@driftwood the work that's going on here in tremendous, the group efforts and tweaking is amazing to watch. I test and post, evaluate and combine. It great. But I will always remember Lester bookbinders command of light and composition... one of the greatest US / English Photographer ever and his two assistants...Tony and Ridley. Sedna is moving now lets see where we go.... Thanks

@feha Agreed.

@LumixUser what was the iso for your sat result is it iso 1600 ?? it looks like iso 2000+ i will try the same if you post your setting which u used for this test. is it standard -2-2-2-2 or ????

@cinemon

The hack does not produce an image composed and well lit. It just improve movements, details, and sometimes color. You can even find it on Vimeo or Youtube movies with excellent quality made ​​with the GH2 and its original firmware.

@LumixUser Even before clicking on the pictures to view them I could see a huge difference between Sedna and the other two. Not only could I tell (at that small size) that Sedna has a much finer detail in the color noise but it's also brighter.

Thanks Nick for a great fix.

EDIT: When I say "finer" detail what I really mean is no blockiness to the footage at all. This has got to help with the sky banding issue etc.

Hello here is my video gh2 with sedna 20q... comment...and visit my youtube cha.

@cinemon @driftwood @Vitaliy_Kiselev our team completed a short film which runs near 1/2 an hour (orion v4b),.. i cannot upload any of those clips as its going to be submitted for an Indian short film festival the second major rule for participation is not to share content until the festival gets over.(by june mid i can share whatever is taken) going to start 2 low budget commercial films named "inru muthal iravu" and "vidhi enn 8" (in Tamil an ancient language of India) both of them will run at least 2 to 2.2 hours,..budget for the 1st film is around $ 42,000 the second one which is a bit higher $ 1,12,000 shooting is scheduled from July to October this year,..until then i will be using my gh2 and my friend's gh2 for short films and some regular test shootouts,...i will order 2 more gh2 next month...with a pan cake 12mm , 25mm g and 45 macro g ,.as suggested by the masters of this site,..my flight is on 16th April going back to India ,...will be in western ghats for 6 months,. preproduction & shooting is set over 11 hills, 7 wild falls and in 3 very deep forests of south India,... i am planning to invite sir driftwood and vitality for the audio launch or for the first preview show,...i Dont know what will be their situation on that time,..but sure i will invite and will provide all the facility,visa, travel and essential expenses,..the first preview will be played in chennai, tamilnadu (kollywood) hopefully by dec 2012,... these films will be edited in final cut pro X and will be again converted to 35mm film for the first commercial print,...2 zoom h2 field recorders will be used 3 gh2 14-140 kit ,.,100-300 zoom,.,. 25 prime.,., 12 pancake (fish eye converter and wide converter from sony).,.,45mm macro,.. polarized filters and nd filters from matte box,.. 7 inch lilliput hdmi,.. gh2 couplers..,2 external chargeable battery packs which can hold camera + monitor + filed recorder for up to 12 hrs,..1 i7 dell laptop + 3 2tb high speed external hdd for backup & rough cut after shoot everyday with vegas pro 11,.. most other essentials like jib cranes sliders lights will be taken for rent,.. pre production crew 5 members,...shooting crew 9 members and post production crew 7 members including music composer & audio professional,..website will be lauched in 2 weeks from now,..(anyone from our personal-view.com team can message me regarding this if they are very interested to join our unit) @driftwood (i hope i will end up finally with a patch will stick to sedna A Aq1 if it really does the best job, in the woods, need more advice from you before its too late..)

@Driftwood After Using Driftwood 176 mb/s for a log time, it was great patch but was disappointed with Rocket Quality but SEDNA C Blow up my my mind, a stunning thing ! Big Quality ! incredible image for cheap camera ! SEDNA C Make my Day ;-) here's my first test, SEDNA C Carl Zeiss Planat 1.4/ 50 ZF SanDisk Extreme Pro 32 Gb 45 mb/sec ISO 160, WB: incandescent

@stray. You commented "Sedna AQ1 A huge difference to Q20". Can you elaborate on the differences you saw?

@LumixUser Could you compare Sedna AQ1 with the Q20 version using your grain test you used earlier?

My second test LUMIX GH2_SEDNA Q20_LENS:Mc Jupiter-9 85mm visit:

http://www.youtube.com/user/andyvia68/featured

tx. Andyvia68

@andyvia68

I certainly wouldn't call the ability to render more detail with less blocking "too extreme" The goal is to minimize the compression artifacts to get as close to raw as possible.

If @LumixUser runs the grain test between Sedna AQ1 and Q20, this may be interesting. It's probably fairly close to AQ1.

Also, there is something very smooth about the vibe from Sedna. These tests show the differnence in rendering of fine detail.

@driftwood has always been very clear regarding his strive for improvement in 24H image quality. Sedna is currently on top!