- Hey guys, welcome to Travel Feels.
Today, unfortunately, I'm gonna have to tell you
why not to buy the GH5, and if you have,
you might want a refund.
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The GH5 is one of those cameras
that I just want to love so much.
It's really handy: small camera, flip LCD screen,
60P, 4K, 120 frames, 1080,
just a lot of great features,
but there's one thing that really annoys me.
And before I get into it, I want to preface this by saying
I really appreciate what all the camera companies do.
There's just so many amazing camera companies
that are creating amazing cameras.
It's insane how much you can pack
into a little package like the GH5,
but I have to say the V-Log is horrendous on the GH5.
And I don't say stuff like that too often.
I'm pretty lenient, but after shooting with the V-Log
on the GH5 for a little bit, it's just unusable,
absolutely unusable.
It's garbage.
So if you don't know, V-Log is a really flat way of shooting
so you get more dynamic range, more information
so you have a better time in post-processing,
color grading and all that.
So the way Log works on the GH5
is you actually have to pay for it.
You have to order this little code.
It comes in this box, a little code,
and you have to do a whole bunch of stupid stuff.
I don't know who the heck came up with this idea of
having to put it on a memory card,
and then having to download stuff onto the memory card
and back and forth.
It's just a terrible user experience.
I don't know who came up with that,
but they did not do a good job.
And if there's anything we learned from Apple,
it's user experience is so important,
everything from opening the package to turning it on
for the first time, it needs to work well.
I don't know why Panasonic did it this way
because there's definitely easier ways of doing it.
But that's a small thing, it's a one-time headache,
once it's done, it's done,
but the big problem with the V-Log
is the color science of it.
I don't know if you guys noticed,
but when I shot the Little Whistler video,
almost every single clip has weird colors.
It'll go from red to green
to red to green in these little blocks of color,
and it just looks really bad, and it's especially bad
for skin tones, which is the most important thing
when you're filming people.
Skin tones have to look really natural,
and with these weird red and green splotches,
it just doesn't look good at all,
and I would go as far as saying it's unusable.
As soon as I shot that first video,
and started color grading and looking at the footage,
I just realized you can't use this.
And ever since then, I've been shooting in Cine D
instead of V-Log, so I bought this $100 upgrade
to get the V-Log, and it's absolute garbage, unusable.
It doesn't happen as badly in 10-bit footage,
but the eight-bit footage is really bad,
and you're using that a lot, especially for the slow-mo,
the 120 frames per second, and right now you can't do
4K, 60 frames per second in 10-bit either
so you're stuck with eight-bit,
and it just does not look good on the skin tones.
I messaged Panasonic about this, and they were trying to say
that it maybe has something to do with the LUT,
and it definitely doesn't have to do with the LUT.
There is a chance that it has somehow to do with Premiere
but I don't think it's actually with Premiere
because even when I play those clips in Finder
I can see actually where that's happening already
sometimes, so I don't think it actually has to do
with Premiere, I think it's actually the V-Log.
And it also doesn't make sense that it only happens
in the V-Log and then not the Cine-D.
It would happen in both if it had to do with Premiere.
So this is really depressing.
The GH5 was looking like an amazing camera,
decent dynamic range, V-Log, all that great stuff,
but the Log just sucks.
You can't use it.
I do not advise you to use it right now.
It is really bad.
And this should be something that you can make happen.
Almost all the Sony cameras have S-Log 2 or 3,
so you can make it happen in a DSLR, but for whatever reason
Panasonic did not get the job done on the GH5 and V-Log.
And this is not just my footage.
I've looked at other people's video clips
when they used V-Log.
You can really see it in the skin tones,
it goes from green and red, and if you zoomed in on it,
you would really see how bad it is.
I don't know if it'll translate as well on YouTube,
but it's definitely there.
And then there's the other part,
which is if you're an Adobe user,
you cannot edit on the 10-bit footage at all.
It just doesn't play.
You get all this weird stuff sometimes.
It'll have a split-screen on the same clip twice,
it looks really weird.
It doesn't play properly at all,
which is really Adobe's fault,
but I think Panasonic should have been also testing it
and pushing Premiere to get this fixed
'cause that's a really big problem for a lot of people.
I mean, yeah, you can always convert to ProRes,
but you don't want to be forced to
always have to convert to ProRes,
especially if you're on a really tight deadline,
or you're editing a vlog or something like that.
You don't always want to be converting to ProRes,
just 'cause it takes more time.
So this is another really big headache,
really big letdown from Adobe.
I'm just not liking Adobe all that much lately.
Tons of crashes and all that.
I've been thinking about switching over to Resolve
because it's a free program, and they just made a lot of
really good updates on the program,
and not to mention the color grading side of Resolve
is the best there is.
So I'm really starting to think
maybe I should be switching from Adobe.
Adobe costs a lot.
I think it costs too much for what it is right now.
So yeah, it's got me thinking a little bit.
So back to the GH5.
It's really unfortunate
that they really botched up the V-Log.
I really wanted to shoot in Log on the GH5.
So I'm gonna keep using it for now, and see how it is.
Can I make it work with just Cine D?
Guys, sorry for the downer today.
I don't like being too negative
but this is just something that I had to say.
I feel like a lot of people are buying the V-Log
and they really shouldn't be
because it just isn't worth it.
It literally makes every single clip unusable
for the most part.
So I do not recommend you buying it, and if you did buy it,
ask for a refund right now, and if you are really wanting
to shoot in Log on the GH5, I would say, get a refund
for the camera, send it back, 'cause you're not gonna
be able to do that right now.
Hopefully Panasonic fixes this.
Link them on social media.
Ask them what's going on with the V-Log,
and pressure them a little bit, and hopefully they fix it,
and then the GH5 will actually be a really good camera
with nice Log, lots of slo-mo options,
and just a really nice small package.
But until then,
I don't know how much I'm gonna shoot with the GH5.
We'll see.
Maybe it'll still be fine.
All right, that's it for me, guys, today.
Next video will be a little bit more positive hopefully.
Enjoy the film-making process
and go get some of those travel feels.
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