Painting a GH2...

Blackout said:
When it feels like the world is on your shoulders, and all of the madness has got you going crazy - it's time to get out. Step out onto the street, where all of the pink cameras are right there at your feet!


There is only one way to make this thread more ridiculouslerester... and that is to DEMAND that NOT only the camera be PINK, but that it come PRE-INSTALLED with an El DeBarge video:
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You are from a different planet, Blackout....



.... the planet AWESOME :)
 
This is about the LAST thing from my day job I ever thought I would have been explaining here, sure hope she is exceptionally HOT !!!

OK, the guy in video had the right idea, piss poor execution though. You need to completely and thoroughly disassemble the body case before you begin. That means every button, every knob, every hinge, every everything has to come apart. You need the guts pulled as well as any overspray is going to ruin the electronic connections.

When you are done you should have a completely bare case and external components with absolutely nothing attached to them. So far this is kinda what the guy in the vid did, just not far enough.

Then you take 1000 grit sandpaper and bust the gloss of the finish. In order to do it right you have to get in every nook and cranny. You have to do every opening from any buttons etc as well.

You do the primer thing, don't go nuts, just enough to give the color coat something to bind to. When the primer coat is dry you take 1500 grit sandpaper and sand lightly to smooth it out the high spots.

When the primer has now cured a day or more, then you go on to color coat. You start with shooting color on the seams and into or out of the various holes where buttons etc were. Then you set it aside and let that set up before continuing on.

You spray color lightly and evenly across everything, doing so in several lighter coats instead of one heavy one. Let each coat set up before hitting the next so the paint doesn't run. When you have it completely colored let the paint cure a full 48 hours before trying to put it back together.

Now you go ahead and reassemble everything, praying to God you remember where everything goes. With some luck you didn't lose any screws, clips or connectors.

Realistically if you start this on a Monday morning, by sometime on Friday night you should have a pink picture taker.
 
ChipThome said:
This is about the LAST thing from my day job I ever thought I would have been explaining here, sure hope she is exceptionally HOT !!!

OK, the guy in video had the right idea, piss poor execution though. You need to completely and thoroughly disassemble the body case before you begin. That means every button, every knob, every hinge, every everything has to come apart. You need the guts pulled as well as any overspray is going to ruin the electronic connections.

When you are done you should have a completely bare case and external components with absolutely nothing attached to them. So far this is kinda what the guy in the vid did, just not far enough.

Then you take 1000 grit sandpaper and bust the gloss of the finish. In order to do it right you have to get in every nook and cranny. You have to do every opening from any buttons etc as well.

You do the primer thing, don't go nuts, just enough to give the color coat something to bind to. When the primer coat is dry you take 1500 grit sandpaper and sand lightly to smooth it out the high spots.

When the primer has now cured a day or more, then you go on to color coat. You start with shooting color on the seams and into or out of the various holes where buttons etc were. Then you set it aside and let that set up before continuing on.

You spray color lightly and evenly across everything, doing so in several lighter coats instead of one heavy one. Let each coat set up before hitting the next so the paint doesn't run. When you have it completely colored let the paint cure a full 48 hours before trying to put it back together.

Now you go ahead and reassemble everything, praying to God you remember where everything goes. With some luck you didn't lose any screws, clips or connectors.

Realistically if you start this on a Monday morning, by sometime on Friday night you should have a pink picture taker.
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One thing to remember, the thickness of the primer and paint will not be zero, so if there are buttons, knobs, dials, etc that already fit pretty tight with no paint, you may run into problems where they do not move smoothly OR get stuck down in their respective holes.
 
SonicStates said:
You are from a different planet, Blackout....



.... the planet AWESOME :)
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Thank you sir thank you sir, and bless your goats and hens.

Actually, I come from the Trifid Nebula, and yes it is ineed awesome (http://destinyorigin.com) although very gaseous.... so the difference in density from there to here makes my brain a little retarded and makes this planets 'seriousness' seem even sillier to me than my planet...so random ridiculous things throughout time and the akashic records multi verse pop into my consciousness such as Barbie 35mm pink cameras and.. good god... El Debarge.

