Hi, I'm Jason. I just wanted to
tell you a little bit about the Panasonic gh3 which we
recently used on a 13-episode TV drama
which we shot. One of the reasons we loved it so much
on production is that it has a couple new features
over the gh2 which allowed us to
really record sound well and monitor sound.
So first up it has sound input, now the gh2 had a sound input as well
but this is a 3.5 millimeter plug and it just means
less components going into camera this is a normal 3.5 millimeter
plug which means you can take a normal
mini plug like this and go straight into camera and the gh2 we needed to
use a separate little plug like this which was
a 3.5 to 2.5 millimeter converter.
It also has something that which we loved
which was a headphone plug a normal 3.5 millimeter plug
mini-jack. Use any headphone to monitor sound. You can monitor sound
live or you can monitor what is actually recorded to
SD card and that means you get a little bit of a lag with sound but
not enough to bother you while you're recording and it really gives you a good
sense of exactly what
has been recorded it was fantastic. There are also
audio levels on screen and there
is an audio gain setting which you can change during recording
but during out drama of course we never used the audio gain
on the camera at all we switch that down to the lowest level and then used
this preamp.
Its a Juicedlink this one is the
Riggy Assist to 202 we also have the Riggy Assist is 333 we love JuiceLink
it is a very very quiet preamp with very
low noise floor, this one has two XLR inputs
and it comes out mini jack
to camera mini jack. There is also a
headphone monitoring out of the Riggy Assists
but we generally used the headphone monitoring on camera because
that really gives a sense of exactly what has been recorded
rather than what is going through the JuicedLink. A very good preamp
very well worth the money. One of the things we
don't like so much is the fact that the audio meters
turn off after about 10 seconds or so
while you're recording... there you go all the display turns off in fact
and we really need to
see audio levels all the way through a performance
or recording so please Panasonic if we can change this and the next
firmware update it would be fantastic. So there you go you've got the audio
meters there and in a few seconds it will turn off like that. We have to
to tap the screen again to see it. Other than the fact that the audio meters
turn off on the display after a few seconds we love the gh3
it really is a workhorse on production. The fact that we can monitor audio
directly from the camera
and have audio go straight in with three-and-a-half millimeter
mini jack is fantastic, XLR would've been great but
we don't actually expect that on prosumer camera yet.
Their image quality is fantastic we'll talk about that more n
other videos so yeah gh3 - it's a great production camera
for filming short films even TV series!