Andrew - EOSHD

I definitely did not get one delivered from a Japanese ebay seller after watching that video in 2021 And have absolutely no plans to go picking it out of the cupboard to see if it works with the PS2 to USB PC adapter I definitely didn't just order. There is absolutely no chance of me being distracted by getting claude to hack up a PC version of the PS2 Densha de Go ROM in a reverse engineering session and making it work on my Windows machine. I don't get sidetracked by things like that any more. And it certainly won't be coming to the EOS R5 later next month. Also no chance of a USB C experiment on that camera with joypads, that would be extremely silly.

Has someone been watching a lot of Techmoan again? 🙂

I need to get myself an S5IIx but can't afford one 🙂 I am more tempted to give the S9 a go and have it be the first camera to run snake!

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

Absolutely brilliant.

I think it looks like a good deal to me. The articulated screen is a big plus over the original cameras. L-LOG too (interesting that they took Leica's rather than make their own Sigma LOG or use Panasonic's). ProRes RAW is to SSD. Internal 8bit Cinema DNG seems to have gone away. All cameras need an HDMI port - far better it be full sized than micro. Autofocus is a big improvement too, as is the open gate sensor, much less rolling shutter, higher resolution recording, bigger battery (the original used the same battery as the GH2!!) I'd rather have one of these over the Z6 III, it only lacks IBIS and internal raw. But as any GH2 owner will tell you... You don't really need either 🙂

Is that list from DPReview, it's wrong... internal L log is there and 10bit and 32bit audio. No Cinema DNG though? Looks like same sensor as Nikon Zr. It's a pity about the lack of IBIS IMHO.

Good write up here on the cine side: https://www.fdtimes.com/2026/10/23/sigma-fp2/

I went on DPR today and they have still not sorted their design out. There's still the massive negative space (holes in the design) and big fan shitty ads. For a cameraholic like me this is cultural vandalism 🙂 But I have a plan to do something about it Here's how it looks like today: The entire 16 inch Macbook display has just 4 lines of editorial content on it - a headline and a short paragraph. I think this is probably a purposeful decision to make you scroll so that more ads appear. But honestly, it's one of the most backward looking website designs I've ever seen. Worse than had it been made in the 90s. If it's worth the effort for you guys I can make a browser extension that revises the design, to get it looking closer to how the original did and use u-block origin to get rid of the ads. It'll take a bit of effort, but if enough people want I'll make it 🙂 Make DPR Great Again!

Sounds good @QuickHitRecordhave you made some interest progress so far. Does it run doom? 🙂 Claude Code and Codex are making a lot of things possible on the camera side, I have a Sigma FP hack in the works as well. This runs on a known Japanese OS (T-Kernel-family RTOS), so patches and features can be run from the SD card. No risky firmware hacking required!

Hopefully S1 II sensor not S5 II!

Really looking forward to this. If it has all the missing stuff... Articulated screen, IBIS, built in EVF, Sony-level autofocus, then I'll be getting one. A lot to pack into an Fp sized body but if anyone can do it, Sigma can. And $2500 would be absolutely fine for something like that with internal raw and a unique form factor that goes after the FX5 and gives it a good mauling. All without shareholder money too... Well done Kazuto san.

By the way, the GH2 was one of the last Panasonic cameras to have unencrypted firmware and then even when encrypted with an update, Vitaliy found a way to decrypt it and make the hack possible. I've been looking into a possible further hack for the GH2, with Claude on the job and making decent progress. LUT -> Custom Photo Style might be possible and a lot of other things!

It looks like our favourite GH2 hacker has shut up shop, personal-view.com is no longer active and the domain points elsewhere. I'll miss it

Dalsa... that rings a bell https://www.ebay.de/itm/128092962391