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Not so good for documentary or typical consumer use, but it can be worked around if you're shooting more creative/controlled shoot kind of work.]]>Jun 16th 2010 9:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/16/panasonic-lumix-dmc-gh1-gets-firmware-hack-for-new-high-quality/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/16/panasonic-lumix-dmc-gh1-gets-firmware-hack-for-new-high-quality/Jun 16th 2010 1:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/16/panasonic-lumix-dmc-gh1-gets-firmware-hack-for-new-high-quality/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/16/panasonic-lumix-dmc-gh1-gets-firmware-hack-for-new-high-quality/Jun 17th 2010 3:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/16/panasonic-lumix-dmc-gh1-gets-firmware-hack-for-new-high-quality/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/16/panasonic-lumix-dmc-gh1-gets-firmware-hack-for-new-high-quality/http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/forumdisplay.php?f=206

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Does it? Because last time I checked the GH1 had an articulating screen, a viewfinder that that doesn't blackout during recording, and the ability to autofocus while recording using video-optimized lenses with silent focusing. The GH1 (When shooting AVCHD, not MJPEG) will also record until your card is full, and -- via adaptors -- can use almost any lens you throw at it, including lenses that could never be adapted to the T2i because of flange-distance issues.

The T2i is a fantastic camera too, and Canon is currently dominating the v-dSLR world in terms of video quality, but there's still quite a bit of differentiation between different models in terms features and abilities.

-Happy GH1 user. (And 7D user at work)]]>Jun 16th 2010 10:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/16/panasonic-lumix-dmc-gh1-gets-firmware-hack-for-new-high-quality/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/16/panasonic-lumix-dmc-gh1-gets-firmware-hack-for-new-high-quality/Jun 16th 2010 11:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/16/panasonic-lumix-dmc-gh1-gets-firmware-hack-for-new-high-quality/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/16/panasonic-lumix-dmc-gh1-gets-firmware-hack-for-new-high-quality/Jun 16th 2010 11:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/16/panasonic-lumix-dmc-gh1-gets-firmware-hack-for-new-high-quality/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/16/panasonic-lumix-dmc-gh1-gets-firmware-hack-for-new-high-quality/http://www.zacuto.com/shootout ]]>Jun 16th 2010 11:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/16/panasonic-lumix-dmc-gh1-gets-firmware-hack-for-new-high-quality/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/16/panasonic-lumix-dmc-gh1-gets-firmware-hack-for-new-high-quality/Jun 16th 2010 1:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/16/panasonic-lumix-dmc-gh1-gets-firmware-hack-for-new-high-quality/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/16/panasonic-lumix-dmc-gh1-gets-firmware-hack-for-new-high-quality/Jun 16th 2010 2:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/16/panasonic-lumix-dmc-gh1-gets-firmware-hack-for-new-high-quality/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/16/panasonic-lumix-dmc-gh1-gets-firmware-hack-for-new-high-quality/
Promoting the "high bitrate" of a video codec is like bragging that your car uses more gas. Um, what? Let's look at quality instead.

fyi I own a GH1. The camera itself is amazing value, truly disruptive technology. But the firmware-hack marketing is rather annoying. Unless they manage to accomplish something significant, but that seems unlikely.]]>Jun 16th 2010 12:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/16/panasonic-lumix-dmc-gh1-gets-firmware-hack-for-new-high-quality/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/16/panasonic-lumix-dmc-gh1-gets-firmware-hack-for-new-high-quality/
Wow, you're wrong about pretty much everything you said. You couldn't be more confused if you tried.

This is the effort of a single individual that has nothing to do with Panasonic. I wish Panasonic would wake up and issue a firmware of their own that does at least as much as this hack does.

So every camera might as well shoot at YouTube quality, then, right? Since it's like bragging about how much gas your car uses... (WTF?). Hollywood should switch over to FlipHDs instead of using film.

It's not marketing and tester13, or Vitaliy, has already accomplished a whole lot. No more 30 minute time limit for European cameras, ability to use 3rd party batteries, changing language, flipping between PAL and NTSC, and, best of all, changing the bitrate in AVCHD and MJPEG (not to mention going from 4:2:0 to 4:2:2). Why is that useful? Because the previous AVCHD implementation was (perhaps intentionally) crippled, meaning if you moved the camera too much or too fast, you got codec breakup (referred to as "mud"). Now it's almost impossible to break and the quality is strikingly improved.

For a project from one guy that's available for free, I think that's accomplished quite a lot. If Panasonic themselves issued a firmware update like this, even then it would be remarkable. People are now comparing the GH1 (a $1200 camera, $500-600 without lens) to the 5D Mark II (a $3000 camera), even coming to the conclusion that it can surpass the 5D in many ways.]]>Jun 16th 2010 3:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/16/panasonic-lumix-dmc-gh1-gets-firmware-hack-for-new-high-quality/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/16/panasonic-lumix-dmc-gh1-gets-firmware-hack-for-new-high-quality/
Haha. The marketing forces downranked my last comment into "oblivion".

Do you know tester13 personally? I don't think so.

Do the tester13 hacks improve IQ (image quality) on the GH1? No, not really. Just bitrate. Try them and see.

If this comment is downranked to oblivion too, it will be abundantly clear that the "firmware hack" is truly a marketing project, not a "one-man Russian sooper hacker" project.

Shills & fools, teh interwebz iz full of 'em!]]>Jun 17th 2010 3:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/16/panasonic-lumix-dmc-gh1-gets-firmware-hack-for-new-high-quality/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/16/panasonic-lumix-dmc-gh1-gets-firmware-hack-for-new-high-quality/Jun 16th 2010 4:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/16/panasonic-lumix-dmc-gh1-gets-firmware-hack-for-new-high-quality/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/16/panasonic-lumix-dmc-gh1-gets-firmware-hack-for-new-high-quality/
Harry Patch.]]>Jun 16th 2010 6:52PM