LippyLee

I've spent a day converting the existing GX80 Cinelike-D hack html file into an Android APK. There's an added color temperature function.
This app should yield some usability advantages as it allows on the fly changes to the various picture profile settings and contains all settings on a single page. It also saves your last selected settings.
 
Notes on installation:
-Allow installation of apps from unknown sources
 
Instructions for use:
1. Connect to your camera's wifi network
2. Start the app
3. Click handshake (ignore any update warnings)
4. Click recmode
5. Change settings before or while filming
 
Other notes:
1. The app may erase existing settings saved in your various picture profiles
2. Camera IP selection is not yet implemented, apologies to those who do not connect to their cameras directly
3. Tested on a G7
 
Download link: https://github.com/lippyt/lumixlib/raw/master/lumix.apk

How about the RX100 M1 or the G7X M1?
Either can be gotten below $200 used. Both have usable autofocus and usable 30/60fps 1080p
The G7X has a 3 stop ND filter and a touchscreen and it will achieve the same level of background blurriness as an APS-C kit lens while having 100mm FF equivalent focal length.
They are both pocketable and cheap enough to not worry about losing them/theft
Both don't have mic ports though

Mmmkai. '10-bit HDR Image Sensor'.
~ http://www.lg.com/us/mobile-phones/v30
Though, that doesn't necessarily mean video is being recorded in 10-bit of course. But they do put a lot of focus on 'Cine' 'movie-quality' 'pro' 'Log'... but then again, that reminds me of the E-M5 Mark II press release that didn't even mention the word 'video', only terms like 'professional' 'cinema' 'film'... and who's been picking that one up over an Panasonic, Sony, etc?
At any rate... it's a smartphone, it's cool if it's actually any good, but you'd probably still pick the right tool for the right job and more than likely, that's not a smartphone.

None taken
If any brave soul would like to try it, it's definitely no snow cone:
 

I've spent a day converting the existing GX80 Cinelike-D hack html file into an Android APK. There's an added color temperature function.
This app should yield some usability advantages as it allows on the fly changes to the various picture profile settings and contains all settings on a single page. It also saves your last selected settings.
 
Notes on installation:
-Allow installation of apps from unknown sources
 
Instructions for use:
1. Connect to your camera's wifi network
2. Start the app
3. Click handshake (ignore any update warnings)
4. Click recmode
5. Change settings before or while filming
 
Other notes:
1. The app may erase existing settings saved in your various picture profiles
2. Camera IP selection is not yet implemented, apologies to those who do not connect to their cameras directly
3. Tested on a G7
 
Download link: https://github.com/lippyt/lumixlib/raw/master/lumix.apk

Hi to All,
I wrote a script to fast enable/disable Cinelike for gx80-85 in IOS (iphone or Ipad)
Link for script https://workflow.is/workflows/ee3e045edbea4a79bec648e31e7d2a07 (Download Workflow App before)
Video Tutorial to use it https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6F1iXrslVvhQnpkengwV2VPVVU 
I hope can be useful

What, nobody expressing their exitement verbally? Anbody tried this yet without getting their phones burned? Sorry, LippyLee, no offense meant.
Sorry, guys, for not testin it myself with a friend´s phone, but waiting for your braveness:)
 
@BTM_Pix, you should set up a donation box for your efforts and achievement. And so should LippyLee.

My reward is in helping people and seeing what they're doing using it.
Nah, only kidding.
Send cash.
Shitloads of cash.

I've spent a day converting the existing GX80 Cinelike-D hack html file into an Android APK. There's an added color temperature function.
This app should yield some usability advantages as it allows on the fly changes to the various picture profile settings and contains all settings on a single page. It also saves your last selected settings.
 
Notes on installation:
-Allow installation of apps from unknown sources
 
Instructions for use:
1. Connect to your camera's wifi network
2. Start the app
3. Click handshake (ignore any update warnings)
4. Click recmode
5. Change settings before or while filming
 
Other notes:
1. The app may erase existing settings saved in your various picture profiles
2. Camera IP selection is not yet implemented, apologies to those who do not connect to their cameras directly
3. Tested on a G7
 
Download link: https://github.com/lippyt/lumixlib/raw/master/lumix.apk

I've spent a day converting the existing GX80 Cinelike-D hack html file into an Android APK. There's an added color temperature function.
This app should yield some usability advantages as it allows on the fly changes to the various picture profile settings and contains all settings on a single page. It also saves your last selected settings.
 
