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So, as some of you may know, I've been "experimenting" with having little chats with different Panasonic cameras over WiFi and after whispering in the GX80s ear last night, I may have come up with something quite interesting.
The first image is a grab from a GX80 using its Standard profile.
The second image is a grab from a GX80 that is definitely not using the Standard profile.......

So, as some of you may know, I've been "experimenting" with having little chats with different Panasonic cameras over WiFi and after whispering in the GX80s ear last night, I may have come up with something quite interesting.
The first image is a grab from a GX80 using its Standard profile.
The second image is a grab from a GX80 that is definitely not using the Standard profile.......

OK
So for anyone wanting to try this, I have made a really simple method to do it.
I have tested this numerous times on my GX80 and it has lived to tell the tale but obviously do this at your own risk.
All that this process does is fool the camera into thinking its talking to the smartphone app and then the commands it sends are exactly what the smartphone app sends. Or would do if the smartphone app thought it was talking to a camera equipped with Cinelike D !
So as such it is only getting sent what the Panasonic app would be sending to it so there are no hacky or sneaky debug things getting sent to it. 
Again, though, proceed at your own risk.
Although I would say, if you’ve tried that region switching hack on YouTube with the 10 million key press combos during power up then you’re already brave enough to try this!
Bear in mind that my unit is a GX80 and the firmware is version 1.0
If you have a GX85 or have got a different firmware then I just don’t know because obviously I haven’t got any other devices to test it on.
 
Here we go then….
Follow these instructions exactly and you should have Cinelike D on your GX80/85
You will need a laptop or a phone with a browser, the camera and to download the simple html file attached.
 
1) Switch on camera and turn on wifi as though you were connecting the app and you should see the waiting screen on the camera
2) Load the Deploy Cinelike D.html file into your browser
3) Select ‘Handshake’ 
4) You should see the browser page change and it confirm that its connected to a GX80
5) Hit the back key on the browser
6) Select ‘Connect’
7) You should see the browser page change to say ‘ok’ and the camera give you an ‘Under Remote Control’ message
8) Wait until the camera screen shows you a live view
9) Hit the back key on the browser
10) Select ‘Deploy’
11) You should see the browser page change to say ‘ok’ and the camera should NOT now be displaying the Photo Style you had selected (i.e. Standard, Vivid etc) 
12) Cinelike D is now active on the camera
13) If you go into the menu on the camera and select Photo Style you will see that it is blank and you can’t navigate to other Photo Styles such as Standard etc. 
14) To restore the Photo Styles hit the back button on the browser and select ‘Restore’ and the camera will display the Standard photo style and you should then be able to go into Photo Styles and change them.
15) Repeat 9-14 to switch between them to your hearts content!
 
So, like other settings, the Cinelike D profile will persist when you switch the camera off so if you want to use the other Photo Styles again then you MUST go this process again to re-enable them.
However, if you would like to switch between them without using this method again (and who wouldn’t) here is a neat way round it.
When you’ve done Step 12 and got Cinelike D on, set all your other parameters (4K24p etc) as you’d like them and save these into C1 of the custom settings.
Then go to Step 14 and use the ‘Restore’ to get your standard Photo Styles back, set all your other parameters (4K24p etc) as you’d like them and then save these into C2 of the custom settings.
Now when you switch the camera on, you simply choose C1 to have Cinelike D or C2 for the standard Photo Styles and forget about using any nonsense about using browsers and wifi connections!
 
In couple of weeks I’m hoping to show you how you can do stuff like this and some other useful bits and pieces from a little hardware gadget that will work on the Panasonic cameras but have fun with this in the meantime.
DEPLOY CINELIKE D.html

Kind of but its actually a lot more basic than that to be honest mate and doesn't require any modification of the app.
I've got a really simple way of testing it if anyone wants to have a go themselves?

Well it was never going to be a low light monster but I can let you have ISO50000 now if you want it as well
Top ISO6400 (max for video)
Middle ISO25600 (standard max for stills)
Bottom ISO50000 (modified max for stills)
It still reports it as 25600 in the exif funnily enough. And it doesn't display it onscreen either, just like it doesn't with the Cinelike D
So there seems to be a mismatch between the values it writes in the metadata and displays on screen with what it can actually be made to do. This is very potentially very interesting regarding a bitrate I thought I'd persuaded it to do earlier......

I'm exploring some permanence using the custom C options to give you a switchable configuration.
By 'exploring' I mean double checking as I already have it working.
I'm just working on this prototype version of making a mic input appear via wifi
 

All very interesting. Keep up the good work!

So, as some of you may know, I've been "experimenting" with having little chats with different Panasonic cameras over WiFi and after whispering in the GX80s ear last night, I may have come up with something quite interesting.
The first image is a grab from a GX80 using its Standard profile.
The second image is a grab from a GX80 that is definitely not using the Standard profile.......

