Günther Machu made the very first hacked GH2 vs unhacked GH2 versus GH1 comparison. On the his vimeo page you can read the full report. In short: “The 720p60 clearly benefits the most from the hack. The hacked 1080p24 mode shows a finer noise in the dark areas with less keyframe pulsing.”
The hacking is fully ongoing with continuos updateds. Keep an eye on that personal-view forum topic to see more image smaples and user reports.
I still didn’t get many rumors about the next Panasonic GH3. But one thing I noticed is that in US the GH2 is getting cheaper and cheaper. The GH2 with 14-140mm lens is now in Stock with a $250 disocunt at Newegg.com (Click here) ->(found via Noisycamera) and for $1446 on Amazon (Click here).
More links to GH2 product pages: [shopcountry 16254].
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it’s difficult to see the differences from a video posted online. maybe when viewed on one’s editing software, it might be more prominent.
i’m quite satisfied with the gh2, the way it is.
That’s the best thing about the GH2, even out of the box videos and stills look great. The hack does help in the more extreme situations at the cost of filesizes. A moderate tweak to the settings baked into the cam does help quite a bit without too much of an explosion in saved videos.
file sizes are already large. i’m currently editing a project that i shot on the gh2, and it’s 616GB!!!
i don’t think i’m ready for larger file sizes, my computer might explode.
If you want a crazier deal than that I have my silver GH2 with 14-42mm lens on eBay for a mere $879. Didn’t want to paste a link because I don’t know the rules on that.
Why are you selling it?
Because I bought an E-P3. I originally had the E-P1 and wanted the better high ISO performance. I liked that part of the GH2 but wanted to go back to the smaller form factor, plus I wasn’t doing enough with the high end video capabilities and have so many legacy lenses that I missed the Pen’s IBIS (I only owned two lenses with OIS).
Why didn’t you use the new buy and sell and dpreview?
What does this test prove if the shutter speeds are different?
The exposure and/or lighting is different between these two shots, and nothing in the close-ups is in perfect focus, so what does this comparison demonstrate exactly?
Yeh agreed – the HQ gain is not viewable as the brightness is lower and so you can not compair details!
based on the video, i see the hacked GH2 seems cleaner and better colors and contrast.