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GH5 in Real Estate Photo & Video & 12-60mm Smooth Iris Shift

Photo Moment - May 26, 2017

I just did a nice Real Estate shoot yesterday using the GH5, and wanted to share the process, camera settings, and more.

 

PRODUCTS MENTIONED IN TODAY'S PHOTO MOMENT (MANY ARE AFFILIATE LINKS… affiliate links make me a little bit of $ but cost you nothing more!):

•• Panasonic Leica 12-60mm f/2.8-4 ••
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•• Panasonic Lumix G Vario 7-14mm f/4.0 ASPH ••
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•• Manfrotto Nitrotech N8 Video Head ••
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VIDEOS MENTIONED IN TODAY'S PHOTO MOMENT:
Unboxing: Manfrotto Nitrotech N8 Video Head Tripod: https://youtu.be/t1l-Kc0DG98
Real Estate Photography: https://youtu.be/H35e-rQtwTU
Interior Design Photography: https://youtu.be/jUjIw2NVyXY

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Did you use any flash power to light these?
No flash!
Is there a setting for a smooth iris shift manually in Aperture Priority mode on the Cinema setting? Mahalo
@@photojoseph Thank you!
No setting; it happens automatically but only on the newest lenses.
Don’t you lose quality in 120fps?
Well, yes and no. You definitely need more light. Basically the slowest shutter speed you can shoot is 1/120th second, and ideally it’d be 1/240th. So there’s that. If you have enough light, it looks amazing.
@Photo Joseph Well, I figured out a smoother pan solution, shooting in 4k/3840x2160/59.4fps/,420/8bit/LongGOP,150Mbps and rendering to 1080p at 24fps....= Smooth Pan. I can before rendering, slow the video down about 20 or more % for even smoother panning....what do you think?
Frames per second. In VFR mode.
120? is that the angle setting?
Sounds pretty good. Any time you shoot higher speed than you need and slow it down you’ll smooth it out. Try shooting 1080p 120 and see what you get. You may like that even better.
Great video. Any advice on how to make walk tours? Thank you
fantstic
Hey Joseph!

I thought I would chime in on this topic since I am a big fan of using the smooth iris for shots of subjects when you move from inside to outside. First I want to point out that this iris is in both the 12-60 lenses Panasonic Offers plus the V2 12-35, V2 35-100 and the brand new 8-18 (my favorite new lens for indoor to outdoor work). Another point I want to make is that if you use the Auto video mode you run the risk of a shutter speed change that creates a stutter in the video (I noticed this in the barn pan), I usually use this feature in shutter priority since I can lock the shutter speed on angle and not have it change and only need the iris to change, this is where auto ISO with thresholds comes in handy. I set the ISO to a low of 400 (V-LOG shooter) and a high point that gets me the exposure I need for the interior (usually never higher than 3200) and Bob's your Uncle, you get incredibly smooth exposure changes without any fuss. if you don't want to use Shutter priority but you are worried about the stutter happening when the shutter changes to a faster than desirable shutter speed, you can use the flicker decrease function (the second item on page 3/4 of the movie camera tab) but the problem with this feature is it can only be used with the camera mode dial set to a photo mode (not the video camera mode). Flicker decrease allows you to set the maximum shutter speed the camera will use.

Love the topic BTW,

Matt Frazer
Thanks Matt! And super cool that it's on all those lenses… I didn't know where else it was showing up, so that's great to hear it's on all those models. Can't wait to get the 8-18; I ran into the old iris stutter on the 7-14 the other day because I forgot that it wasn't in there! And in the barn video, I'm quite sure I had the camera in shutter (angle) priority, so the stutter you say may have been playback performance, or more likely, the artifacts of streaming 60p playback through a 24p live stream.
My team and I came across your channel a few months ago and appreciate your perspective on the GH5. Although we will continue to shoot with full frame canon for most of our projects, we did just add the GH5 to our work flow when shooting and integrating 360 video. The Lumix G7 convinced us Panasonic is offering a lot for very little.

More than half of our clients are realtors and although we started the company with 360 interactive web tours, we had to adapt and also offer real estate photography. A technique that offers better quality and will save you time on your real estate shots is to import your 20mp photo into Premiere pro and output in 4k or less. This allows you to create smooth 60fps pans moving around the photo, but giving the illusion of video. You will want to turn progressive off to avoid a jittery look. Feel free to see how we incorporate HDR in real estate 360 www.visibletour.com. -Jared
Messaged you back, but it might be in your spam.
+Visible Tour LLC Cool stuff! I just messaged you through your site. Cheers.
PhotoJoseph I completely agree! Check out the replacement of real estate videos. https://visibletour.com/embed/J6EVpnJnTVmo/ I'm looking at hiring a free lance photographer in Oregon to shoot these. Send me a message if you're interested.
+Visible Tour LLC Thanks for sharing that. Yes, I've done many videoss (or "virtual tours") that way, but of course a panning photo is not the same as video. Parallax happens, trees move, and of course on a really big room, a video pan can cover the entire room where a photo can not.
I just couldn't pass up the Olympus 12-40 F2.8 on ebay...$650 (new USA Model w/Oly warranty). A beautiful lens & will use primarily for stills :].
+Swing Away cool!
why not use a variable ND filter while panning and turn the filter to what is needed to lower the amount of light?
Agreed, Joseph. From a selling point of view... However, since every serious vlogger, videographer needs a (good) variable ND-filter in his bag anyway to get the best results out of (t)his camera, using a ND filter is the only option to get good / professional results.
+Beeldproducent - film-video-foto You certainly can — assuming you have one. A good variable ND is far from cheap, and this is built-in. Just another option in the toolkit!
I have the non Leica - Lumix 12-60mm Kit Zoom on my GH5 and it too seems also to do this smooth aperture shift. Perhaps a trait of the camera and lens in combination. My Olympus 9-18mm opens the aperture automatically using those settings but the transition is not the same smooth transition rather little 'stepped' . Interesting. Do you know of any other lens that seem to provide this seemless transition of aperture opening as the light varies?
+Brian Parr Huh interesting; the plot thickens! I'll have to find out. Ore.
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