My name is David and I've been following this forum for several months, but joined just a few days ago. I've worked in advertising for more than 20 years as a writer and creative director. While advertising is a great career, it doesn't always allow the creative freedom I want. Two years ago I got a GH2 and now I have a GH3 to work on short adventure and narrative films. I love the outdoors and I love putting stories on film. At the end of July I'll be shooting a 9-day canyoneering trip in Southern Utah that I hope to enter in some mountain film festivals. Here is the latest sample of some of my advertising work. It's a 2-minute commercial film I wrote, produced and narrated for Chrysler. (At least, you can hear my voice.) Jaron Albertin was the director.

Greetings I'm Robert from North Carolina in the USA- basically I want to make a movie. I don't care about making a career as a filmmaker or having any other professional existence in cinema so much as wanting to make a movie using my gear, my techniques, my story, my whatever!
I reckon my obsession started around 17 yrs ago and I can't help but feel that it constitutes a degree of insanity ha ha.

I did undergrad studies in film in the 90s, bought some 16mm cameras around 2007, and have done nothing with them due to the cost of HQ digital scans.
The announcement of the blackmagic camera along with the recent developments from other camera makers has me excited about the future for us aspiring types. The digital age finally gives us ordinary people the ability to make cinematic HQ images for consumer prices.

Apart from that I have a real job, love old-school action movies, love to learn new things and want to lose 20 pounds!

Hey there. Frenchman living in the UK. I will be purchasing a second hand gh2 very soon along with some legacy lenses. I graduated from Vancouver Film School, I currently write and direct a historical "sound and light show" back home. Can't wait to start filming some stuff, as for now I will be asking you guys questions about gear. Take care.

Hi I'm John. Two months after Lehman Brothers collapsed I graduated from NYU film school with a lot of student debt. Then I moved to Seoul. Since then I've taught English here in order to maintain a middle-class lifestyle and buy video gear, and in March I quit teaching to start a video production company with another expat filmmaker. I owe a lot to Personal View. So thanks to @vitaliy and the rest of you.

Our website: http://www.nykmg.com/ My youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/hadsurvivedto

Hi everybody! My name is Bert, and I live in Munich, Germany. In "real life" I'm an aeronautic engineer. In terms of filming I'm what you would call an amateur. The interest in cameras started when I was still studying engineering. I did some smaller private projects and now I'm atempting to shoot my first short film. I landed on this site because I was looking for professional gear for the cost of a convenient buck. Let's see what the future brings. . .

Hello,

My name is Piet, i am from the Netherlands from a village called Zoeterwoude dorp. I first came to this forum when i started to own a GH2 and heard about it that it could be hacked. Since then i've stayed and read comments , videolinks and topics from time to time. For me working with camera's is really a hobby which i like to do.

I've started with a Canon HV20 (which filmed on HD/Mini-DV tapes), Then came the Panasonic HDC-SD800 along. Both are obvious video camcorders. And i have done a lot of shoots with it. mostly demo reels and shorts. Then i wanted to have something more powerful and better looking video quality for filming. That is how i have changed from camcorder to a Digital MFT camera. Since then i am hooked to this GH2/GH3 department. In time i've collected 5 lenses for the MFT camera's, all in different sizes and formats. And i am still very pleased with it. Everything fits over from GH2 to GH3 so it is very easy for me to say to stay with this format since i own a reasonable amount of gear for it now.

I work with Sony Vegas "mainly" for video editing. A few years back adobe after effects was my first choice but it was more time consuming to learn. So i decided to stay with Vegas.

My Future plans are trying to make a work out of this video shooting and do world travels and take my Gh2/Gh3's along. Want to know more about me, just ask :)

Hello!

My name is Andrew and I am from California, USA. I didn't begin exploring movie-making for its own sake but rather as one piece in a larger design. Currently, I have a grand vision of fusing experimental recordings of classical music with motion pictures, with an emphasis on compelling story-telling. So, this is my passion project and this place has been an invaluable resource on my journey as I continue, step-by-plodding-step, towards the realization of this creative vision.

Cheers!

I'm a filmmaker from Iceland. I had a GH1 which I hacked and shot a short film on. I spend way to much time scratching that mental itch following film blogs and forums. I guess I've learned a lot and I'm grateful for everyone's contributions (specially those who are thought out and based on experience). However, I'm sometimes a bit frustrated about how much weight equipment gets in the chatter, so I've tried to provoke discussion to other practical and technical aspects of filmmaking.

I'm very cynical of the ideas of the "indie revolution" and the prosumer market. Although I think the democratization of expression is possible - Capitalism turns this into more people buying more objects that make them feel greater, with not as significant progress in the production of art. I've tried to experiment with co-op style collaboration and other forms of working together. Here's my website: http://www.otraluna.com

Hi! My name is Alexander and I'm from Bulgaria - indologist, photographer, for the last two years involved in a project for making a documentary about a tribe in the Himalayas (GH-1, 5Dmk2). Thanks for all hacks and patches!

I've been lurking for far too long here and so have just recently signed in. I've been using the GH1 for about three years and continue to resist the need to trade on/up. Previously I worked with Canon XM and Sony PD cameras going back a few years. I spend more time on photography these days than video but I tend to work on two or three small projects a year. I don't think I'll be buying a GH3 but, famous last words! Anthony - UK.

Despite the average and reasonable accomplishments I got with the anamorphic adapter and 35mm adapter, and also some prizes in festivals here and there, my personal and professional life is a total failure/flunk and I am just a looser in all aspects. But I am still alive and I am trying to put my efforts to change how it will end, I believe I still have some years to change it, now I am more mature to avoid basic mistakes and to not give up, it will be a long run...

Hi, my name is Marco Ciafarone. Thank you everyone for sharing your knowledge and experience. I'm 29 years old and i've playing around with videocameras since I was eighteen. I come from Italy and I've been on one year scholarship in a college near lake tahoe, nevada - great experience! I like freedom, expression and peace and music (videos). I'm working on a couple of low budgets as director/jack of all trades and Im about to finish my first screenplay for a short movie (about a young poet born and lived in my region in the sixties).

Hi, I am a videographer from France, here is my work: www.vimeo.com/60830054 And here is a trailer from a dvd I made: www.vimeo.com/56107463