Does the Speedbooster feature activate on the GH2 only with a external third-party 5 Volt MicroUSB power supply?

If yes, could anyone who has experience in it share a tried and tested third party 5 volt MicroUSB brand i would need to buy for the same?

Please feel free to share any other views on MB SB+ GH2 setup.

A study of more than 200,000 galaxies, encompassing wavelengths of light from the far ultraviolet to infrared, shows that the universe is producing half as >much energy as it did 2 billion years ago and continues to fade. “Newer galaxies are simply putting out less energy than galaxies did in the past,” >astronomer Mehmet Alpaslan, with NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., told Discovery News. SNIP

http://news.discovery.com/space/galaxies/universe-is-dying-galactic-survey-shows-150810.htm

HUAWEI Mate, phone with 6.1" screen :-) Samsung also have similar things.

May be next year trend will be promoting 7" tablets as smartphones? What do you think?

So, let's put aside the most common theoretical arguments about that GH2 is not a full frame, not a RAW video camera, about the codec, etc. Ok, the video quality of GH2 after the most of the hacks gets increased - little less noise, higher image details and everything else described for every single patch.

BUT!!! THE BIG "BUT":

Just take a look at the examples "Before" and "After" below and see the difference. At first sight nothing surprising - the "After" frame (with GH2 Intra Patch) looks higher detailed at all, no doubts! Let's save all that can't be said about that more.

Let's see the "Before" frame now - ok, less detailed, loss in the shadows, little burnt highlights, etc.

But what are my own impressions and conclusions - the "After" frame has all the characteristics of a digital video, lacked of dense and getting flat. No, I don't mean the "flat image style"!!! I mean that the hacked picture simply lost its material depth!

While the "Before" frame produces much more characteristics of a movie look, looks much more cinematic closer to the Hollywood motion pictures.

And before some of you are ready to post reply, now it's time to pay attention to the 3rd attached frame, which is from "Tokarev" 2014 (with Nicolas Cage). So: simply compare this frame to any of the "Before" and "After" frames. WELL, WHICH GH2 FRAME IS DEFINITELY CLOSER TO THE 3RD MOVIE FRAME IN EVERY ASPECT??? Of course, I've found hundreds of movies with EXACTLY the same characteristics, and NO ONE with hacked GH2 image characteristics! Just don't let me to upload with hours :)

Like it or not, that's the general reason why every hacked GH2 video, raw or graded, looks always far from what everyone calls "filmlook". Yes, I've seen only few with clear detailed and nice look, but compared with ANY movie production frame, the resemblance is saying at least minimal. Since the GH1 era I posted some ideas about where the hack work should be turned to, but the history of this forum can show you the reactions.

Anyway, it would never happen, but at least I wrote it.

Urban water use in California dropped by 27% in June, according to figures released Thursday by the State Water Resources Control Board

http://ktla.com/2015/07/30/california-water-usage-drops-27-in-june-exceeding-25-mandate/

I was approached by Panasonic several months ago to speak at the Canadian G7 release in Toronto on my experience with Panasonic cameras and my move to 4K video.

Since that time, more opportunities have come to light and I couldn't be more excited to share this with everyone!

Panasonic Canada has created a new website called http://www.lumixstories.ca which highlights several videographers and photographers and I was lucky enough to be featured on the site for my work with the gh1 through gh4. Have a look through the site and check out some of my work as well as some of the other talented shooters!

On top of that, I will be in Halifax, Nova Scotia this long weekend to do an in-store hands-on test day at Henry's with the G7 and new GX8 as well as teaching a 1 hour workshop on my 4K video workflow in Adobe Premiere!

If anyone is from the east coast of Canada and is interested in participating in the workshop, or would like to show me around the beautiful city of Halifax, please message me on here! The link to the workshop is here:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1608468506085767/

There is a lot more in the works and I can't wait to share it with everyone!

Researchers have worked out how to make matter from pure light and are drawing up plans to demonstrate the feat within the next 12 months.

"The theory underpinning the idea was first described 80 years ago by two physicists who later worked on the first atomic bomb. At the time they considered the conversion of light into matter impossible in a laboratory.

But in a report published on Sunday, physicists at Imperial College London claim to have cracked the problem using high-powered lasers and other equipment now available to scientists.

"We have shown in principle how you can make matter from light," said Steven Rose at Imperial. "If you do this experiment, you will be taking light and turning it into matter."

