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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

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.

Does this still look like a "GoPro"?

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!

I suspected as much... I have been attempting to use the gopro ils in a unconventional way, after my dad passed away we had a bit of a clean up. A box or two of slides turned up, so i did some research and it seems the jjc slide copier does the job, so one of them was ordered. It seems to work ok once its assembled i have had the olympus 60mm macro lens attached to the e-m10 ii and i get ok images i think. There's a strong colour cast and a bit soft but for the nostalgia factor alone it wins, i guess. Oddly enough inside photos with flash come up decently sharp. I should add i suspect these slides are probably older than me. 🙂 The 60mm olympus doesn't work on the ils as the olympus is electronic and ils has no contacts and it came as no surprise that it didnt work lol. With the mission1 ils the only macro lens i have is a pentax m42 100mm f4. The issue i have is i think i'm let down by the minimum focal length on the lens is longer than what the jjc allows for. Wondering if some extension tubes attached on the front of the lens would help at all?. Its that or i buy a shorter focal length macro lens, which i'm not keen to do at the moment seeing its mostly just an expiriment.

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?

Solved! Live View over Micro HDMI on Samsung NX2000 is finally possible Hey everyone! For years the consensus was that the NX2000 hardware physically blocked Live View when an HDMI cable was plugged in, forcing it into gallery mode. We managed to bypass this limitation by using a hidden factory 3D demo mode (hdmidemo.adj) and applying in-memory RAM patches to force it into 2D, redirecting the native 720x480 live buffer directly to the TV video window via /dev/fb0 ioctls. Continuous AF/MF switches and the lens ring focus are working live too! You can check the full source code, scripts, and how to set it up here: https://github.com/michumichifu/nx2000-hdmi-live

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...

Have you seen the updates on the site here? https://www.elcacharrista.com/en/articles/hacking-the-sigma-fp-with-ai/ New updates 28 October 2026 · composer on Bei’s Loader v4, with Res-Custom 0.1.6j · 2:1 3.5K format (3552×1776) up to 50 fps, framed 2:1 on screen, and 12-bit to SD. 5 October 2026 · fpSup-Formats v0.6.0 · new OG4K format, Crop Mode on OG4K and OG3.5K, lossless compression and gyroscope data that remember their state on the card, and our own composer to build it. 3 October 2026 · fpSup-Formats v0.3.2a · S16 up to 100 fps.

Progress report The GF1 in a world first is hacked and runs apps automatically after boot-up, with an autoexec.bin file on the card. Onto the GH1 and GH2 next. Efforts for the GX80 are ongoing.

I think a lot of people don't understand what this revolution is :- )

An update on the Sony RX10 IV side... It's able to run scripts! This was a small test C script. Next is to get it to automatically run code off the card at normal boot-up without service mode or USB tethering.

GH2 hack project could be coming back soon without a dirty russian... stay tuned.

Have you also seen someone unlocked open gate on the BMPCC6k? It apparently also works on the BMPCC4k The same person is also working on getting 4 track audio and continuious AF on that same camera. There are samples in the comments - here's the link: https://onedrive.live.com/?id=%2Fpersonal%2Ff4ef3cccd6a0c849%2FDocuments%2Freddit&listurl=%2Fpersonal%2Ff4ef3cccd6a0c849%2FDocuments&ithint=folder&e=1qTGIJ&migratedtospo=true&redeem=aHR0cHM6Ly8xZHJ2Lm1zL2YvYy9mNGVmM2NjY2Q2YTBjODQ5L0lnQW5ZcThfZHlMdFNxNGRyR2VqR09xaUFkczFqT1pFZVBENVlWUUwwa2lFYkJBP2U9MXFUR0lK&ga=1 It seems manufacturers can't really keep features back for more expensive cameras anymore. Be gone, Cripple Hammer!

Some more progress with Mario 64 on the EOS R5 The camera has a GPU hidden away with OpenGL. Software rendering is out. Mario is now rendering on the GPU which means the Nintendo 64 of cameras just got a significant hardware bump. The previous version ran only in software (ARM CPUs), the GPU version looks identical at the moment but with much more headroom to go gangbusters on frame rate, resolution and 3D rendering techniques. It would wind up being useful for photography and filmmaking apps if it had OpenGL general compute capabilities, still exploring that bit. Meanwhile I have my film emulation app that started on the 5D Mark II working on the EOS R5 (and soon R8). They are beasts of a camera, let's hope it doesn't over heat

Made something that GenZ can appreciate.

