I too, like gameb looking for ways to reduce noice as well. I'll try the My Color settings.

@gameb. I'll try that out. I also select RAW for shooting as well. Just still in the learning stages. Thanks

There are a few strange things about that camera: Now when I shoot in 720p, put the ETC modus on and record it, everything is fine. But in the last days, what happened when I pushed record, the image would jump even more closer, like a double etc mode. Now it stopped doing that, don't ask me why, in the meantime I was changing a few settings.

@rambo the GF2 didn't refuse to go to ETC mode in 720P. It went correctly to ETC mode in the first place and then after pressing record it jumped to an even closer image, like from amplification factor 3.9 to 5.0. I read about that somewhere in these days before, don't remember where. It happened to other people before. That was pretty bothering, because you couldn't really frame your picture precisely. But now its gone. Don't ask me why.

I don't understand how you adjust settings in "my color" and still use manual mode "M". When I adjust settings in "my color" and then switch to "M", my settings are gone.

This thread is about the stable settings, but I have another problem, the HDMI out does not work while recording so I can't use external monitor ...

@stonebat , I know is not bug :-) but is bugging me ... Maybe start new thread ...

Here is the test I did for a time lapse at sunset with pvdogs patch. wanted to test spanning .. worked perfectly spanned 2x flawlessly.. I also wanted to see how bad the auto ISO adjustment was.. yes it adjusts for avalable light , butdoes it rather smoothly, no huge jumps in iso like some other cameras I've attempted to use, didn't expect this to even come close to as good as this did.. it adjust very finely over time.. The end long fade was added in post.. but worked for my needs for sunset/sunrise time lapses.. Got pretty grainy after that , but was still perfectly exposed, but probably at 32 billion ISO.... lol

If Vitality and team gets manual controls figured on this, were going to be so happy with these little cheap cameras.

@Ebacherville Good footage. Manual setting is needed after all

I think that until Vitaity, does not come with the option of manual video, try all these settings, it is a bit useless ..

@pvdog, finally stressed your patch to breaking point.. well it didn't break, as in stop recording. But was able to throw enough at it to make it do some major blocking .. the high motion shots of the water (like the first shot in this video, look at the sky , major blocking .. however only on those shots with massive motion detail.. the other shots that have sky are not blocking .. now that being said, considering I tested this on older class 6 cards and one was a class 4 I think.. and it worked perfectly, its still a great compromise for quality and reliability even on slow cards. In my quest for perfection of the GF2, I think I might go to a higher bitrate patch and higher class cards .. Might try cake 2.0 as feha posted above.. but still like your patch allot.. great performance even on slow cards unless you kill it with extreme motion shots that have chunks of non motion in them. Youtubes reencode lessens it , in my original footage, and 35mbps YT upload, its very apparent.

@Ebacherville

These are stream frames from Mysteron posted by driftwood http://www.personal-view.com/talks/uploads/FileUpload/ef/2408936b64fc25841039e5db70377d.png

These are stream frames from pvdgo's settings posted by me http://www.personal-view.com/talks/uploads/FileUpload/1f/753041f8833cf41fbe59315eed36ba.png

Notice the 'health' of P & B frames compared to Mysteron.

My gosh I'm totally dumb founded.. here is a render to QT uncompressed of that 10 second shot from my Vegas Pro timeline.. blocking is totally gone.. Sony HAS indeed screwed me again.. this 10 second clip in QT uncompressed is over 2.5gb.. WOW pvdogs patch is going back on my GF2.. And I'll figure out a better way to encode video for showing to everyone than Sony's own xdcam @ 35mbps... it is absolutely scary that sony's own format is totally messed up! I think I'll bring this to work tomorrow and drop try it in final cut at 2560 x 1440.. should total prove it as a solid patch. my god totally unreal!

Ebach - what version of Vegas are you running? If it is the new version, it is pretty shocking that it worsens these problems.