Notes on installation:
-Allow installation of apps from unknown sources
 
Instructions for use:
1. Connect to your camera's wifi network
2. Start the app
3. Click handshake (ignore any update warnings)
4. Click recmode
5. Change settings before or while filming
 
Other notes:
1. The app may erase existing settings saved in your various picture profiles
2. Camera IP selection is not yet implemented, apologies to those who do not connect to their cameras directly
3. Tested on a G7
 
Download link: https://github.com/lippyt/lumixlib/raw/master/lumix.apk

I've spent a day converting the existing GX80 Cinelike-D hack html file into an Android APK. There's an added color temperature function.
This app should yield some usability advantages as it allows on the fly changes to the various picture profile settings and contains all settings on a single page. It also saves your last selected settings.
 
Notes on installation:
-Allow installation of apps from unknown sources
 
Instructions for use:
1. Connect to your camera's wifi network
2. Start the app
3. Click handshake (ignore any update warnings)
4. Click recmode
5. Change settings before or while filming
 
Other notes:
1. The app may erase existing settings saved in your various picture profiles
2. Camera IP selection is not yet implemented, apologies to those who do not connect to their cameras directly
3. Tested on a G7
 
Download link: https://github.com/lippyt/lumixlib/raw/master/lumix.apk

I've spent a day converting the existing GX80 Cinelike-D hack html file into an Android APK. There's an added color temperature function.
This app should yield some usability advantages as it allows on the fly changes to the various picture profile settings and contains all settings on a single page. It also saves your last selected settings.
 
Notes on installation:
-Allow installation of apps from unknown sources
 
Instructions for use:
1. Connect to your camera's wifi network
2. Start the app
3. Click handshake (ignore any update warnings)
4. Click recmode
5. Change settings before or while filming
 
Other notes:
1. The app may erase existing settings saved in your various picture profiles
2. Camera IP selection is not yet implemented, apologies to those who do not connect to their cameras directly
3. Tested on a G7
 
Download link: https://github.com/lippyt/lumixlib/raw/master/lumix.apk

I've spent a day converting the existing GX80 Cinelike-D hack html file into an Android APK. There's an added color temperature function.
This app should yield some usability advantages as it allows on the fly changes to the various picture profile settings and contains all settings on a single page. It also saves your last selected settings.
 
Notes on installation:
-Allow installation of apps from unknown sources
 
Instructions for use:
1. Connect to your camera's wifi network
2. Start the app
3. Click handshake (ignore any update warnings)
4. Click recmode
5. Change settings before or while filming
 
Other notes:
1. The app may erase existing settings saved in your various picture profiles
2. Camera IP selection is not yet implemented, apologies to those who do not connect to their cameras directly
3. Tested on a G7
 
Download link: https://github.com/lippyt/lumixlib/raw/master/lumix.apk

I've spent a day converting the existing GX80 Cinelike-D hack html file into an Android APK. There's an added color temperature function.
This app should yield some usability advantages as it allows on the fly changes to the various picture profile settings and contains all settings on a single page. It also saves your last selected settings.
 
Notes on installation:
-Allow installation of apps from unknown sources
 
Instructions for use:
1. Connect to your camera's wifi network
2. Start the app
3. Click handshake (ignore any update warnings)
4. Click recmode
5. Change settings before or while filming
 
Other notes:
1. The app may erase existing settings saved in your various picture profiles
2. Camera IP selection is not yet implemented, apologies to those who do not connect to their cameras directly
3. Tested on a G7
 
Download link: https://github.com/lippyt/lumixlib/raw/master/lumix.apk

I've spent a day converting the existing GX80 Cinelike-D hack html file into an Android APK. There's an added color temperature function.
This app should yield some usability advantages as it allows on the fly changes to the various picture profile settings and contains all settings on a single page. It also saves your last selected settings.
 
Notes on installation:
-Allow installation of apps from unknown sources
 
Instructions for use:
1. Connect to your camera's wifi network
2. Start the app
3. Click handshake (ignore any update warnings)
4. Click recmode
5. Change settings before or while filming
 
Other notes:
1. The app may erase existing settings saved in your various picture profiles
2. Camera IP selection is not yet implemented, apologies to those who do not connect to their cameras directly
3. Tested on a G7
 
Download link: https://github.com/lippyt/lumixlib/raw/master/lumix.apk

I want to share a short script I wrote in python that does focus ramping time lapses for Panasonic cameras. I believe this is doable in magic lantern for Canon users but I've yet to see an implementation for Panasonic. Here is a short technical preview:
Here is the python script I used to make this focus rack timelapse:
https://github.com/lippyt/lumixlib/blob/master/focuslapse.py
I'm sure that there are much more creative uses especially for shots with the majority of objects in the near-medium range.
 

I want to share a short script I wrote in python that does focus ramping time lapses for Panasonic cameras. I believe this is doable in magic lantern for Canon users but I've yet to see an implementation for Panasonic. Here is a short technical preview:
Here is the python script I used to make this focus rack timelapse:
https://github.com/lippyt/lumixlib/blob/master/focuslapse.py
I'm sure that there are much more creative uses especially for shots with the majority of objects in the near-medium range.
 

I want to share a short script I wrote in python that does focus ramping time lapses for Panasonic cameras. I believe this is doable in magic lantern for Canon users but I've yet to see an implementation for Panasonic. Here is a short technical preview:
Here is the python script I used to make this focus rack timelapse:
https://github.com/lippyt/lumixlib/blob/master/focuslapse.py
I'm sure that there are much more creative uses especially for shots with the majority of objects in the near-medium range.
 

I actually use the property of equality between tele-normal and wide-normal to determine the current focusing distance. I have not tried to deliberately switch between normal and fast modes, though I believe that their focus steps do not share a common denominator so we can definitely get between the cracks that way. Another way is for a user to turn the focusing ring so this generates a non squared-off value, for example he could reach 101,102,103....119,120 depending on luck. Requesting a tele or wide normal after that point will mean that all focus steps will not be similar to their squared-off values.
Certainly, I guess that panasonic gave lesser focus steps at the wide end because its much easier to focus/ the DOF would more than cover up for it. And even the coarse steps in some lenses would be more than sufficient for the focus pulling portion of your camera controller.
As for focus breathing on lenses, the 25mm panasonic lens has a ridiculous 20% scale from near to infinity (non scientific test, a guesstimation when playing with premiere footage).
 

It tells the app from the camera which menus to offer to the user. By mimicking the camera side to the app, it might be possible to persuade it to show them but it would only allow the same commands that have been sent directly from the browser to be sent by the app so the end result will be the same if the camera doesn't fancy it. And it would be a lot of work to write something that mimicked the camera as the computer would have to act like a server amongst other things and because of the stay alive heartbeat between the app and the camera it would require effort that I fully expect would only prove what is already known. Which is that if the camera itself doesn't have the recipe or the ingredients to make a cheeseburger it will just not make a cheeseburger however nicely we ask.
Everyone is of course welcome to try that but I'm going to focus in another direction as I firmly believe that using this method will not bring additional formats and if it does then you are into another layer of additional work to create an app to massage the metadata and there will always be the limitation of no in camera playback.
The only nagging thing I have about it that might be worth trying is to set the region using the octopus boot up method to Japan. It is in no way guaranteed or expected but neither is it beyond the bounds of possibility that for its own domestic market, Panasonic may have additional functionality. 
 
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When the cameras return a rejected message rather than an err_parameter it is usually indicative of it not being open for any sort of burger business, cheese or otherwise.
There are usually two scenarios for this.
1) The ImageApp is also running.
2) The camera is in a menu.
And number 3 is likely to be the one that is being seen here which is that it is utterly confused about the burger that you've just asked it to make, has set the kitchen on fire and the order window has been automatically closed by the sprinkler system.
If it could, it would be displaying this image on its rear screen 
 

What I think might be interesting is if you deliberately drive it to the boundary of where there are cracks between the positions, so between 101 and 120 for example on the 14-42 there is a nice bit of space to work in.
If you drive it to 120 and then give it one more tele_slow command and see if it goes to 119 or does it go directly down to its next boundary point of 101.
Similarly if you drive it deliberately into the cracks with a tele_fast or tele_slow will it sit at that point or round itself up or down.
For stills I can see an issue with falling into the cracks depending on your interval but I think in terms of motion for a fader that a user wants to go from position A at the top of the throw to position B at the bottom under manual control then there might be more latitude to get away with it. 
I think that the lenses themselves optically might be a bigger hurdle to a really nice pull (especially with the breathing and the unknown sneaky correctional stuff that often foes on under the hood with these cameras) than the process.
Well, that'll be my excuse anyway

Anyone guess what might be going on here then?
 