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

What a fucked up insight it is into software dev and releasing stuff I've had so far in 2026. Seems that influencers have conditioned everyone to expect everything for free, you just can't charge money for work any more even if it is a cutting edge NLE, they expect open source, free, and zero copyright so they can clone the source code and offer their own. Dark days ahead. It seems partly a generational thing not just social media (I hope not) but the internet crowd is tough to please for the camera hacks too. The Mario 64 stuff went nowhere. On reddit even outright hostility - a mix of luddites and anti-AI. A lot of the younger folk who have grown up without computer skills (phone conditioned) don't seem to appreciate the technical side at all, or have that nice pirate outlook on it. They have gone from punks to a "why would I risk bricking my valuable possession" mindset, and I don't remember this being the case in 2013 with Magic Lantern and the 5D Mark II raw video mod, even pros we using it. The internet needs sorting out. It's a cesspool.

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 :- )

Local inference on 12GB VRAM, alpha mattes, 16-bit EXR, ACEScg and 3D-guided rendering are a different proposition from generating random clips from text prompts. If temporal consistency, edge quality and render times hold up in production, this could significantly change what smaller VFX teams can achieve without expensive infrastructure. The real question is no longer whether AI has a place in filmmaking, but how quickly production workflows will adapt to it.

Don't worry nothing will be worth releasing at this rate anyway, as the social media influencers would have flooded the market with magic lantern based bait for free and sucked up all the attention out the room. Mario (NES version) on 200D has millions of views on Instagram. Mario 64 on a camera never hacked before (R8 and R5)... Crickets. If this has taught me a lesson, it is that the internet is no longer about merit.

Maybe becoming used to low effort software has also taught people to be skeptical when the real thing shows up. As you said, pros used to load ML on the camera they used for a real income, myself included, but there's no way I'm putting someone else's vibecoded mod on my P6k Pro. I guess ML came (comes?) with a comminuty that help troubleshoot and support which felt exciting to be part of. I did however do that hardware mod for my P4K, which puts a V-mount on the back and moves the monitor to the top. It was made by someone who put in real knowledge and thought, and that's what's worth paying for. But of course it was a lot more effort on my side than simply loading up an SD card. Last thing on the Switch comment - the software used to play them on Mac doesn't supply any keys or anything, they all come with the game when you buy it. You could equate it to burning CDs. If you own the original CD (or in this case, game) you can make a usable backup. It's only when you start distributing or illegally obtaining that music that problems could occur. Whether people actually buy the Switch games or find them elsewhere isn't in the NXNative dev's control, so how can they be liable?

Very nice shots 👍

I expect you still need the private keys to break encryption so they run without the Switch's ROM's encoder/decryption service. This is nothing like how Magic Lantern worked. You should be grateful there are people willing to take that risk. And at least they make the effort to understand the legal side, unlike the armchair internet experts. Yes I agree, how dare they run a business in communist camera town. ---- The same people whinging about an indie dev selling a genuinely amazing tool for $5 are the ones who happily pay Adobe $50 per month on a subscription, the monster which their dumb attitude towards software licenses created in the first place. I have never seen such an entitled generation of users in my life when it comes to software. Every smartphone app is now freemium junk, that relies on gating features behind a subscription because nobody wants to pay the $5 one off up front. Open source and free is the fastest way to find the bottom of the software quality barrel. If you can't pay the devs, yet expect them to answer customer support requests 100 times a day, how do you expect them to keep grinding at the millstone and updating the project? Why do you think so much of the open source stuff gets abandoned by the main devs? Even Magic Lantern at one point too? I just think the whole attitude is fucking stupid to be honest.

Crop can be scaled and moved.

