SamStJohn

Hey I was looking at some motion control parts a while back and after deciding the bescor head wasnt right i found this: [url=http://www.endurance-robotics.com/Products.aspx?sub=0&cat=37]http://www.endurance-robotics.com/Products.aspx?sub=0&cat=37[/url] havent bought or tested it but it looks dope. they sell all sorts of ace parts best sam

Hi Axel Thanks for replying. I am going to unhack it back to standard FW1.1 straight off. Would you recommend shooting with FW1.0 with vanilla as standard? or just straight up no hack? Best Sam

Before i begin, i just want to say i dont mean to sound so negative... i'm just a bit gutted. I bought a GH2 about 5 months ago. I'd been geeking it up online about the hack for a long while. The hack and the high regard the camera was given were the reasons i bought it. When i had the camera, I put on the driftwood Aquamotion hack, bought some fast cards. no real problem apart from getting some slight noise on some shots and having 22 minutes per 16gb card. When i shot a conference and found all my footage to be heavily noisy at ISO 1600 i decided it was time to re-hack. Was wanting to increase the amount of time per card so changed hack to EOS 88 mb/s. Strangly, it didnt increase the time on a 16gb card, it still only gave me 22minutes. Have had nothing but bad results, there is a sort of green/red banding issue in the sun light where the shutter speed is correctly set. Theres noise... EVERYWHERE. i cant go up through the ISOs. shooting everything at 160/200 to try and not get noisy footage. ISO 1600 is dead to the camera. I shot an interview side by side with an un-hacked camera and the noise and loss of quality on the hack is unreal. I cant honestly believe that i am the only one getting these sorts of results. I shot the two cameras side by side on a very un-technical colour chart. I found the hacked GH2 had a massive increase in sensitivity to light. It could see the chart a lot sooner than the un-hacked and it blew out a lot before. theres noise even on ISO 160. This is really annoying me now, and i need to get it fixed asap. first im going to un-hack it. then i might send it back to panasonic and see if its defective, I've already found a burnt pixel on it after my last shoot. its really got me wondering about the hacks and whether its the camera or the software, or if the cameras getting burnt out by the software or whatever.  Like i said at the start, i dont mean to sound negative, im just sharing my experiences, and reaching out for some opinions on this situation. What would you do? Best Sam St. John Paragon Pictures

Hi I have a GH2 which im going to hack and put driftwood 176 onto. i do not wish to shoot any narrative based work in 16:9 again. I feel compelled to shoot cinemascope, My last short film was shot on a PD150 with cinemascope 2:35:1, [url=http://vimeo.com/26241712]223[/url] I know that sounds crazy but it sort of worked. i measured out the cinemascope conversion and attached scotch tape to act as a grid. old school. do any of the available hacks allow for the screen to be marked out? or am i back to my calculator? also, at the moment i just have the kit lens, i cannot see me buying anamorphic lens' anytime soon, unless i can get them dirt cheap. so how will shooting on a standard lens like that effect the anamorphic look? thank you in advance for your replies Sam St. John Paragon Pictures [url=http://www.paragonpictures.co.uk]www.paragonpictures.co.uk[/url]