a grey card, and then give you something truly amazing - a way to use zebra stripes to ensure perfect exposure while shooting V-Log, and then combine that with the Luminance Spot Meter to ensure you never overexpose!
The vectorscope is designed to show you where your colors fall in the scopes, but it also will show you if white is actually white. This is a fantastic way to quickly verify that your white balance is perfectly accurate. It's also a way to see how color profiles might shift your colors. For example, if you switch to a Vivid profile, what's actually happening? Have the blues become more saturated? Have the greens shifted towards yellow? You can see all of this at a glance using vectorscopes.
Then we'll explore the waveform monitor. I'll start by explaining how it all works. What the dotted and dashed lines mean, the differences between 0 IRE (zero IRE) and "video black," where pure white is on the waveform, and what to watch out for so you don't clip your highlights, and finally, how to identify middle grey, at 40 IRE, and ensure your exposure is perfect when using an X-Rite Color Checker Video or X-Rite ColorChecker Passport.
From there, we'll get into very advanced use of Zebras. You're undoubtedly familiar with using them to ensure you don't overexpose by enabling zebra stripes at a high percentage to be warned when your image is overexposed. However, there's also a way to set zebras to only show up in a specific range when shooting in V-Log. This means you can set your zebras to highlight the parts of your scene that are exactly 42 IRE (which it turns out is the middle grey for V-Log, and not 40 IRE like it is for non-Log); which when paired with a grey card, is incredibly powerful! Then, you can enable the Luminance Spot Meter to ensure you don't blow your highlights - which when shooting V-Log is pretty hard to do since you can go as much as +6.3 stops above middle grey and -8 stops below middle grey, for a total of 14.3 stops of dynamic range! These tools will ensure that every shot you get is perfectly exposed - especially when shooting in V-Log!
Finally, in case you're wondering… your LUMIX camera may have V-Log L, not V-Log. V-Log L is the "light" variant of V-Log found on cameras like the LUMIX GH5 and LUMIX G9. This is a slightly lower dynamic range variant of V-Log; however, it is still Log. The S-Series full-frame cameras like the LUMIX S5 and LUMIX S1H have full V-Log, just like the Varicam (professional Panasonic cinema cameras) do. In fact, the "V" in V-Log & V-Log L stands for "Varicam"!
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