driftwood, I do find blackspot's 720SH vs 720H post above interesting. The macroblocking does appear horrible (look at the detail loss just below the cup) Even if he mixed up which was H verse SH, I was surprised by the large blocks.

@sohus

Seaquake, Quantum's with AQ4 all work great on my Transcend 32gb class 10.. what colour is the sticker on yours? Mine has got the rainbow pattern, came from ebay Taiwan (from the same seller that I got my GH2 from) tested to full capacity (wasn't looking for the cheapest card I could find, but a 32gb class 10 that would get here fast, and that would be express shipping in the same package as the GH2 :))

@sanzadez

Haven't tried Q9b, but Q7 with AQ4 runs great on my transcend class 10 on H, doesn't span. But stable for the entire 4GB worth, no matter the scene and dof (haven't tried any death chart, but have not had a single problem on any of them in any high detail complex real world situation with wide dof, a nd Q7 is lower bitrate than Seaquake which worked like that too).

Quantum100 L setting spans wonderfully on my Sandisk Extreme 32gb Class 10

Tried the same kind of test on my Lexar Professional 32gb Class 10 and it failed to span. It would fail to span with Aquamotion v2 too so that might be expected. From what I understand, the Lexars write faster than similar Transcend class 10 cards so I wouldn't expect spanning to work with those cards either.

On the L setting, 4.29gb equaled 5:47 on the very different tests I ran so I would expect to be able to safely take 5-minute shots on cards that don't reliably span.

Ex-tele works well on both cards.

@JDN I use Aquamotion V2 on interviews and reliability wise this looks equal or better for me. I would go ahead and use it. I plan to use it Wednesday for an entire day's worth of interviews.

First sorry I have little knowledge of these hacks. My question, is it possible to combine the quantum100 24L (50mbs) with the 24H quantumV9b (150mbs) onto one patch? Thanks

@balazer - "We are talking about something that was never expected to work."

Really? Speaking only for myself, that sounds like something I'd be highly interested in hearing about. Anything else you'd prefer we not discuss?

Fantastic stuff guys, thanks to much!

I was wondering if there is any way to reduce the noise in low ISO (160) , Im playing with the latest Quantum, but I just keep getting noise even at 160.

Is that normal or maybe Im doing something wrong?

@balazer - "It is not a discovery to tell us that it doesn't work with some particular patch settings."

All conscientious testing results are of value to me, regardless of whether anyone thinks it's "not a discovery". In commercial software development, every new release is routinely subjected to what's known as regression testing, where a lengthy laundry list of previously confirmed test cases are methodically verified once again. The purpose of the vast majority of systematic testing is not to discover something new, but to positively confirm that nothing has gone unexpectedly wrong.

Variable Movie Mode 80% will never work with the highest bit rate patch settings. 80% mode records at 5/4 the rate of 24p. 5/4 of the highest is higher than the highest. So it can't work. :P It is not a discovery to tell us that it doesn't work with some particular patch settings. Tell us if it actually works at 24L. That would be useful.

Motion blur is quite literally the result of motion, and a product of your shutter speed. If you don't like motion blur, stop moving, or use a faster shutter speed. It has nothing to do with your patch settings. Without seeing the glow that you are talking about, it sounds like a product of the lens and lighting. If you have any doubts, shoot the same thing with different patch settings and with stock settings, and compare.

Thanks

further 720p test q9b with 14-140

720/50 appears stable on sh and h even with 30mbsec sandisk.

I lowered 720/60 : aq :2 and dropped 60fps frame limit a few thousand. It still write errored but took several seconds longer. 95mb/sec sanddisk

@Driftwood Hi! I did some casual screen capture comparison between AVCHD NTSC modes of Quantum v9b. There is slight color shift between SH/H and 24p/24p80% modes, but it might be caused by flickering of lights. Though, there is guite a big compression artifacts/quality difference between 720p SH and H modes. How is it that H mode have way more detail? Shouldn't SH mode be better? By the way, ALL SEAQUAKE and QUANTUM v9b modes SPAN with my SDHC 8GB 30mb/s SanDisk Extreme HD Video- card. Never had a problem. (both pics are captured using Grab from 200% zoomed view) VK, Feel free to move or delete this post, if its in a wrong topic.

@Driftwood Quantum 100!! You made my day Nick. Thank you for this. I've got a wedding this weekend and can't wait to see the results from your latest v9 with the tweaks for docu-shooters like myself in Quantum 100. I did a quick test last night using 2 GH2's with identical settings but one loaded with your Quantum v2 patch and the other with Quantum 100 100/50 patch. Quality is great on both of coarse. The big news however is that the color shift in the green mid/highlights is reduced somehow in Quantum 100. I don't know why - but I'm happy!! The colors seem more true right out of the gate. I also shot the exact same footage comparing firmwares Quantum v2 and Quantum 100 on a single GH2 and my findings about the green shift downwards in the mid/highlights was also confirmed using fcpx rgb parade. Check it out. It's a crappy shot of nothing - but the difference is very noticable in these screen grabs. I have not color corrected these images. Camera settings for both images : Smooth -2,-2,0,+2 Color shift settings : two clicks left towards A, one click down towards M- ISO : 800 24L Takumar 55 1.8 (shot @ 2.8)

Anyone else see less green shift?