Magic Lumix - Panasonic S9 and GX80 officially hacked

[Andrew - EOSHD]

With the help of our AI friends, the first Panasonic hack since the GH2 has arrived.

So far the S9 and GX80 have the hack.

It auto-executes code from the card at boot, enabling the same kind of range of mods Magic Lantern does but on Lumix cameras for the first time. It takes compiled C code binaries and Arm64 code.

The CPU is extremely powerful... 64bit vs the 32bit EOS R5.

More info soon.

GM5 and GX9 to follow

[mercer]

Are you just testing the ability to hack and moving on, or will you eventually add features like raw video, log profiles, etc... where possible?

[PannySVHS]

Holy crap, that's awesome. Thanks a lot, Andrew! @Andrew - EOSHD I love the raw files out of my GX85. S16 crop, downsampled HD or cine 2K, 10bit or 12bit 3:1 CDNG would be perfect. Battery life is so much better than on my bmpcc. EVF, nice ergonomy, solid layout, buttons and wheels are great to have. But you all already know that of course. 🙂

[kye]

Incredible stuff!

I spent a bit of time asking ChatGPT if the GX85 could be hacked and it said that there were serious limitations, but like all mid-capability intelligences, if it hasn't been done then they erroneously overstep and assume it can't be done.

Are / will these be shared somewhere?

[MrSMW]

9 hours ago, Andrew - EOSHD said:

So far the S9 and GX80 have the hack

S9 specifically, to what purpose?

Other than Flappy Birds, obvs, but what does it otherwise mean?

Serious Q!

[Andrew - EOSHD]

When you run code in RAM you can do pretty much anything like Magic Lantern or the Sigma Fp hacks, so raw video, open gate and V-LOG for the GX80 is definitely on the cards. The S9 has a 64bit CPU so plenty of power to play with there.

Got to explore the hardware now and build the first proper feature for it so keep an eye on the blog for further developments!

[eatstoomuchjam]

An S9 with raw?  Are you going to make me go spend a few bucks.

[MrSMW]

Internal raw on the S9 would be at least something I’d have a play with and I guess the S5ii would be as ‘easy’ to crack?

[Andrew - EOSHD]

Nothing about it was easy 🙂

I can assure you that much!!

[Andrew - EOSHD]

Skipped Doom on the S9... Went straight to Quake at 60fps.

It makes the EOS R5 look like a bit of a potato.

Blog post and YouTube video coming soon.

[MrSMW]

13 hours ago, Andrew - EOSHD said:

Nothing about it was easy 🙂

I can assure you that much!!

I don’t mean easy easy but if you managed the S9, the S5ii should be easy-er?

[Anaconda_]

Nice! It seems the GX80 is the perfect camera. After all these years, it's still being used to great effect and by the looks of things, it's only getting better. It really is a shame Panasonic didn't give it an audio input. I regretted selling mine within a week, my favourite photo I've ever taken was with it.

Will you release these hacks for free?