Patch question. I'm starting on a documentary this week and I'm looking for a patch that's a bit middle of the road because I don't want my 16GB cards to run out in the middle of an interview. Which patch do you guys recommend for 15 minute interviews recorded in a PAL country? Thanks in advance to anyone who bothers to take the time to answer this question. :)

I should have added that bit of info at the very least. I'm using the GH2. ;)

@Zoke I regularly record documentary interviews on Driftwoods AQuamotion patch (100 mbps, and it spans). You should get about 25 minute record time on a 16 gigger. Find it in the patch vault. If you're not a GOP1 addict, you can also find some excellent GOP3 patches. That said, I'm in 24p land, not PAL so not sure if AQuamotion is what you need.

@JDN Which mode are you shooting your documentary interviews in?

@timK

At least Panasonic it doing something smart.
Do not even try to patch with such batteries.

OK I'm very new at this GH2 hacking. I just got the cams last week and filmed with it stock this weekend and it looked pretty good. My only interest from the hack is to get my bit rate for 1080/60i up to about 24mbps from the stock 17. I don't really care at this moment about the 34 or 42 levels that others are using and I don't use, at this point, the 24p either. I have downloaded all the PTools and .bin files, made the bit rate changes like the "hack for dummies" posts here told me too and got the camera to load the file on boot. I record a short clip and it is still showing 16mbps in my file information. PTools shows the modified bit rate as 24. Did I go wrong somewhere.

I am moving over from the T2i and have had it hacked with no problems so I'm not afraid. I just seem to be missing a step even after following the step by step guides in this thread. Any ideas what I have messed up?

Thanks,

edit: I re-did the firmware upload with the additional languages option selected. The languages all got uploaded so the update "took." I filmed some footage for a few seconds and still got a bit rate recording of the stock 17mbs on FHS. I have the modified 1080/60i rate set to 24000000.

@driftwood - can't wait until the GH2 has more features than the af101- (would be quite sad though if that were also true for the af200)

The camera stops recording after 4.29GB (not spanning). But also the total recording time on my 16gb sd card has dramatically reduced . Before I changed to the 66mbs version I had about 70 minutes. With the 66 it was 38 minutes. Now back to 44 its only around 45 minutes capacity. Looks like may be the camera didn't change properly the settings back to the 44mbs version. Maybe I did something wrong with "version increment"? The 66 version had a 1 and on the 44 version I put a 10.

@Brian202020. Thanks Brian for you answer. Yes I formatted it for sure each time I used the card for the patches, and I didn't used the card for anything else. What I am really still unsure about, is the "version increment". Like now if I want to try to redo the whole thing again, I understood, that I leave the 10 and don't touch it. Or do I have to put in a 11?

Hi Vitaliy, and all.

Is it possible for these hacks to change the way still photo modes work, in the gh2, g3, or gf series? What cameras are currently hackable?

Is it possible to get auto iso to work when in M exposure mode, so it will meter, and set the ISO accordingly?

This is something every canon, and nikon DSLR allows, as does the oly PENs, but I prefer the controls on the bodies of the panasonic m43 cams, to those of oly.

Also, is it possible to hack the longest shutter speed allowed in A mode, with flash on? Currently it is something horrible like 1/30 or 1/60 which is too slow for my subjects. If auto iso is on, it should bump it up, when it hits the limit, otherwise just give a low ambient exposure.

Thanks you all!
Don

@kronstadt with GH13 bitrate depends on detail in the scene. The more detail, the higher the bitrate can get. Low light and shallow depth of field have less detail, thus low bitrate. I thought the GH1 is 25fps native? If you want true continuous high bitrate, you need a GH 2 and hack it.

I've been trying to hack my GH2 for two days now. I've done all the steps. I first tried to put the patch/hack on my 32 Transcend card and that didn't work so I went a spent $17 bucks for a PNY 4gb Class 10 card just to try and put the patch/hack in that. Still nothing. All I get is the "No Valid Picture To Play". It's starting to get me heated because I want to get the amazing quality everyone else is getting. What am I doing wrong. I tried doing the patch with the PTools 3.63d. I've tried everything. CAN ANYONE HELP ME PLEASE?