Will the Panasonic GH2 be Better for Filmmakers Than the GH1?
If you have a Panasonic GH1 manufactured prior to July 2010, you can hack the firmware and shoot at astoundingly high bitrates. However, anyone who has a GH1 manufactured more recently is stuck with...
View ArticleCanon 5D Mark II Challenged by Panasonic GH2 in Comparison Videos
A month ago I wondered if the Panasonic GH2 is the next great HDSLR (despite the fact that it’s not technically a DSLR, due to its lack of viewfinder). Now shooter Mike Kobal has posted a pair of...
View ArticleChoosing the Right Lenses for the Next Generation of Cameras (Panasonic GH2,...
The DSLR Cinematography Guide has several pages addressing lens use and choice. But the new cameras hitting the market — some with relatively new sensor sizes, like the Micro 4/3 Panasonic GH2 and...
View ArticleIs the $1,000 Panasonic GH2 a Better Camera Than the $5,000 Panasonic AF100?
You’d think if one of the largest electronics companies in the world was to release two cameras at the same time — one a pro video camera with a $5k price tag, and the other a consumer still/video...
View ArticleShootout: Canon T3i with CineStyle Picture Profile vs Panasonic GH2
First of all, Technicolor has released a new version (click on the “Registered User Download” tab) of its CineStyle LUT compatible with Red Giant’s LUT Buddy and Apple Color. Given CineStyle is proving...
View ArticleThe Panasonic GH2's Firmware Has Been Hacked; New Features on the Way
Programmer Vitaliy Kiselev recently got ahold of a leaked firmware update for the Panasonic GH2 and has now hacked it successfully. This could lead to new features, as we saw last time around with the...
View ArticlePanasonic GH2 Hacked Further, Now Records to Advanced 176Mbit Codec
The Panasonic GH2, arguably the most aliasing-free, highest-resolution hybrid camera out there (pictured here with the $500 ReWo GH2 cage), natively records to a 24Mbit Long GOP codec. “Long GOP” means...
View ArticleHack Improves Panasonic GH2's Night Vision, Raising ISO from 3,200 to 12,800
The Panasonic GH2 keeps getting better and better thanks to hacker Vitaliy Kiselev. Recently he enabled a extremely high bitrate, and now he’s bumped the ISO during video mode from 3,200 all the way up...
View ArticleNew Panasonic GH2 Patches and Film Modes from EOSHD
I don’t own or shoot on a Panasonic GH2, but whenever I cover its hacked firmware releases the installation instructions always sound a bit daunting. Now EOSHD has released new patches and “film modes”...
View ArticlePhilip Bloom's Camera Shootout Features the Latest Large Sensor DSLRs and...
I was waiting for part two to post this, so now that it’s live, here is Philip Bloom’s latest camera shootout pitting the Canon C300, Sony NEX5N, Panasonic AF100, Panasonic GH2, Canon 5D Mark II, Canon...
View ArticleWhich Camera Won the Zacuto Camera Shootout? The (Anonymous) Winners and Losers
A couple weeks ago Zacuto released their Revenge of The Great Camera Shootout, which pitted the Apple iPhone 4S, Panasonic GH2 (Hacked), Canon 7D, Canon C300, Sony FS100, Sony F3, Sony F65, RED Epic,...
View ArticleThe Sony NEX-5 Mirrorless Has Been Hacked with Higher Bitrates, is the FS100...
While the hacking of a camera that can’t shoot 24p wouldn’t normally be cause for excitement, in this case it may actually mean quite a bit. Sony has traditionally kept bitrates low on their lower-end...
View ArticleWant Film-Like GH2 Footage? FilmConvert Now Supports GH2, More Canon...
Not too long ago we told you about a color corrector plugin/standalone software solution from Rubber Monkey that not only tries to mimic the looks of many film stocks, but does it in a way that is...
View ArticlePanasonic GH2 at Sundance and Slamdance: Carruth's 'Upstream Color' and...
The Panasonic GH2 is something of an anomaly in the camera world. Out of the box it looked good enough, but it wasn’t until the hackers got to it that things really got interesting — which was a very...
View ArticleHacked Shootout: Panasonic GH2 vs. 5D Mark III RAW & Magic Lantern Gets...
I don’t recall in recent memory any sort of software with this many updates in such a short period of time, but the folks over at Magic Lantern have been working around the clock, and we’re getting...
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