@proaudio4 - yes, but this was shot at 400 ISO, which I think is bug-free.

@FGCU I'll try Quantum 2 with the same lighting and post some results.

@No_SuRReNDeR Love the look of those screengrabs.

@shian - it's actually a bit long, around a 1m30s. My only way of explaining it outside of sensor issues is that my CFLs are so poor with their light quality that the GH2's white balance increases the gain heavily on the red channel - that or some severe issue with Quantum 5. I'm going to run a few more lighting tests in a little while, and I'll see if it persists.

If you have FTP somewhere, I can upload all of it, but it would just take a while. I'll also check to see if I have a smaller clip exhibiting the same issues (I probably do).

I went to the beach in Southern California for some test shots with GH2 yesterday. It turned out to be a foggy day so I tested GH2 in the fog. I quickly assembled the clips in the attached video uploaded in Youtube. I used Driftwood SeaQuake 24H with Panasonic 14-140 lens in cinema mode. Video was shot handheld without stabilizer or tripod but still ok. Please remember I do video for hobby, it is not my day job. This is a different winter from @mrsquirrell's snow shots earlier. There is no post processing and video resolution is reduced for Youtube upload. Select 1080p playing mode in Youtube player.

Shot this video with Aquamotion V2 and for now i'm sticking with this patch i think.

Feedbacks would be apreciated

Test shot using the new jib with driftwoods seaquake patch.

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Check it out guys. A parody music video I shot. It's shot on the Quantam v5 patch and we used an HVX200 for the green screen shots.

@driftwood

I made two kinds of AQ4 patches which can span if SanDisk 98MB/s 64GB card is used.
Since my work is sloppy unlike you, in a frame limit, these seem to be limit for me. :-)

BTW, when a frame limit is set to 6208888 and I try on your Quantum-Beta5 of you, recording has stopped in 36 seconds. :-(
Is there any mistake in me in anything?
Of course, I used SanDisk 98MB/s 64GB...

I redid my tests with Quantum 2, 5, Aquamotion, and the Panasonic 1.1 firmware, and it does look like the noise is there throughout all of the firmwares loaded but is slightly more noticeable in Quantum 5 when compared to Quantum 2. Quantum 2/5 both have finer grain and more detail in the shadows than Aquamotion, and the Panasonic firmware seems to have the least grain, but also the least detail in the shadows.

I have the raw MTS files for all four firmwares at:

ISO
160
320
400
640
800
2000

if anyone would like them.

I also tried different white balance profiles, to see if that changed the noise significantly, and white balancing to a card proved to have the least amount of noise.

The clip on Youtube was brought into FCPX using 422HQ from the MTS files, and then compressed to H.264 at 27Mbps and uploaded (484MB). The compression noise from this as well as Youtube's own compression knocks out a lot of the grain, and I'm not sure how to better share these MTS files for comparison. If anyone has better testing protocols or advice, I'm eager for it! I set the ISOs always from the ISO directly below it (on the grid, so, from a higher ISO), as well, so they should all be safe.

*** NEW *** Quantum v6 BETA
New changes new theory. Tuned buffers now set by 'Bottom' Bitrate settings.
1080p24H Quantum v2 style with slight bitrate/ buffer tuned.
1080p24L Great allrounder and amazing QP. AQuamtion v2 tuned. Also 80% mode and ETC mode should work, plus spanning dare I say?
1080i60AQ4/720p60AQ1 for movement, GOP3 and GOP 15 on a new bitrate/buffer ratio.
1080i50/720p50 as before apart from AQ1 for movement.

Try before you cry.