In an extraordinary press release Personal View (Click here) informs that Vitaly and his hacker team finally signed an agreement with Panasonic! Vitaly writes: “Since today we are going to directly participate in design and development of system cameras firmware for selected cameras produced by Panasonic Corporation, and DSC Business unit specifically.”
That’s an extraordinary news you have literally mark on your calendar as remembering for the time being! I repeat, mark it! 🙂
UPDATE: What a good day today! You can even win an E-M5 at E-P1.net (Click here) …LOL!
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This is amazing.
Btw, the link is wrong.
April fools anyone?
GH3 is going to be incredible if only for this reason.
i think its a joke on April 1 :)))
You may be right… 😉
+1000
So true & sooo many get caught. 😀
GH3 NEWS!!!!
Magnesium alloy construction, weather sealed
15.6 megapixel multi-aspect sensor
‘Silent shutter’ option
80-12,800 iso
12.3 Evs dynamic range
Focus peaking
Focus assist lamp move to right side
Electronic nd filter, adjustable
Front and rear control wheels
2.4M dot OLED viewfinder w/ 240-fps refresh rate
Fully articulating 3.2″ 1.2M dot touch screen
Separate lock buttons for focus and exposure
12-fps shooting
Larger, faster buffer
Dual memory cards
Bottom battery grip – optional
@surprised
those GH3 looks plausible/probable have you seen these specs online somewhere?
Happy 1st of April!
1st April, though the news are really plausible.
Gah. Got my hopes up, then realized the date. 🙁
Your avatar is cute and funny Zoeff.
Ditto
I think it’s a good joke due to the date 😉
I admit I believed it at the first reading.
Good one!
+1
lol never going to happen!
Hahaha…… Good one vitali
Happy April’s Fool Day
So the “big thing” is an Aprils Fools prank?
Even if it were true, that would be far from amazing, since it would mean the end of the hacks.
I have to admit that I followed the link to see what date that “announcement” was published. I just assumed it wouldn’t be today. Then I couldn’t find the link…
A Cruel April Fool’s joke
well done!
New Panasonic lens announced 6-600 mm f 0,65, price 100 $ !!!
I already have it on preorder
I have already got it. Too small.
I already re-sold mine on eBay with huge profit.
With pancake retract 😉
Though the point of April Fools day is to fool, it seems misplaced on a ‘rumors’ website, or possibly right at home?
Nice one. Not the best I’ve seen today, but not bad……
It´s not april fools guys..
today is the end of the panasonic financial year , and they changed their management..
So Vitaliy had to be quiet till today..
Vitaliy is not that person who would do such a thing (fooling)
read more here http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/2739/the-big-thing/p3
the revolution starts today!
Yes, I was just about to link this as I’ve just read it a few minutes ago. We should note that Vitaly’s post was 31st March, not 1st April, so if he is bluffing for AF Day then he is somewhat early. Must be true. All good 🙂
Does this mean I have to rename myself Ross #1 or Aussie Ross?
Nice to see I’m not the only one here.
Lol! I don’t post all that often, Ross …. but hey, even Aussie Ross may present confusion as it appears we’re on the same continent 🙂
Nope – it was just after midnight Russia time when he posted.
I also hope GH-3 has 3rd party app or an open source operating system.
let us just assume, this news were true:
whilst this is clearly great for Vitali, i guess that this would strongly affect firmware hacks of panasonic bodies. So no more nice video feautures for those bodies. This also means, that some of the limitations addressed by the hack would persist, as they are based on trade laws (eg. video recording time) rather than design purposes.
Exactly. Panasonic embraced their enemy, and now he is theirs.
…assuming the news isn’t just a prank.
I never even dreamed a company like Panasonic could be so flexible and smart.. AF day or one of the best news ever 😉
Read somewehere that was posted shortly after midnight 4/1, Moscow time 😉
April fools day 🙂
Actually, he posted it 10 min into 1th April local Moscow time. But can you imagine the communal seppuku he would face of this was a joke? I don’t think so!
Hope it’s wrong. The worst thing for these cameras would be for Vitaly to be limited by corporate rules. Panny could have done these things if they wanted to and we only got them because of Vitaly’s ability to not follow the rules because he doesn’t work for them.
ofcourse they could do it, but the gh series is a consumer camera and offering the higher bitrates it would compete with their higher end videocamera.
If this would be true it would be a sad news.
You could kiss your unauthorised hacks goodbye. Hackers can do those hacks not because Panasonic didn’t know how to do those features, but because they didn’t want to release them.
Whilst I’m really happy for Vitaly and his team, I’m not too sure if this is good news for us consumers. We will not get “hacks” anymore. The firmware hacks which enhances the capabilities of the camera, will now be under Panasonics control. So we get what Panasonic wants us to get.
Of course, all this is true only if this is not an April Fool’s joke.
> That’s an extraordinary news you have literally mark on your calendar as remembering for the time being! I repeat, mark it!
I sincerely hope you are right. Because this are actually bad news.
They can’t do anything about a guy outside – but they can screw a guy bound by contract.
This is about as good as Vitaly being sued by Panasonic.
Being hired also means that he, after being fired, would not have right to develop the firmwares due to know-how contract clauses, NDAs and so on. What he did before was legal under, for example, European laws. Now it would be illegal under any law.
P.S. OK. If Vitaly/guys have willingly agreed to it/actually wanted the job, then it is at least good news for them. In this case: Good luck with new job, guys! 🙂
celebrations 🙂
1st April
I will rather wish if it is true.
guys.. every thing that would be hard to vitaliy and his team to get access is now in their hands..
panasonic is listening..and the GH2 will probably get AVC-ULTRA codec which stores 4:2:2 10bit and also new picture profiles that will give you more control and more DR !
how long would it take to hack gh2 so we could get 4:2:2 10bit?
