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Panasonic G6 topic, GH2 replacement camera
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  • Pretty cool Protocol..some of the effects from these old lenses are really good

  • Been doing more shooting with the G6 recently and it's still a joy to use.

    My only qualm with it is the menu system could do with some improvement, not the easiest thing to navigate. Also the options for what is displayed on the screen could do with better customization. It's annoying that the spirit level (which is just a distraction for me) is always on in two of the default views, can't find a way to remove it.

    Anyway here's some lightly graded, low-light, high ISO footage from the G6. ISO ranged from 800-1600 and was shot with an old cosmicar tv lens wide open. All audio was recorded straight from the G6 as well. No NR in post. Shot @ 1080p 25fps MP4 format. The G6 handles mosquito noise pretty well I think.

  • +1 for the wifi, I love it.

  • But you have only qvga and vga quality when use wifi and the focus is suffering especialy in low light.

  • Actually I made some great shots and video with wifi enabled remote on a concert, holding the camera high up above heads on a monopod, and my wife handled the phone ...

  • Well, wifi is a nice feature, I can use my phone as a remote controller, (the first great advantage of the focus by wire tech is i can focus lenses through wifi), and even zooming with power zoom. I can set white balance and stuff, and with electronic shutter enabled it is a real stealth remote camera. Imagine this scenario: During wildlife photography, you can hide the camera in the near bushes where the bear uses to go, than you can make photos safely from a few 10 meters away. Or if our not interested in wildlife photography, you can just hide it in the neighbors bedroom :D Connection set is a peace of cake if you have nfc enabled phone, start the app first, then touch the camera with the phone, connection is made in a few seconds ...

    Back to the froze issue. generally the freeze happens when I suddenly terminate the connection in the phone by going too far away, or exiting the Image app in the phone. if I terminate the connection in the camera first, usually is OK.

  • My G6 has never locked up one single time. I have recorded over 1T with it so far and not a single lock up.

    Then again I haven't ever used the wifi, as there aren't too many options to connect to up in the mountains or on the shore of SF Bay :)

    Cheers, Pete

  • I just bought the G6 a week ago as an upgrade from the GH1. I love the many new features. Only I am not happy with the viewfinder, it is worse than the GH1. The viewfinder is not sharp, it only sharpens when i press the record-movie button. Is it maybe a wrong setting? Has anybody else has this problem.

  • We'll said federiqo

  • A car doesn't necessarily need a spare wheel, but sometimes it's nice to have, and the fact that when you pay for something it's reasonable that it actually works.

  • who really needs wifi ??? is somehow "fifi"

  • I think it's a network problem, the new firmware addresses Mac problems with wifi, but there may be problems with the implementation itself. It seems it never times out and resets, if it did we should be able to fix it by terminating the wifi from the controlling unit, but that doesn't work. You have to pull the battery.

    If you haven't experienced this problem, try to move out of wifi range while issuing commands to the camera, that's likely to set off this bug.

  • I've had it for a day now and with a 28mm canon fd lens it's been reallynice (other than manual focusing images). Mine has frozen up as well while using the wifi function, I guess it's a pretty common thing.

  • Lucky you digitalamator! Mine has done it once already today

  • really guys..you have a strange problem. I dont have any problems likt this.

  • We need to let Panasonic know about this!

  • DeadMeadow, I have similar problems when controlling the camera over wifi, it sometimes locks up and it can only be restarted by taking out the battery.

  • I dont have problem like this. I have a different question....how to live streaming from g6 to pc ?

  • It happened with my G6 too, this should be adressed by Panasonic...

  • Only issue I have had so far with the g6 is that it has frozen during reviewing footage in cam. Have to take the battery out and restart the camera. Wonder if this is because I didn't format the sd card when I first got it.......any thoughts?

  • Hi #Digitalamator. Ok, looked for that settings of continuos video file number but cant find it...where was it?

  • Hi...new to this forum and new to dlsr shooting. Used to have an Ex1....jumped in with the G6 and just shot a few bits on my second day of having the camera. Had pretty much everything on -5 apart from noise reduction. Thought this was the way to go if I wanted to grade. All this stuff was shot at 1080 24p straight out of camera, no colour correction.

    Anyway take a look and any set up tips or advice greatly welcomed! Still getting used to this camera

  • Some old first tests...

  • Just got my G6 and it's quite equal to my GH2 in terms of image quality. I really like better LCD and focus peaking. Keeping both.

  • I have continuos number of file. You can change this in camera settings.