I just installed this hack over the flowmotion v2.02 and must say I really really like this one. I don;t know how you did it, but the file size is GREATLY reduced but the quality looks the same or even better I must say. With this hack I am getting twice as much record time but still excellent quality. THANK YOU!!! & please keep up the great work I am ready to donate as well when needed just let us know.

Here is one of the better looking segments of the interview.

@me I owe you some 7.5 shots.So far, it's great in standard mode and pretty unexciting in ET. I'll post some at the end of the week though. Keep taking the current events there though. I'd give anything to be there now.

@mee Ralph's right. I generally carry three cameras. One GH2 (lately with the 7.5 sangyang) one GH2 with the 14-140 and a camcorder (usually the Canon XA10) that changes as I upgrade equipment.....and a Manfroto monopod with feet.

Sometimes I take a GOPRO or two to hang on the side rails of my shoulder rig.

The monopod also lets you get high shots and makes a fair club.

@tcarretti

Yeah, it creeped me out. God, what's Bloom up to now?

If I may throw my 2 cents in here, a manual focus lens is probably not the best choice for a situation like this. Using a Panasonic or Olympus lens with the 'manual-autofucus' technique (discussed above) will give you a higher percentage of in-focus pictures.

@peternap

Thanks, I definitely will do things a bit differently next time, but overall I am satistfied. What can't be seen on camera is that the Police man that is trying to secure the gate singled me out when I tried to cross the line the first time, he put his hand up in front of my chest and though there was no contact it shook my nerves a bit. You can see my friend who got caught up in the excitement come back to me saying "let's go", but the officer was still very near, hence the hesitation.

I will be working on breaking the interview of a mother and two daughters up into 2gb chunks for Vimeo tonight, but will have to load it without subtitles till either my wife or friend does some translating for me. the parts I understand were very touching though, and they can actually be seen at 8:30 in the video above. Amazingly they found me in the crowd to say goodbye before going home to Ibaraki (very close to Fukushima).

So Peter, Where is the Farmers Protest? What are they protesting? I am finally considering a B camera, but think a Nice wide fast lens may need to come first. 35mm on a m4/3 was a stretch for this event.

@Ralph

More specifically this is one of several massive protests that have occurred in response to the first reopening of a plant since the disaster which happened about a month ago. The protest before this one had 200,000 people though the police claimed 75,000, and the media claimed 10,000. I found it very strange that the media went with a lower number than the police, but sky shots of that event showed the true number was staggering. The event in the video though likely a paltry 30,000 ;) was a huge deal because it at the street in front of Parliament and the Emperors house. My reporter friend that conducted interviews kept exclaiming he could not believe this was happening in the street in front of the emperors house, saying everyone in Japan would have believed this impossible. It's worth mentioning I could only see as far as the ends of this section of street, and that I saw roughly 30K people here, but it is possible there where many more on the side streets near the castle. I even saw people in the bushes off the sidewalks later in video shots. Also worth mentioning, the 200K protest was at one of the largest parks in central Tokyo. Lastly on the Protest, the police were actually very polite, other than a few isolated arrests it was largely peaceful.

So as for the rest of the story, Japan bought into the government BS for awhile, but after seeing countless scientific surveys of fish, meat, veggie, and dairy products as well as soil samples, and hearing from the clearly more educated and forth comming scientists they have almost all come around to the reality of what happened last March. Where before nearly everyones reaction to my warnings of eating certain foods was "Don't worry, it's safe now", now nearly everyone says something to the extent of "yes it's very bad" and then they usually make a remark about the government and electric company (TEPCO) being dishonest, and only caring about money and not the Japanese people. A complete 180 from when I arrived 10 days after the earthquake and Tsunami. It's pretty much impossible to find someone that doesn't want a clean energy future, in fact the only person that exclaimed to me that nuclear is needed in th last 3 months was a British man. The arguement for nuclear is that Japan has had to increase coal and oil burning at the cost of importing it, but the Japanese people have become keenly aware of very factual numbers for wind and solar generation vs nuclear and fossil, and see the untapped potential of waves and geothermal as well. It always amazing me though when old and young people alike spout out the exact kilowatts that X ammount of solar or X ammount of wind turbines can produce. I can't remember these numbers, but they clearly have them locked in now.

Hope that wasn't overkill of info ;) But it is very exciting watching this nation that just a year ago believed every word of their government, waking up so quickly in unity. I kinda think Japan is going to be showing the world how to do things right.

@mee

Obviously this protest was in response to the Fukushima disaster. What's going on in Japan these days? It's fallen off the radar in the world media.

That ""manual-autofocus"" technique works faster on an unhacked camera than a hacked one, possibly because of the load on the processor. YMMV.

Also the alternative to a half shutter press is to enable touch screen and tap the object you want to refocus on.

@evero I second that. The video Autofocus is 100% better on my GF2's than on the 7D or MkII, but I could assign the focus to other buttons on them. It made life a lot simpler.

The half press on the GF2 is almost impossible for me to do without going too far.

@darkdook

Here's a focus trick I've found helpful in situations like this:

In the Motion Picture menu, turn Continuous Autofocus OFF. Set the focus dial on the camera to AFS. Now, while you're shooting, gently push the main shutter button half-way down, and it will autofocus for you. Release the button and focus will stay at this new point. You can do this as many times as you want during a shot. You can sort of think of it as a manual autofocus.

@darkdook

Really nice. I'm a low light shooter myself, and that's one of the things I designed Sanity to excell at.

Were you using auto-focus?