Controlled side by side comparisons of before / after footage

[GMC]

Hi folks,

I noticed that a lot of guys started to ask for controlled side by side comparisons of the original and the hacked GH1.

I tried my best in a controlled way (using tripod, fixed camera settings, etc...) to shoot exactly the same scene (a pan) and provide this comparison.

Fellow Viennese Filmmaker Nino Leitner offered to post my findings on his blog (screenshots, 200% crops, etc...):

http://ninofilm.net/blog/2010/06/14/gh1-hack/

It took me about 15 mins to swap the firmware, hence the light had a changed a tiny bit.

I used PappasArt's settings for MJPEG (1440x1080p), and jobless' "safe" settings for AVCHD. Interestingly, I only had a cheap buffalo 16GB class 6 card available, and had no issues with both MJPEG and AVCHD in this comparison.

I have an early japanese NTSC GH1 (now patched to german - thanks tester13!!!).

Later I went into the woods and experienced occasional freezing in about 10% of the highest detail shots, mainly with the MJPEG.

What should I say, the results speak for themselves. Big Thanks to Tester13 and all the other brave testers here.

Let me know if someone needs the original files.

best regards, Gunther

 

[mpgxsvcd]

What kind of bit rates are you seeing for the AVC-HD? I haven't seen more than 22mb/sec so I think I must be doing something wrong.

 

[androoow]

The start of that blog it says .. "As many of you already know, somebody by the name of “Tester13” has released an incredible firmware hack for Panasonic’s GH1 camera that enables this amazing camera to record at higher framerates, which makes it a beast of a camera." should that not read "Bitrates" instead of framerates??

 

[GMC]

What kind of bit rates are you seeing for the AVC-HD? I haven't seen more than 22mb/sec so I think I must be doing something wrong.

I see in average around 34Mbits/s, as I used the lower bitrate settings from Jobless.

 

[GMC]

The start of that blog it says .. "As many of you already know, somebody by the name of “Tester13” has released an incredible firmware hack for Panasonic’s GH1 camera that enables this amazing camera to record at higher framerates, which makes it a beast of a camera." should that not read "Bitrates" instead of framerates??

Absolutely right. I have to tell Nino to replace "framerates" by "bitrates" ;-)

Thanks for giving notice.