We now return you back to the insane discussion on how to totally destroy your beautiful GH1/2 and absolutely prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that not only are you broke and poor (why can't you afford the cheap GH2 on your own?), but that you are a whipped little girly man:
 
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Blackout said:
Thank you sir thank you sir, and bless your goats and hens.

Actually, I come from the Trifid Nebula, and yes it is ineed awesome (http://destinyorigin.com) .... but the difference in density from there to here makes my brain a little retarded and
so random ridiculous things throughout time and the akashic records multi verse pop into my brain such as Barbie 35mm pink cameras an.. good god... El Debarge.

We now return you back to the insane discussion on how to totally destroy your beautiful GH1/2 and absolutely prove beyond a shadow of a doubt you are a little whipped girlie man:
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LMAO, Your the best. Don't ever change my friend.
 
Blackout said:
Dude.. I am not even going to get into the psychological implications of how whipped you are that you are even considering doing this...

I think this may take the cake for best ridiculous GH1 or GH2 thread EVER.. and I thought for sure I would be the king of that, but you have topped me.

So I present to you, your trophy:

Get her this camera, it uses real film which TOTALLY blows away the crappy digital garbage and artifacts of these panasonic cameras... AND.. dude. NO aliasing! AND it's cheaper, and MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL...PINK!

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Holy crap I forgot to mention that it fulfills your requirement of having pretty pink stars on it too!!!
 
ChipThome said:
This is about the LAST thing from my day job I ever thought I would have been explaining here, sure hope she is exceptionally HOT !!!
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I appreciate the reply! I may have to test this with a cheap used DSLR first. I personally believe she is hot. I'd post a picture, but I'm sure that's against board regulations and somewhat off topic.

Blackout said:
We now return you back to the insane discussion on how to totally destroy your beautiful GH1/2 and absolutely prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that not only are you broke and poor (why can't you afford the cheap GH2 on your own?), but that you are a whipped little girly man:
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Blackout, I love you. Indeed, I am broke. I am a college student, so it comes with the territory. However, my girlfriend is rich ironically. In short, she wants a "cute pink DSLR" to play with. If I can make that a GH2 then I get something out of this...

I showed her this thread and she decided that she would try using colored sharpies on it. I s**t you not. I will gladly upload a picture of whatever comes of this, however it seems the stakes have raised. I am a follower of RED, and I mentioned the Scarlet... She has agreed to buy a Scarlet if it's pink. However, she said she isn't going to buy a GH2 and then have to turn around and buy a Scarlet - it's one or the other.

I will be attending NAB this year, so hopefully we'll get hands on time with the camera and she can ask someone at the RED booth herself about the possibilities of a pink Scarlet. Otherwise, I will upload a picture of any outcome there is of this story.
 
Dude this is a pretty big choice your doing. I have heard that RED does completely customized orders, including color schemes; so the pink red maybe just be a reality.
 
uhm... your girlfriend doesn't make sense to me.

on the one hand, she wants to shoot video with a pink device, no matter what specs it has.

on the other hand, she want it to be a dslr, which sounds like she is interested in a big sensor. else she would just buy a pink camcorder.


so she is so dumb to judge the camera by it's color but in the meantime she is "clever" enough to buy a still camera for video?

:huh:
 
Andor, thanks for taking the ribbing well. I could not resist and of course I kid I kid I joke I joke.

Please DO post the pic - this thread is so whacked out I'm sure no one would mind going a little "off topic" of a PINK camera.

I had this situation once in my life as well - I had a Venezuelan GF who was smoking hot and loaded beyond imagination that I met at a bar while she was going to the Art Institute in Fort Lauderdale. I was broke off my ass at the time and shooting on the DVX100 I believe, and her parents offered to fund one of my scripts with a 3 million dollar budget so I could shoot on real film

BUT

and here is the big but, I had to marry the daughter and have her as AD on the shoot. Now... needless to say I did not take the deal. You may think I am crazy, but I don't mess with karma, and OHHHHHhhh the hell that would have happened. Later, just to test the waters, I moved in with her.

I kid you not, I know I joke and make **** up for comedy but this is NO joke this is real, I moved out the SAME f&#^ing day! I have NEVER moved into a place and OUT of a place in one day except for THAT time. I moved in early in the morning, and we had a HUGE blow out fight before dinner, and I moved out and was out by 3am that night. My buddies wanted to kill me AND her, but you find out who your true best friends are when someone helps you move TWICE in the SAME day!