No, its easy and it does persist on switch off.
But that can be an issue as once you've enabled it you then needed to then use the wifi to go back to the other profiles.
And when I say 'you then needed to' I mean in the past tense as I've worked out a way to make it permanently switchable in camera using the C functions so you dedicate one of them to being Cinelike D and you must have one of the others set to Standard or another one of the profiles so you can switch back to them otherwise you'd have to use the wifi.
I'm working on something that will be quite the useful little standalone gadget for these Panasonic cameras but for now it can be done using a laptop or phone.
I do have an LX100.
It currently does 'something' and I just need to work out why that 'something' isn't currently the 'something' we want it to do.

As per the image above, it is very close to Cinelike D.
By which I mean, it actually is Cinelike D

So, as some of you may know, I've been "experimenting" with having little chats with different Panasonic cameras over WiFi and after whispering in the GX80s ear last night, I may have come up with something quite interesting.
The first image is a grab from a GX80 using its Standard profile.
The second image is a grab from a GX80 that is definitely not using the Standard profile.......

Do you have an LX100? I wonder if it's possible to get CineLikeD on that one. Also, I believe it shared a sensor with the GH4, so maybe the high bitrate, all-i 1080 is switchable via wi-fi as well. Now that would be cool. 

As per the image above, it is very close to Cinelike D.
By which I mean, it actually is Cinelike D

Just to illustrate this, erm, 'non standard' profile for the GX80/85 here is a comparison collage.
The top picture is a G7 using Cinelike D and the bottom one is a GX80 using this non standard profile.
Strange eh?
 

So, as some of you may know, I've been "experimenting" with having little chats with different Panasonic cameras over WiFi and after whispering in the GX80s ear last night, I may have come up with something quite interesting.
The first image is a grab from a GX80 using its Standard profile.
The second image is a grab from a GX80 that is definitely not using the Standard profile.......

As mentioned in the other thread for @jonpais and @mercer here are some grabs from a G7 to compare a Contax Zeiss 50mm f1.7 with a modern Nikon 50mm AFS f1.8G.
Not the most thrilling of shots but set up to compare colour, sharpness and DOF on a typical MFT camera.
Profile on the G7 was set to Cinelike D
Lenses were both mounted on inexpensive basic C/Y and Nikon G to MFT adapters. 
I'd originally planned to use speedboosters but as per the other thread last week the C/Y to MFT adapter I've got is more or less a very expensive soft focus filter.
The guitar was 1.8metres from the camera and the focus and colour charts an additional 60cm behind it and then obviously a distant background.
Shots were at f1.7 (Nikon had to be exposure matched as its max aperture is f1.8) and f5.6.
The four compilations here show focus on guitar and then charts at both apertures.
In each one, the Contax Zeiss is the image on the top and the Nikon on the bottom.
All compilations are from JPEG frame exports of uncorrected clips from a 4K FCPX timeline.
Draw your own conclusions obviously but any marked difference is not leaping off the screen really.
Cost wise, there isn't a lot in it either with a used Contax Zeiss being around £150 on eBay and more or less the same for a used Nikon as tested here.
Plus point for the Nikon is obviously if you have a Nikon camera to put it on then you also get AF.
Plus points for the Contax Zeiss are very slightly wider aperture, manual aperture ring, a bit more of a forgiving focus ring IMO and a more compact form factor.
 

Now then........
I doubt I've got the wherewithal to get your 100mbit HD going but I might have just got something reasonably interesting working on the GX80.
I need to do a proper controlled test against a G7 in the morning to confirm it but I'm cautiously optimistic.
Stay tuned

So, this is really cool. When you turn it on, does it stay on, or do you have to "flip the switch" every time you turn the camera on?
Also can you try, over wi-fi, for a mic input to appear...

So, as some of you may know, I've been "experimenting" with having little chats with different Panasonic cameras over WiFi and after whispering in the GX80s ear last night, I may have come up with something quite interesting.
The first image is a grab from a GX80 using its Standard profile.
The second image is a grab from a GX80 that is definitely not using the Standard profile.......

As per the image above, it is very close to Cinelike D.
By which I mean, it actually is Cinelike D

Cine D for GX85? How did you do it? Out of likes for today.
Maybe you should give it another thread title...AWESOME: CINE D HACK for GX85! Finally Cine D for your GX85
 
 

Interesting... I can see a big difference particularly in the red and orange areas, which is the GX80's weakpoint. More latitude in the highlights as well. What have you done? This is potentially huge for me. 

Cine D then? Common that would be a Grand Hit! Maybe that exploit could be used for other hacks such as high big rate in HD!
Out of likes for today unfortunately! How did you do it? @mercer, is gonna have to buy two GX85 cameras now!!!
 

Well, thats very interesting!
I suspected there would be some sort of engineering/debug mode it could be put into and what they're showing in those videos is such a specific set of button press combinations that no way has someone just stumbled on it!
The really, curious thing is from this particular video.
And more to the point, why no one has picked up the VERY interesting entry in the Setup screen when he's scrolling through it.
He does it quickly so I've attached a screenshot of it here......ROM BACKUP??????
 

Now then........
I doubt I've got the wherewithal to get your 100mbit HD going but I might have just got something reasonably interesting working on the GX80.
I need to do a proper controlled test against a G7 in the morning to confirm it but I'm cautiously optimistic.
Stay tuned