The scientists are not on the verge of a machine that can create everyday objects from a sudden blast of laser energy. The kind of matter they aim to make comes in the form of subatomic particles invisible to the naked eye.

The original idea was written down by two US physicists, Gregory Breit and John Wheeler, in 1934. They worked out that – very rarely – two particles of light, or photons, could combine to produce an electron and its antimatter equivalent, a positron. Electrons are particles of matter that form the outer shells of atoms in the everyday objects around us.

But Breit and Wheeler had no expectations that their theory would be proved any time soon. In their study, the physicists noted that the process was so rare and hard to produce that it would be "hopeless to try to observe the pair formation in laboratory experiments".

Oliver Pike, the lead researcher on the study, said the process was one of the most elegant demonstrations of Einstein's famous relationship that shows matter and energy are interchangeable currencies. "The Breit-Wheeler process is the simplest way matter can be made from light and one of the purest >demonstrations of E=mc2," he said."

So next time a camera is sold crippled to whatever absurdely short maximum video recording period, manufacturers will probably need to use a different pretense for their market segmentation measures. I already hear them blather about "heat dissipation problems" and such...

http://www.cnet.com/news/why-4k-tvs-are-stupid/

These two articles also compare 4k with 1080p and 720p with closeup from screen images and interesting graphic tables for viewing distance/screen size:

http://www.rtings.com/tv/learn/what-is-the-resolution

http://www.rtings.com/tv/learn/4k-ultra-hd-uhd-vs-1080p-full-hd-tvs-and-upscaling-compared

in all these 3 articles the conclusion is: if you are 10 feet (around 3 meters) away from a 50 inch TV 720p is enough.

A good thing using 4k resolution is home theater projectors with high lumen output to allow large screen, but affordable 4k projectors are far away to be real.

We have what may be an extremely difficult problem with an unknown time to solve it, on which quite possibly the entire future of humanity depends. — Nick Bostrom

http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-1.html

http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-2.html

...makes skynet seem quaint !

Maybe this can be good for 4K hdr video in 3840 x 2160 pixels sensor, and much better for 1080p because in 3840 x 2160 pixels sensor each four pixels will be one pixel after downsize, so the debayer and interpolation will be very good. this design using 7680 x 4320 pixels will be amazing for 4k hdr, because each four pixels will be one pixel after downsize.

3840 x 2160 will be great for 1080p hdr (8.240.400 pixels, easy to do in M43)

7680 x 4320 will be great for 4k hdr (33.177.600 pixels, easy to do in sony full frame mirrorless)

If you look following the diagonal, you will perceive there are two pixels besides an empty pixel for red, green and blue, same diagonal direction for red and blue and other diagonal direction for green. this makes the interpolation more easy and better to do when comparing to the alternate line pairs design.

This web page shows all information: http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/News/Press/201208/12-107E/index.html

A modern, articulated, amazing rant about our current technocracy, coming from (but not exclusive to) web design. Everyone should read it, but I thought of Vitaliy when reading it.

I have seen and recommend. Some you can find on Youtube.

Stanley Kubrick: A life in pictures.

Room 237 (about people ideas and meanings of The Shining)

The Death of Superman Lives, What happened? (really fun due to Kevin Smith, about the aborted version of Superman directed by Tim Burton starting Nic Cage!)

Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy (really interesting...quite long)

Yet to of watched but plan to:

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (making of Apocalypse now)

Lost in La Mancha (Terry gilliam and an aborted movie of Don Quixote)

Jodorowsky's Dune (again an unmade movie version of Dune, looks very interesting)

Ok....something light ! And in response to V's "no ufo's here" , what'd ya'll think about these obviously cgi created internet mythmakers ? In my experience of distressing imagery, I find them pretty well made. If you want to google Ivan0135, there's alot of speculation...some good...some ridiculous.

Enjoy...unless the overlord zaps them with his magic wand !

Put the fucking guns down.

Photos here:

http://chroniquespalestine.blogspot.ch/

from the filmmaker Werner Herzog, a producer for both films. “He said, ‘Joshua, art doesn’t make a difference — long pause — until it does.’ ”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/16/movies/indonesians-who-helped-make-films-about-killings-face-safety-fears.html

http://getgems.org

Though they're on kikcstarter campaign, it's possibly a good investment ;-)

That chinese buttons' store is just crazy 8-)