Thanks
To be honest, the accuracy of the lens control and what you can do with it is always going to be varying degrees of fudge without the command to directly return it to one of the 0-1024 positions.
I presume by profiling for focus steps you're referring to how many actual focus positions there are hiding within the 0-1024 range?
With some of the lenses it feels like there are only about 6!
I don't have a big range of native MFT lenses (and all of them are the cheap ones!) but I was wondering if requesting a dump from them using http://192.168.54.1/cam.cgi?mode=getinfo&type=lens might offer up an automated answer to what you're after.
This is the output for what its worth
 
Olympus 45 1.8
ok,2304/256,434/256,3584/256,1195/256,0,off,45,45,on,128/1024,on
 
Panasonic 20 1.7
ok,2048/256,392/256,3584/256,1195/256,0,off,20,20,on,128/1024,on
 
Panasonic 12-32 3.5 5.6
12 
ok,2304/256,925/256,3584/256,1195/256,0,off,32,12,on,128/1024,on
18
ok,2304/256,1062/256,3584/256,1195/256,0,off,32,12,on,128/1024,on
32
ok,2304/256,1273/256,3584/256,1195/256,0,off,32,12,on,128/1024,on
 
Panasonic 14 2.5
ok,2304/256,677/256,3584/256,1195/256,0,off,14,14,on,128/1024,on
 
Panasonic 45-200 4.5 5.6
@45
ok,2304/256,1024/256,3584/256,1195/256,0,off,200,45,on,128/1024,on
@100
ok,2304/256,1138/256,3584/256,1195/256,0,off,200,45,on,128/1024,on
@200
ok,2304/256,1273/256,3584/256,1195/256,0,off,200,45,on,128/1024,on
I can make a guesstimate of what each of those parameters are (and you can see that the third one x/256 is current focal length as it varies within the zoom etc) and unfortunately the answer you're after isn't in there. 
Obviously, if you manually put the lens at infinity and try and nudge it one more place with http://192.168.54.1/cam.cgi?mode=camctrl&type=focus&value=tele-normal
It will return
ok,0,1024
So you know that its correctly hit 0 and similarly if you put it at minimum distance and tell it go one step wider it will return
ok,1024,1024
And that obviously doesn't change per lens so at least thats consistent!
In terms of creating something functional from what we have to play with, whilst it would be desirable to hit exact points, the four focus functions that we have at our disposal can be massaged into doing something useful using methods like your comparison routine to return to a specific point.
The key to making it a useful practical function though is being in control of the entire process.
If we are driving the focus ourselves using a stick or fader then we have constant feedback of which of the 0-1024 values it is currently at so this can make the profiling unnecessary as we always know this is a 'legal' value because the user has chosen it based on the image being in focus therefore it must be an actual focus point the lens is capable of. And if we now that then, of course, we should be able to make it return to it.
The transition between two such points is something that, again, if we are in charge of the whole process - i.e. the user has focused using our focus controller and will be doing a physical pull from A to B with our controller (particularly a fader with fixed end points) - then we can scale it to at least make it a consistent experience. By consistent I mean, the rate at which they move the fader from one end to the other is controlling the rate of transition irrespective of how many or few actual focus points the lens is capable of resolving. Don't get me wrong, it will always be a fudge of sorts but if we are up against the limitations of the lens in terms of how coarse the transition is then it would be like that anyway if they did it manually. 
The proof is in the testing I suppose to see how smooth or not it is with each lens (and I'm not ignoring some inherent glitchiness caused by the way we're communicating with the camera either) and then the challenge is to try and mitigate it and smooth it out with different scaling techniques.

I want to share a short script I wrote in python that does focus ramping time lapses for Panasonic cameras. I believe this is doable in magic lantern for Canon users but I've yet to see an implementation for Panasonic. Here is a short technical preview:
Here is the python script I used to make this focus rack timelapse:
https://github.com/lippyt/lumixlib/blob/master/focuslapse.py
I'm sure that there are much more creative uses especially for shots with the majority of objects in the near-medium range.
 

I want to share a short script I wrote in python that does focus ramping time lapses for Panasonic cameras. I believe this is doable in magic lantern for Canon users but I've yet to see an implementation for Panasonic. Here is a short technical preview:
Here is the python script I used to make this focus rack timelapse:
https://github.com/lippyt/lumixlib/blob/master/focuslapse.py
I'm sure that there are much more creative uses especially for shots with the majority of objects in the near-medium range.