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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!

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

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?

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...

Very nice shots 👍