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With the help of our AI friends, the first Panasonic hack since the GH2 has arrived. So far the S9 and GX80 have the hack. It auto-executes code from the card at boot, enabling the same kind of range of mods Magic Lantern does but on Lumix cameras for the first time. It takes compiled C code binaries and Arm64 code. The CPU is extremely powerful... 64bit vs the 32bit EOS R5. More info soon. GM5 and GX9 to follow

When you run code in RAM you can do pretty much anything like Magic Lantern or the Sigma Fp hacks, so raw video, open gate and V-LOG for the GX80 is definitely on the cards. The S9 has a 64bit CPU so plenty of power to play with there. Got to explore the hardware now and build the first proper feature for it so keep an eye on the blog for further developments!

Skipped Doom on the S9... Went straight to Quake at 60fps. It makes the EOS R5 look like a bit of a potato. Blog post and YouTube video coming soon.

Thanks for watching, and for the proper look. Sensors: the one in the middle is completely clear. The rails partly cover the two side by side ones, but never both at once. Straight down always stays open, and when you tilt, one of them still sees the ground. Z axis keeps working. Arca: I went against it on purpose. Most Arca plates are made for mirrorless bodies, and I don't trust them, or most heads with an Arca clamp, with a fully kitted 4D. Most fluid heads from prosumer up take the Manfrotto plate, so I know the head can hold it. I didn't want anyone breaking a small travel tripod and their camera with it. Mics in frame: with my 9mm pointing straight down, yes, they can show. But you'd have to hold the camera at a really odd angle. Long before that the gimbal hits its end stop or the head touches the lower bracket, so you tilt the whole camera down anyway, and then they're out of frame again. Flex: I use the Flex cable with it all the time. I have a quick release on top of the mic bracket, so I pop the bracket off, press the release and put it back. Without that quick release the bracket sits low enough to reach the button directly. Vibration: no issues so far. The printed part takes out the big vibrations, and the mics sit far from the motors and from your hand, so it sounds good even on a fixed mount. Sony's FX6 top handle barely isolates its mic either and works fine, often better than a small shock mount. Fixed is also stronger and lasts longer. The one thing you do hear is the follow focus motor on a hard rack, and no isolator fixes that. Cheers, Nick

From the video's description:

Are you just testing the ability to hack and moving on, or will you eventually add features like raw video, log profiles, etc... where possible?

Exactly it's a multiplier not a remove the human from the loop clanker. More people should embrace it!

This cam is one of my faves (EAG :- )

I have seen that, thanks. Idk, how much more recording time you'll get shooting 2:1? It's my understanding that the camera can only give an estimate based on uncompressed cDNG not with lossless. Right now with OG3.5K on a 128gb card, the camera shows 6-7 minutes. Google AI told me, I could expect 10-11 with lossless, which is great but still not enough to justify, considering how many V90 SD cards I'd have to buy. The OG2.5K is so good that 30 minutes (roughly in lossless) to a V60 card is perfect for my needs. Don't get me wrong, I prefer the 3.5K, and would consider it with an SSD, I suppose, if I look at it like Hitchcock would... shoot VistaVision with a 1.85:1 release. I also have to research, test, if the hack is on a card, can I just leave it there and still record to SSD. I haven't tested it enough to the point where I needed to format cards, but having to delete clips, or upload the scripts every time is kinda annoying. All that said, I have been swamped with work and family stuff, so I haven't had much time to mess with it. So far, just my first half hour outing, but this has completely changed my entire gameplay going forward and I have been rearranging some buying/selling of lenses, and working on some scripts to utilize it. If anyone is interested, here's another frame from the OG2K mode with the Minolta 35mm 1.8... the other two I posted were at iso 3200 and I think this one was 100... sorry I couldn't find a cat to shoot...

My mind keeps coming back to the GX85, and I've realised that (yet again) it's far more capable than I'd given it credit for. To this end, I did some additional testing by shooting some night cinema on Halloween. This batch has my Super-16mm film emulation on them, but there's other grades below. What I've worked out is that there's an incredible synergy between the: The GX85 itself (of course!) paired with small lenses Resolve and the Film Look Creator The 1x, 2x, and 4x in-camera digital zoom function It will come as no surprise to anyone here that the GX85 combined with small lenses provides a very small and light rig, the tilt screen and customisable buttons gives great ergonomics, and the assist features are great too (setting the display to B&W, have coloured focus peaking enabled, exposure meter and the histogram all combine to give a great UI that doesn't need an external monitor). Where the synergy comes in is using the in-camera crop modes combined with the Film Look Creator in Resolve. If you like the look of Super-16mm film, then the 1x and 2x and 4x modes are all usable and give the following FOVs with my tiny lenses: Panasonic 14mm F2.5 AF lens gives 31mm at 1x, 62mm at 2x, and 124mm at 4x Panasonic 25mm F1.7 AF lens gives 55mm / 110mm / 220mm FOVs TTartisans 17mm F1.4 MF lens is faster than the above and gives 37mm / 75mm / 150mm FOVs Risespray 35mm F1.6 MF lens is fast too and gives 77mm / 154mm / 300mm FOVs If you prefer the extra resolution of Super-35mm film then you're still good with the 1x and 2x modes, but the 4x might be a little too soft depending on your tastes. It does depend on the lens though, and lots of stuff shot on S35 in the past was on lenses that weren't as sharp as the GX85 4x mode. Having the combo of a 31mm / 62mm FOVs, or 37mm / 75mm can be incredible for shooting events and street stuff, not to mention travel and general out and about shooting. It's even quicker than using a zoom because you don't even need to re-focus when swapping FOVs! Here's the 1x, 2x and 4x on the 25mm with my custom S16 emulation which also includes a lens emulation too: If those are too retro / soft / degraded, these are with a 35mm grade and without the lens emulation, so should be a bit cleaner: Or you can make it cleaner again by lowering the diffusion a touch and adding a tiny bit of sharpening under the emulation: and here's the 1x / 2x / 4x with that grade: Hell, you could even use the 65mm setting, which when combined with some sharpening looks like this: I'm not sure if it's going to replace my GH7 as my main camera, but in situations when I don't need the extra DR or IBIS modes, it's a real contender for sure. The level of enthusiasm about the new GoPro shows there's interest in smaller camera packages and having used the setup again I'm reminded why - the experience is so freeing. The GoPro has advantages over the GX85 for sure, but for this type of shooting, the GX85 with its IBIS wins hands-down for me. Also, the better at grading I get, the less I miss the OG BMPCC and the more I feel the GX85 does what I want the OG BMPCC to do.

Very nice shots 👍