I agree, the Sony looked super digital in that comparison. I don't think it's a sensor size thing, as there are other videos from the GoPro that look more digital than the Sony did in that video, and if it was a sensor size thing then the GoPro would never look that digital. No, but my impression if I'd seen it blind and had to guess would be a modern mirrorless of some kind. It didn't have the magic of some of the older classic cameras, and the older non-classic cameras never get used anymore, so that only leaves modern cameras! Still there are some shots where it looked sharp and the colours rec709-ish enough to look modern (like the slow-moving deep DOF wides from the drone). In my mind the GoPro is now solidly in the territory where you can get almost any look you want from it, provided that you know what you're doing enough. This is great news as the tools available have never been more accessible or easier to use. It really does look like a great option if its particular quirks don't clash with your particular needs.

Added 1.33x anamorphic support. Just tap the icon and you’re ready to use it. The preview will be automatically desqueezed, and the RAW Adjust view will automatically rotate to landscape mode with the 1.33x icon displayed. GPU and h265 (ISP) modes are also desqueezed. You can crop the image to remove vignetting, or use the 20:9 crop to fill your phone screen as much as possible.

Before anything, thanks for digging deep into the R5/R8, it would be unbelievably awesome once we can get to use Opengl for image processing on Digic X Canon cameras I probably read the exact reddit reply you're referring to here a few days ago. The redditor who replied was the perfect mix of immaturity, ignorance and cynicism. And an utter tool I think the negativity around vibecoding is usually spewed by those who are at the left peak of the dunning kruger curve - they don't know the effort and time required for the reverse engineering (especially if the system is offline/cannot be remotely accessed) and testing

Today, a slightly goosed Sony RX10 IV arrives from MPB (well... it might do) I've got Claude waiting behind the door with a scythe. The plan is to use a file called "bootin.elf" This little elf (or goblin?) is the Sony equivalent to Canon's famous autoexec.bin I'll see where I can get with it. The Panasonic hacking is hitting a bit of a dead end but more hopeful with the Sony cameras - I don't want to go down the old Android PlayMemories route either - got to be something to offer the new cameras not just the A7R II or A6000! Reversing tool is here if anyone fancies having a go on their A7 III or newer... https://github.com/ma1co/sony-pmca-re

By the by, one of the new firmwares for that FM-1 synth I was talking about was widely - and rightly - praised for how good it was and how completely transformative it was for the unit. People absolutely loved it. Then he had the temerity to want to sell it. Well you can imagine what happened next.

Sadly, it’s just part of the world that we now live in. It peaked for me around 1986/87, though at the time as a teen, I did not realise or appreciate it. I rank my decades as: 1980’s, 1970’s, 1990’s, 2000’s, 2010’s with the 2020’s firmly in last place… I don’t think the world/society is fucked as such, just that it is in decline and the more it is (IMO), the less I take part in it and do my own thing(s) instead. Unfortunately, the human race & society cannot be hacked…

Maybe someone can reduce the file sizes of Red Raw on the ZR to around 20-25% of the size and then after that, work on adding IBIS to the FP2 so that it can be purchased by the other 95% of potential purchasers.

ALL ABOUT IT: https://www.eoshd.com/news/eoshd-backrom-hack-mario-64-on-the-canon-eos-r8/

I have also been looking at the Panasonic cameras for Canon style Claude opportunities. My S9 is very bolted down and not getting very far. My G9 II takes the ROM dump service mode key combo (AF-ON + PLAY + POWER ON) but the ROM dump options are like your G81 - they dump meta data and camera settings not a firmware dump from RAM so Claude can't take a look at the unencrypted ROM binary. The S9 doesn't even take the key combo which is odd as G9 II and S9 are same gen. The other avenue in USB PTP commands to trigger a deeper service mode of some sort, but one of these commands crashed my G9 II so I backed off after that. Might be worth probing on a throwaway camera though. After the GH1 and GH2 hack I think Panasonic bolted down the hatches! Still hopeful it can be figured out though.

When the algorithm finds an audio recording, the "+Audio" button turns green (batch processing is possible). Another screenshot shows the experimental AI edit and halation window in RAW adjust.

Added: Support for ColorChecker and CCPPV2 video targets. See: how to Currently working on: Audio sync for Zoom H1e: When the user clicks the "+Audio" button, the app automatically searches the connected device or folder. Auto Edit / Quick Export: When multiple clips are selected, the app can automatically export them from RAW to H.264 or H.265 with a predefined total length for easy sharing. Minor adjustments: Users can make small manual tweaks to the edit before exporting.

