Here's a more clinical comparison the AF100 (left side) vs Flow Motion v2 (right side):

Lens: Leicasonic 14-50mm f2.8-3.5

ISO 200; f6.3; 1/60 second

AF100 Scene File was matched to GH2, using CINE-V with NORM2, WB 5.6K

GH2 patched with Flow Motion v2, in Smooth Film Mode, WB Sunlight A-4 M-4

AF100 footage was shot in 1080p30 PH mode.

GH2 footage was shot in 80% Slow Motion in 24H mode, and conformed to 30p.

Footage was cropped and composited in After Effects CS5.5, rendered at 50Mbps.

GH2 Film Mode settings:

Smooth

Sunlight WB

A-4

M-4

AF100 Scene File settings:

Detail Level: -3

V Detail Level: 0

Detail Coring: -4

Chroma Level: -2

Chroma Phase: 0

Master Ped: -2

DRS: OFF

Gamma: CINE-V

Matrix: NORM2

Skin Tone DTL: OFF

@LPowell if you wanna match the gh2 on resolution, turn it up. Try resolution and v resolution to +2 and start from there. I would also lower master ped a little since af100 seems to have darker blacks

I have af100 camera and gh2 and i consider af100 to be the better camera on overall performance. Gh2 has better resolution but not so much as in the video. Af100 has a lot more settings than gh2 to tune to get the picture you like. If you film a closeup of a woman you usually make the picture softer, on af100 you can adjust the detail level to make that shoot. In gh2 you have to do the softening in post. LPowells video was filmed with -3 on detail and i think that is a little to soft. I seldom go under 0 detail because then picture starts getting soft and i dont like it since i use gh2 as b cam

Another flow motion test here. I noticed for the first time after my GH2 had been sitting in intense heat for a few hours that there were are times where the framerate got a little wonky and there were exposure trails which normally would not be there. Don't see how the 2 are connected at all though. I did this video to test low light and a higher 1600 iso to see how well it holds up. You have to download if you want to see what the shadows actually look like.

@L1N3ARX I've seen the GH2 malfunction after sitting in direct sunlight for a few hours. Mine shut of spontaneously and the firmware update feature stopped working for a while. After it cooled off it was fine.

@peternap, I made sure not to include any footage with the exposure trail / judder symptoms; I was only mentioning it as an anomaly that I noticed in some of the footage later in the day, after the GH2 had been cooking in my camera bag under the sun.

@LPowell, never noticed any frame rate issues / judder, or anything out of the ordinary in your footage after it was baking in the sun for a while?

@bwitz i agree on blocking and mud on af100. Thats why i got the hyperdeck shuttle. Got rid of all problems for me, even motion is good now. Gh2 has some fast motion issues also if you go fram by frame.

I invested some time into tweaking GH2 Film Mode/White Balance settings and AF100 Scene File settings to match each other more closely. This gave me even more appreciation for how cinematically the GH2 handles highlights compared to the AF100. Unfortunately, the built-in gamma curves available on the AF100 all produce noticeably higher contrast than the GH2 in Smooth Film Mode with Contrast at -2. The AF100 gamma curve with the lowest contrast is CINE-LIKE D, but its highlights are still a bit extreme compared to the GH2's. This gives the AF100's highlights a telltale videocam edge reminiscent of the HVX200.

I was, however, able to achieve a much better color and contrast match than my previous attempt. Guided by advice from AF100 Book and the general consensus on the forums, I initially set the AF100's Detail Level to -4 (on a scale of -7 to +7), which is considered rather sharp by most AF100 afficionados:

http://blog.abelcine.com/2011/04/06/af100-scene-files-created-by-abelcine/

The results I got from that advice, however, were disappointingly soft compared to those of the GH2 using Flow Motion v2, as can be seen in the videos at the top of this page. I eventually boosted Detail Level to -2 and found that the key to matching the GH2 was to set the AF100's Master Pedestal down to -9. That also crushes most of the low-level sensor noise from the CINE-LIKE D gamma, which allowed me to reduce Detail Coring (noise reduction) to the minimum at -7. To my eyes, this produces a major improvement in image quality, making AF100 footage look much more like the GH2:

Sorry about the discrepancy in framing, it's due to the AF100's slightly different crop factor and the height of its lens mount. You can download the original, unedited AF100 and GH2 footage here:

Here are the settings I used on the GH2 and AF100, which I think produce a more pleasing daylight color balance than the defaults on both cameras:

GH2 Daylight Settings

Film Mode Smooth

Contrast -2

Sharpness -2

Saturation -1

Noise Reduce -2

WB Daylight

A-3

M-2

AF100 Daylight Scene File

Gamma CINE-LIKE D

Matrix NORM2

Detail Level -2

V Detail Level -2

Detail Coring -7

Chroma Level -1

Chroma Phase 0

Master Ped -9

DRS OFF

Skin tone DTL OFF

@robbin I tried setting DRS to 1 as well, and it did handle AF100 highlight blooming at bit better. Unfortunately, I noticed that DRS can compress details in dark areas as well, which I found highly undesirable. In general, I'm not a fan of the auto-DR features on any of cameras I've used.

@dmoreno Yes, you can lower Flow Motion's 24L and FH/H Video Bitrate settings independently without affecting any of the 100Mbps video modes. To obtain a 24L peak bitrate of 40Mbps, you'd want to set 24L Video Bitrate to about 36M.

As the bitrate setting is lowered, the encoder will compress the video data tighter to stay within the peak bitrate. This will typically have little or no perceptible effect on low-detail static scenes. It's with active, highly-detailed scenes where the reduced bitrate will start to show. In practice, you can set 24L as low as 20M for static indoor shots.

@vankickem Sorry, but lowering HBR peak bitrate to 40Mbps would reduce the bitrate of 1080i FSH and 720p SH modes as well. Unfortunately, Panasonic did not include a lower bitrate version of HBR mode similar to FH and H modes. To get motion picture quality comparable to 24H mode, HBR really needs its 100Mbps peak bitrate.

@Lpowell Thx for your answer, i don't need the 1080i FSH and 720p SH modes, I'm only working with the HBR mode, but i don't like the big files, i think halve off the bitrate is ok for my Projects. Please correct me, when i reduce the 1080i FSH and 720p SH mode to 50 Mbps, the HBR mode is 50 Mbps also?

@Loganm187 I'd like to try to reproduce the problem you encountered. Can you provide more details on the shooting setups where you've seen the camera stop recording?