How do you select the 50/60p frame rates?

You can remove it from the card.

@longjohnsilver @lpowell @rambo I'm the guy whom Kevin Good(the shootout guy) borrowed the hacked gh2 from.

I have to agree the test was a bit flawed since the exposures were clearly different between the 4 cameras. This caused a bit of a bias against the gh2s low light performance.

In defense of the guy I'm a 100% sure he was not against the gh2 or the Sony. When he picked up the camera he immediately told me "I think we got our winner right here!". And I'm quite sure he was rooting for the nex or gh2 to come out on top since this was also according to him a test to see which camera he would buy to use on his aerial videos.

I think (and I'm guessing here) they shot these and did not realize they had that big difference in exposures until after shooting because he borrowed this from me late on Friday and by Monday he was contacting me to return it. Tuesday the video was up on YouTube. He had set a tight timetable to get this shootout done which is sometimes good and maybe this time it didn't workout as well.

I did message him and he said he was getting a lot of flak for the gh2 test and wanted to give the gh2 a fair shake. So hopefully he contacts me again and borrows my gh2 and does a shootout part 2.

As for the $10 for the hack not sure how nofilmschool got that. On Kevin Good's blog there is clearly no mention of $10. http://www.crisislab.com/index.php?section=1 Also mentioned in that blog post is a 14-42mm lens. So nofilmschool made a bad typo. Maybe they meant a donation on nofilmschool for the hack.

@ipcmlr

I think we have to separate the shootout guy from nofilmschool.

Clearly that guy doesn't know anything about comparing these camera. You can perform such test in a week end only if you are a pro and you know exactly what to do. Reading his replies it's clear to me that he knows pretty much nothing. On this blog post (http://news.doddleme.com/equipment/youtube-series-tests-best-cameras-under-1000) James DeRuvo was calling his shootout into question and he replied:

A lot of people have been saying that’s unfair and the hacked GH2 has so much recoverable-detail in those deep shadows that the dynamic range is actually there. I’ll have to look into that a bit more.

NoFilmSchool position is another story. I was subcribed to their newsletter until few weeks ago and I quit because they continuously hammer in Canon products (as most of website out there). Their website is crammed with ads and their newsletter tracks your choices... Once they realize that a lot of people were bringing into question that test, they replied that they naively quoted the shootout asking their readers "What do you guys think of the test?". A serious magazine doesn't publish work form other people quoting their results without implicitly endorse them. They even linked that post on their newsletter. Finally they suggested that FM or other settings costs 10$. They even did not care to rephrase that.

I still remember they wrote several articles trying to reject Zacuto shootout results, so nothing new under the sun. I think that article is the final evidence that "The emperor has no clothes!".

PS Someone rightly noted that they "forgot" to mention Upstream Color by Shane Carruth shot on a hacked GH2 showing at Sundance. Just imagine if that film was shoot on a Canon. We would have 6x3 meters billboards across the country!

Bye

Another gig completed with the awesome LPowell settings and VK hack.

In my humble opinion, "End of the Line" was well lit, shot, conceived and the acting was pretty damn good. FM did a great job in both highlights and shadows, too. Very nice all the way around. I'm guessing by the shape of the bokeh that you used Nokton lenses?

1080p 24P H and HBR 30p Flowmotion absolutly stunning THX Lee

Don't know if you've seen this already, but this seems like a nice job with Flow Motion and Zeiss glass. http://www.noamkroll.com/splitting-bethany-feature-film-shot-on-gh2/

@Zaven13 I'm currently investigating the cause of the elusive diagonal flickers that are sometimes seen in Adobe CS6. I have a sample video that produces flickers in After Effects CS6, but shows no flickering in After Effects CS5.5. If the flicker is exacerbated by certain patch settings, I may be able to find a way to suppress it. If so, I'll release an updated version of Flow Motion v2.

It's not like Adobe needs even more encouragement to be lazy bastards.

@BurnetRhoades I've seen other cases where a commercial decoder was unable to correctly render the contents of a perfectly valid H.264 file. Unfortunately, the H.264 specification encompasses such a wide range of encoding techniques that it's a real challenge for a manufacturer to test and verify that their decoder correctly handles all possible permutations of H.264 encoding syntax. PTool gives us the ability to dramatically alter the behavior of the GH2's encoder, and it's quite possible that our hacked MTS files could expose latent decoder flaws that testing with ordinary H.264 files has failed to reveal. In that case, it may be more prudent to tone down problematic patches in order to stay within the safe region of the decoder's functionality.