Good news for all Panasonic GH2 owners! Vitaly (the hacker) managed to dump the firmware of the Panasonic GH2! He can now start the reverse engineering process. It will take some time to understand the GH2 code. But we now have to right to dream the new features we would love to add to our GH2 (50/60P for example?).
There is also one more good news. Unlike the GH1 the GH2 video uses the RAM instead of ROM. You could be able to update the hacked software without to have to install one firmware hack update after another! Go Vitaly go!
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Is it a decrypted. 🙂
is this the big rumor admin? I guess it’s pretty cool for GH2 owners!
any speculation on a possible EP3…? oly hasn’t really been innovative for a while…I want my EPL1 upgrade lol (not a small upgrade like EPL2)
No that’s not the big rumor. The big rumor has t do with Olympus. Veeeery good news. I am talking right now with the source about that. Hope he will allow me to post something (very general)
Hey Admin
Please give us a hint
– is it a model with built-in EVF in rangefinder style?
– sensor related?
one of the two. But please wait til tomorrow. I still need to get the permission form the source to post the news.
Thanks for the reply. Very interesting indeed. I cant wait.
The only way it could be any better is if it was an Oly camera with both an EVF and a new sensor!
that’ll be beyond exciting if one of the two were true.
You have us guessing. One can assume that any new Pen would at least have the new sensor Pany has made for the G3 so that can’t be really BIG news unless it is the GH2 sensor or Sony sensor? If you are going to post something “very general” well “new sensor” won’t do it so must be the rangefinder withe built-in EVF?
Hope it’s a new PEN with foveon sensor!!!
Specifically a crop version the new 15MP foveon SD1 sensor with ISO 200-6400…
I agree safaridon. It looks like an Oly rangefinder with built-in EVF could be possible unless there is some big news about Oly using a different sensor supplier. When I wrote those two options I was just thinking out loud and I didnt want to be too specific because I wasnt sure if admin would confirm any of them. Either way its great news.
50P/60P! 4K resolution! Lossless codec! Jailbreak for cheapo batteries (with auto-fire-extinguisher function)! 16-channel surround sound! Antigravity neckstrap lugs! Magical unicorns that poop Playstations!
If they promise to do the Unicorns I’ll send them some money right now!
How have we all managed to-date without Anti-gravity neck strap lugs! A must have for all keen Olympus owners, and not available on Cannon and Nikon cameras as yet.
Any word on the “Lenin” project?
Vitaly Molodets! ochen sposobnii paren!
Fantastic! Please just give us native 25p (in 24mbps-mode) for starters so shutter 1/50 will match and we can get rid of these microjitters in 24p with 1/50, if you look closely, instead of 1/48 as it should be….
I put my bet on new sensor that $ony accept olympus’s ask to provide D7000/D3100 sensor in 4/3 formate.
Olympus set free of the Panasonic sensor tyranny, free at last!
hacking…..this gh2 sounds more like pc wizardry then photography 😉
Native 1080p 25fps on European cameras would be great, of course. And being able to use 30fps/60fps on European cameras would also be good.
16MP still images using the electronic shutter?
How about IBIS? (Just kidding.)
I would love tethered control for still shooting.
I’d like to see an in-camera programmable time-lapse function, higher bit rates, more variable frame rates, and 4mp 24p. This last one sounds insane, but, bear with me, the thing can shoot 40 4mp images in rapid succession, saving them to the card, so why not?
How about loading Android into the firmware so that people can make apps? Haha.
All I want is MF assist while shooting video. (Or new eyes:>).
Option to disable touch focus!
Update interface and streamline the menu system! Add a GF2 interface mode option (honest!).