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Month: July 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…
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…
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/26115801[/vimeo] Learn all about anamorphic shooting – the EOSHD book is now on eBay for just $19.99 The new GH2 hack is in its very early stages but has a helluva cool feature for anamorphic shooting. I thought I’d try it out. One of Vitaliy’s initial patches puts MJPEG video into a 4:3 aspect ratio, the same as 35mm film. I can then use a 2x anamorphic lens to convert…
Donate to Vitaliy Kiselev here Pick up a GH2 body on eBay here Thanks to a leaked firmware update and Vitaliy Kiselev we now have a GH2 hack to experiment with. It’s very early days so don’t expect anything drastic yet. The AVCHD encoder is very different to the GH1, so a lot of testing needs to be done before the right parameters and patches are discovered that improve image…
Vitaliy Kiselev has released the GH2 hacking tool PTools V3.60d Breaking news – continuously updated…
Finally some good news. With today’s leak of new Panasonic GH2 firmware, Vitaliy Kiselev says here that the hack is now due ‘in under a week’. The hack will use the leaked V1.0E firmware as revealed on EOSHD earlier today as its basis. Make sure you download the firmware from the links here before they are taken down. Whilst there is no need to install the new firmware yet do…
UPDATE: firmware is legitimate, and Vitaliy Kiselev is going to use it as basis for next PTools update. So you can try out the firmware if you wish. http://www.mediafire.com/file/cwok7orwdegp2pg/GH2_V10E.zip http://www.filefactory.com/file/cc28149/n/GH2_V10E.zip Original article follows: EOSHD just receieved an email from an anonymous source with a new GH2 firmware to download. Version v1.0E ‘improves stability of 3D photo taking’. And this serves as a timely reminder – Vitaliy Kiselev’s hack is just…