So I was also able to get the OG3.5K to record to SD card which is crazy. But it isn't really practical since I'd only get about 10 minutes per 128gb v90 card. Anyway, here's a frame from that mode, if anyone is interested...

The 4k 100fps is just crazy detailed and lots of latitude IMO (given it's an action cam). I've been experimenting by taking short bursts of 5s and finding just the right moment, focus, FOV. I wonder if others shoot like this. It works fairly well as a substitute for having to take actual photos. I know it's not a real photo camera, but it works great in a pinch and with some interesting features.

The 1/200 rule feels more like a starting point than a real answer, especially once the shot has any movement in it. Plenty of people will take nicer motion over clinical sharpness every time, which is basically why 16mm refuses to die.

Update: Added a real RAW preview Added 2K RAW with anti-aliasing. RAW-to-H.265 conversion is now much, much faster. I’m working on automatic CC PPV2 color target readout and calibration. I’m also working on the website and have uploaded some temporary sample footage here: https://agacia.pl/tmp/

I respect that choice. But I'm also not going to post every build that's offered. Maybe if I see another that catches my eye. Currently working on a new idea: FILM MODE gives you all of the film presets in some or all of 4:3, 16:9, 1.85:1, and 2.35:1, puts shutter angle on the shooting screen, and offers 23.98 and 25fps. VIDEO MODE gives you all of the standard broadcast and consumer sensor presets (2/3", 1/2", 1/2.3", 1/3", and 1/4") in 16:9 or 4:3 if possible. Choose between 23.98, 25, and 29.97fps. See shutter speed on the shooting screen, and ISO is replaced by Gain/dB. Suddenly, you can you can accurately frame for ten different lens standards, plus anamorphic. Show me another camera that can do that! This is such a cool little camera.

I don't know if I have any cameras that record in 8-bit at this point, but I can certainly poke around a little. Worst case, I could go even lower-fi and just shoot it on the PXL-2000.

Hey Panny, hope all is well! Yeah that was shot on Arri LogC, but I have been kinda anti-log lately so the next time I take her out, I think I'm going to mess around with CineLikeD/V. Log is kinda boring and the noise in the shadows is just atrocious. I'm thinking of selling the GH6 and FP to fund a Nikon. N-Raw with SDR Tone sounds like an amazing concept to me. All of the benefits of raw and 12bit color with a rec709 picture profile like Nikon Flat or one of the new Red Picture Profiles really interests me. That said, the GH6 is a great camera and overall I much prefer Arri LogC to vLog!

Hard to say really other than at the time, it was easily the best ‘raw’ footage I was getting out of any camera and I am pretty sure that log vs log, no baked in LUT, it would stack up with any contemporary full frame L Mount. Opinion rather than fact. It was and still is such a great bit of kit. In terms of my use case, the S1Rii is better (AF, bake in a LUT, IBIS) but build and handling, the S1H. Otherwise, a new L Mount camera is supposedly coming next week and a successor to the S1H some time in the first 1/2 of 2027, but we’ll see… The L10 was only ever intended as an ‘EDC’ for me and I didn’t expect it to really work in my working environment and that use case was only really because one of my S9’s had stopped working . I was…and still might, picking up another S9 for the 2027 season but no rush and interested to see what else comes along in the next 6 months…

Interested!

I might film with my point-n-shoot instead of the charmera (which is probably the worst video camera anyone on this forum owns). Not really sure what else is a useful limitation that everyone can meet? Maybe start a new thread to get some visibility and see who else is interested?

Vectroscope added to main screen and RAW post-processing.

Right now, I'm still debugging the GUI (portrait/landscape), cleaning up the code, and trying to push the Oppo Reno 2Z to its limits on RAW capture, see calibrated 2K samples below. Will post an update soon.

I would have published the demo already, but I’m currently having a problem with GUI rotation between portrait and landscape modes — it used to work, and then suddenly stopped. RAW/RAWC does a nice job of compressing the full usable dynamic range of the smartphone sensor.I'm still making little adjustments