Recent content by pannyfreak

Watching a behind the scenes video on The Social Network, every camera had an LED display on the left side of the matte box, like shown here: http://www.imdb.com/media/rm802391040/tt1285016 What is it?? :)

The mode that keeps the 3 second buffer so when you press record it actually starts from 3 seconds AGO (cool feature!), does it suck up more battery when enabled since it's constantly throwing the full 1080 HD signal + audio into the buffer?

On page 54 of Vol 2 of the user manual, when describing the low/mid/high gain settings, the ISOs and video gain equivalents are listed as: 0dB = ISO400 +6dB = ISO800 +12dB = ISO1600 Also, on page 41 of Vol 1 when describing the gain switch settings "The default value is ISO400/0 dB" People...

According to this online brochure page: http://pro-av.panasonic.net/en/af100/feature02.html It shows a sample of the focus-in-red display. Will this work with manual lenses (such as Nikons through a non-communicating adapter) or only with the Micro 4/3 communicating lenses by Panasonic and...

A lot of comments on sample footage seen around the net seem to praise the footage immensely in terms of sharpness, color richness, but one critique crops up repeatedly: Image noise. Particularly in the blacks. BUT - Are we forgetting nearly all footage on the web from this camera is coming...

From the fun guys at Fofic Media Solutions, comes a sample of panning L to R and back, and flipping through the ND filters. Between :36 and :48 that just looks like 16mm film to me: The DOF, color balance, 24p, 180 degree shutter, solid image. Very impressive. And exciting! We are finally...

A still frame from Joe Walker's original AF100 test last month (available here): A still frame from today's anonymous shootout: (Where he just slyly reused the footage from the above test!) hehhee Same footage pixel-per-pixel from the AF100, just color graded to match the Red Footage from...

I found this picture of the right side of the camera (with the handstrap). Many people were wondering why this side was mysteriously never shown in any of the pictures we've seen all day... Here you go: