Update Contents for DMC-GH2. Panasonic GH2 gets AVCHD Intra at 176Mbit! Wednesday, 12 October, 2011 17:47 Above: The GH2 and ReWo cage.
(Back in stock here) The professional codec billed by Panasonic as ‘the industry’s most advanced compression format’ has found its way onto the GH2. AVC Intra is usually recorded to extremely expensive P2 cards on high end cameras and here it is on a consumer camera with an SD card. This is a codec that uses i-frames only unlike consumer AVCHD. Now the GH2′s AVCHD codec has been hacked turning it into a i-frame only codec, I’ll call it AVCHD Intra.
A tester on Vitaliy Kiselev’s GH2 hack forum Personal-View named Driftwood has come up with the settings which can be downloaded here. The footage plays back fine in-camera but most computers will struggle to play it smoothly. The format is still 1080/24p 8bit 4-2-0, still no sign of 25p but some users have claimed that 25p can be wrapped by the camera in a 1080/50i stream! AVCHD Intra is very good for heavy colour grading, fast action, hand held footage and green screen VFX work. Compatibilities of DMC-GH2. Compatibilities of DMC-GH2 with other manufactures' products.
Below diagrams do not guarantee complete performance. For each camera's available functions, please read the Operating Instruction Manual bundled with each camera body. Your camera body firmware and lens firmware are recommended to be updated to the latest available version. Firmware update service Note: AF=Auto Focus, AE=Auto Exposure, Shutter Button*=One shot AF operation in response to pressing the Shutter button halfway. Basic and beginner questions. ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS. GH2 Patch Vault, most popular patches in one place. Official Low GOP topic, series 2. Birger Engineering, Inc. Compatibilities of DMC-G1 and DMC-GH1. Compatibilities of DMC-G1 and DMC-GH1 with other manufactures' products.
Below diagrams do not guarantee complete performance. Please note that all compatibility results assumed that all firmware have applied on both of the camera bodies and lenses. For each camera's available functions, please read the Operating Instruction Manual bundled with each camera body. Please note that DMC-G1 does not have a motion picture recording function. Your camera body firmware and lens firmware are recommended to be updated to the latest available version. Firmware update service Compatible lenses with DMC-G1 and DMC-GH1 Note: AF=Auto Focus, AE=Auto Exposure, Shutter Button*=One shot AF operation in response to pressing the Shutter button halfway (*1) Direction detection related functions on DMC-G1/GH1(ex. a function to rotate and play back pictures vertically when they are shot with the camera held vertically) are not available. (*4) Wireless shooting is not available.
We Build Photographic Hot Rods! Panasonic GH2 autofocus speed. Update: Since this test, I have compared the GH1 and GH2 head to head under exactly the same conditions.
I have tested the autofocus speed for the Panasonic Lumix GH2 with various lenses. The test was done by turning on the camera (which leaves the lens at near infinity focus), and then pressing the shutter to see how long time it takes to reach focus. This was filmed using a GH1, and I played back the video in a video editing software, to read out the timings. There is fairly dull indoor lightning. The lightning corresponds to around EV 6, the same as in my previous test of the GH1. Here is an example test. This combination gives a rather slow autofocus. Another example using the Lumix G 14mm f/2.5 pancake: As you see, the Lumix 14mm lens focuses very fast.
Another example, using the Leica Lumix DG 45mm macro: This lens does not focus as fast as some of the other lenses, but it's still fair to say that the focus is not slow. Summary. Topics List. Topics List - Personal View Talks. Panasonic GH2 hack / PTools released. Tuesday, 05 July, 2011 15:49 Vitaliy Kiselev has released the GH2 hacking tool PTools V3.60d Breaking news – continuously updated… The tools offers initial support with ‘many ported patches’ from the GH1 hack.
Bitrate increase patches are for testers, and the hack is in it’s earliest exploratory stages. If you are a GH2 owner please head over to Vitaliy Kiselev’s site Personal-View.com and see if you can offer a rational contribution to the project by methodologically exploring the current test patches in an effort to discover what parameters mean and what effect they have on the camera. As with any new hack or update, please be cautious. Jay Shaffer Video » Blog Archive » Why the (hacked) Panasonic GH1 is a better video camera than the Canon5DMk2.
If you are a Canon 5Dmk2 fanboy you may want to shut your eyes.
The lowly Panasonic GH1 just got supercharged with a firmware hack that makes a great HDSLR video camera even better. Here is my list of things that make the GH1 a better video camera than the 5D. First let’s take a look at the 800-pound gorilla in the room, The Canon has a full frame 35mm sensor, therefore, there is no crop factor when using 35mm lenses. The PTool Manual (WIP)