Vitaliy, his team and panasonic wants to bring high end features to their costumers.. I was afraid too that it´s the end of the hacks..but now I think that the real revolution starts now when Vitaliy and his team have access to the interface and can go deeper than before..
I´m wishing all the best for VK and his team..!
and april fools should wake up! Vitaliy would never do such a silly pointless thing as april fools on his forum!
april fools
This is a great way for Panasonic to give the GH series of cameras the long tail so sought after by technology companies. It buys time until the next range is ready
and it prevents customer drift to the competition in the interim.
This is a great way for Panasonic to give the GH series of cameras the long tail so sought after by technology companies. It buys time until the next range is ready
and it prevents customer drift to the competition in the interim.
+1
give the gh2 avc ultra 4:2:2 10bit @ 50mbit
new picture profiles
and few other things (maybe focus peaking, 1080/50p)
and the sales will go crazy..
What’s sad is, it has to be an april’s fool joke 🙁 Pana would really win market by acknowledging third party firmware developers.
It would be terrible because nobody would be able to hack the pana anymore.
lol, true
how about the new Sony Nex-7x with 36mp, also april joke? 🙂
@Admin : btw, here’s what the cinematographer said about using Panasonic GH2 & AG-AF100 on box office movie The Raid Redemption:
http://matt-flannery.blogspot.com/2011/02/start.html
“Just briefly to mention the most important part of the film from my side – the cameras. For the project we will be using two of Panasonic’s new AG-AF100s for our Cam A and Cam B, as well as a Panasonic DMC-GH2 DSLR, Panasonic AG-HCK10 POV Cam, and also a Panasonic AG-HPX500. I used the HPX500 as Cam A and B on Merantau Films’ previous feature Merantau, but we decided early on this would be too big for the shooting style of Serbuan Maut. From very early in this project’s process, Gareth and myself spoke at length about the shooting style on this film, and were already leaning towards the at-that-time unreleased AF100.”
cinematographer John Brawley uses GH2’s hacked too
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1095487/
If this is an April Fools joke by Vitaly, he may have dug a hole for himself! :
“So I guess you won’t be needing any more donations from now on, right? ;-)”
“Exactly opposite. As you miss “for selected cameras” and do not count community administration, moderation, arranging deals, etc.”
It would be a smart move by Panasonic to bring Vitaly inside where they can 1) have some control and 2) use this as a way to keep GH users from crossing over to the OM-D. And interest in the OM-D has to have woken Panny up, right?
Hey, as the admin said, “That’s an extraordinary news you have literally mark on your calendar as remembering for the time being! I repeat, mark it! :)”
:), good fun!
I don’t think it’s April 1st joke, it was posted yesterday.
Excellent move by Panasonic! Next, I expect Ale the admin to become involved in Olympus product planning ;).
It wasn’t yesterday in Russia.
All the dates on his website at the beginning of that topic were March 31st. He should have waited couple of hours more. Not particularly funny IMO concerning that…
I’ve been around personal-view for quite a while now and I don’t believe this to be a joke. If this was a joke, Vitaliy had to recruit very high level accomplices because this show he would be pulling would be his best work so far, even better than The Hack. 🙂
If Vitaly is working for Panasonic, how much freedom do you think that he’d have from a development perspective? Not much. I’d believe this turn of events simply because Panasonic wants control over this hacker’s fine work — not so he can do more of it within Panasonic.
We would lose an ally to the dark side if that were to happen.
HaHa! So true Stravinsky.
The dark side has cookies.
No more firmware updates for us………..April fool indeed
Ahh haha, this totally got me at first. That’s what I get for checking news before out of bed
vk doesnt joke. here
http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/2739/the-big-thing
Mark the day in your calender …
ROFLMAO!!
What about the Canon mirroless image on German website?
The D-IX? (dicks?) April Fool’s?, or not?
I would bet the Canon mirrorless image is an April Fool’s joke (it looks too chintzy and the mount is too large, plus the EVF specs are silly), but the VK news….so much detail for a joke?
-J
Please hack Olympus cams!
+1
Make more options for customizing buttons.
+1
Make more options for customizing buttons.
So. If they have an exclusive with Panasonic does this mean Olympus is now SOL for the OMD? Smart move on many accounts for Panasonic to improve their product and handicap the Olympus offering even more.
If they would ever do this that would be a really bad news! They would buy him so he will not create any new hack that screws their higher end products. They would silence him. For them you cant have a camera that cost 600$ and make it work as a 4000$ one. Hope you get the point, so support him!
who believed that weak joke
WHOA! This news had me jumping up and down with excitement!
It is really a date to remember! What date is it?
Wait a minute…
HA!
I have doubts that it is an April fools joke as he had announced it days earlier and he explicitly said that this was no fools joke in his first post about it.
But it always could be I suppose.
If this was true maybe gh3 could compete with nex7
FT6 strikes back ! 😉
This is NOT good news for the consumer. Panasonic now has a say in what Vitaly works on. In other words, they can and will suppress innovation.
Let’s not kid ourselves.
Like I said, if true then the OMD video is OM-Dead until someone else can make it better. This is a brilliant move by panasonic and I hope not exclusive.
Supposing it’s true, wouldn’t this mean that Panasonic will have control over what Vitaly can or can not do? How much he can hack, which feats he can let us have, which cameras he can choose, etc?
so i was wrong, it was a joke, and a hysterical one if you check out the dub vids.