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Dialogue in Panasonic headquarters meeting:
(Manager) Well, Cinelike-D and Cinelike-V should stay available only for our bigger body cameras...
(Engineer) Ahn...there is a problem...
(Manager) What?
(Engineer) A guy in a site was messing with our wifi transmission protocol and discovered a way to enable it in our smaller cameras.
(Manager) Oh, fuck. Where?
(Engineer) Looks like a Canon site by their name, EOSHD. @BTM_Pix is the handle of the guy.
(Manager) Can't we disable it with a firmware update?
(Engineer) We can...but since we usually only release updates to fix errors in our smaller cameras, and not to improve them like that Fujifilm assholes, probably will not be a good idea.
(Manager) How did that happened?
(Engineer) An internship guy was assigned to handle the wifi protocols and...
(Manager) Amazing job, geniuses. Now we have to enable it to not look selfish...

The engineer was moved to Panasonic's washer division.

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New firmware v1.1
[Cinelike D] and [Cinelike V] have been added to [Photo Style].
[Flash Mode] can now be set to [Forced Flash Off] for the built-in flash.


http://av.jpn.support.panasonic.com/support/global/cs/dsc/download/fts/dl/gx9.html

https://jimchungblog.wordpress.com/2017/12/15/viltrox-ef-m2-adaptor-tested/
 
 
 
 
 
 

So as I've hinted more than a few times in the other thread, the discovery of the Cinelike D and other bits and pieces for the GX80 etc was actually a bit of a happy accident while I was trying to do understand the Panasonic wifi stuff for something else.
And here is that something else.
Well at least a prototype of it but it is fully functioning and will just be finessed a bit more.
Basically, its a wireless hardware remote for the G series cameras that operates over wifi and can currently control record start/stop, shutter speed as well as aperture and focus if you're using a native lens, including a single shot AF switch.
For the non-Cinelike D cameras that can now be hacked to have Cinelike D there is also a dedicated button to toggle it on and off so you don't need to mess about with browsers and computers or smartphones anymore.
Focus and aperture control are done on a joystick and everything else is switches.
I'll be putting a layer switch on so that it can be toggled back and forth to a different control mode for ISO, WB and other stuff.
As this is the prototype it is nowhere near the finished piece and it will be reduced in form factor to just be about the size of the control board. Power is by any USB source so there are billions of options.
There is a lot more finessing and feature enhancement to go on with regard to the focus control (and yes, I know exactly what you'll all want it to do !) but the hard part is done now.
It does support the display of the values on a screen and I'll be sorting some options out for that.
The purpose of this gadget is primarily for use with a gimbal but it can also be really useful on a tripod bar for anyone shooting live event stuff. For cameras with inbuilt lenses I'm going to add a zoom mode on the joystick.
A very quick very rough demo so you can see it in action.
Any lag you might see between me operating the controller and the camera video is just a sync issue between me throwing the two recordings on very quickly  
 
 

I've had a bit more of a dig about this because I was pretty sure that I remembered that the viewfinder app was upscaling to fill the phone screen. 
I had remembered correctly as it turns out the live stream resolution is only 640 x 480 so that would immediately rule it out.

"It poses more questions than it answers" -- That's a great way to put it. Overall I agree. On the hardware side of things, though, I think the investments would be minimal. All modern laptops bring fast WiFi, extremely fast processing, and fast storage. It then comes down to software to solve the problem. I think a proof-of-concept could be done in python in a matter of days or weeks. What remains unclear to me is whether or not the resulting stream is of good enough quality (fps and "bitrate") to be worthy of recording at all. A dedicated piece of hardware is far more elegant, of course, but also pricier. And I think one purpose of these hacks is always to save money by putting in slightly more effort on the user's side.

The ISO trick works in video mode as well so you can have up to 50000 if you fancy it.
Higher shutter speeds than 4000 can be formed and sent to it and it will respond correctly to them if its in electronic mode but it won't go beyond 16000.
The flash sync speed is not something I've looked at. Is it an explicitly set value in any Lumix camera ?
Tele mode is something I've looked at brielfy but it didn't work as I expected it might but don't rule it out as I need it for my gadget so I'll be looking at it again.
Battery saving mode isnt something I've looked at as I don't think it's changeable from the app and is a camera only selection?
 
 
 
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For those wanting extended ISO
New updated HTML file with Cineline D, V, Hue controls and switchable extended ISOs of 6400/12800/25600/50000
 
DEPLOY CINELIKE D V HUE EXTENDED ISO.html

Which reminds me....
Updated html attached that will now let you have ISO100 in video mode.
Unfortunately, this setting does not persist on power cycle and can't be saved in the C settings so if you need it then you will have to deploy it through a browser each time.
For now at least....
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The GX80 accepts but does not action these extended ISO modes in video so it is ISO200 to ISO6400 only for that. 
Thanks to @Rizky Ramadhan for the update
ISO50000 works for stills on GX80
The extended ISOs are working for me on a G7 so please feel free to chime in with results from other models
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DEPLOY CINELIKE D V HUE EXTENDED ISO V2.html

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.......

Great effort.
The ed ones are for cameras such as the FZ2000 that can have the high bit rate.
These are what Panasonic refer to as editing type of formats and switch those cameras into MP4(LPCM) mode that the other cameras don't have.
From this systematic testing I think we can probably now put it to bed at least with the G7 regarding activating these different formats.
Unless there is some interaction when switching from a 'semi legal' format (the ones that say OK but dont go to the 4K24p setting) to a different 'semi legal' format but the number of permutations to test then becomes like adding another rotor wheel on the Enigma machine.
My view is that it confirms that it gets itself very confused by those MP4(LPCM) based formats and doesn't know what to do. This is supported by the G7 being unable to play a legitimate recording from one of these modes from an FZ2000.