Day: July 12, 2011

Above: EOSHD’s hacked GH2 with Zacuto EVF Flip and Iscorama!! Codecs are currently the biggest weakness of DSLR video but that is about to change, and no – not with an external record but inside the camera. The hacker Vitaliy Kiselev says he has had ‘a break-through’ – raising the AVCHD bitrate of the hacked GH2 to an average of 42Mbit – almost double the original Panasonic specification and higher…

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This is the first in a new series of articles dispelling current ‘trends, myths and sacred cows’ in digital video. Currently it’s trendy to tune cameras for more dynamic range. We have CineStyle for DSLRs, HDRx for RED and S-Log for the Sony F3… the list goes on. I feel the technique has overtaken the artist, the gimmick has triumphed over substance and we are operating in a world of…

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