The moral of this story.. beware of getting into deals with the devil and by devil I mean your female and by your female I mean your angel whp will quickly turn into your demon when she realizes you are using her love of pink and her $$$ to get you the camera you want. It will work for a little bit but it WILL BITE YOU ON THE ASS in the end. ESPECIALLY SPANISH women. (I apologize to all the Spanish women here on dvxuser which I believe = ummmm 0 )
 
I think I may have worked for your girlfriend before.... this one nutso lady demanded I dress in pink if I was going to shoot her. Her name was Kitty and she lives in LA and nicknamed herself "the pink lady" and her entire house and her DOG is pink:


What are you doing dating old ladies? Oh.. thats right.... you're milking her for a pink GH2 which has now upgraded to a RED.... why not go all out and just paint an ARRI or Panavision 35mm film camera PINK?
 
faultiersid said:
uhm... your girlfriend doesn't make sense to me.

on the one hand, she wants to shoot video with a pink device, no matter what specs it has.

on the other hand, she want it to be a dslr, which sounds like she is interested in a big sensor. else she would just buy a pink camcorder.


so she is so dumb to judge the camera by it's color but in the meantime she is "clever" enough to buy a still camera for video?

:huh:
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It's quite simple logic in her mind. She knows I love cameras and wants to learn more about them, thus she wants something that can take stills and video and is digital. However, she doesn't care about how "amazing" the image is as long as it's good enough for YouTube... She is going to make her own cooking channel on YouTube as a hobby. The catch to getting something is that it has to be pretty. She's willing to pay for whatever I highly recommend, as long as 1) It does good enough for what she wants, and 2) It's a pretty pink.

Blackout said:
Please DO post the pic - this thread is so whacked out I'm sure no one would mind going a little "off topic" of a PINK camera...
...It will work for a little bit but it WILL BITE YOU ON THE ASS in the end. ESPECIALLY SPANISH women. (I apologize to all the Spanish women here on dvxuser which I believe = ummmm 0 )
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I appreciate the life tips, but she's well aware I'm using her. Your story reminds me of the time I was in high school and I got a hot Mexican mom to agree to go to my prom. I met her in WoW and she could only type English and not speak it. Unfortunately, my prom was on May 5th... Cinco de Mayo, and she had a family party to go to.

Had my prom been on a different day, my direction in life would surely be different. Also, she has nothing against me posting her picture, but I don't think it'd be appropriate. It'd almost turn this thread into "is my girlfriend hot enough to risk destroying a camera?" And the topic is more of "Guys... I can get a free camera if I can get it pink without breaking it!"

It seems the best plan of action is now to wait until NAB to see if we get some hands-on time with a Scarlet and she likes it enough. I appreciate all the replies and the helpful ideas / links!
 
Just take her favorite Pink nail polish and go to town on it. If she really likes Pink that much then she won't care how well it is painted just that it is Pink. Then buy a really nice leather case for it when you use it.

I really wanted to go along with everyone else and say just dump her and get the black one. However, my wife said the same thing. If it is Pink then she just didn't want it.

Here is another way to look at it though. If Pink was the only color it was offered in there would be a BAZZILION ladies walking around with Diamond studded GH2s and not a single one of you pansies would dare to buy it. Andor and I would be the only ones daring enough to rock the Pink GH2. Heck, I might just go paint my GH2 pink right now.

Just kidding. The things we do for Women.
 
What's wrong with pink color? My 5 yo daughter got a pink camera. Only $50. She takes decent photo and video. I got her a manfrotto 785B tripod, too.

 
I made up my own color, I called it, "blurpinkle"

It's blurple and pinkle mixed... which themselves even aren't real colors..... it's that cool ass gradient mix of indigo, purple, pink, fuchsia, magenta that sometimes get during dawn or sunset. I didn't want to have to keep explaining all those colors to my DP on a shoot or a web designer... and so to speed things up I just called it "blurpinkle" and it stuck.

Me on the beach enjoying the "blurpinkle" (tm)
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Way way cooler than purple, pink, violet, or indigo alone, and much more importantly, copyrightable and trademarkable...

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People made fun of me when I came up with it...
then the sales of blurpinkle tee shirts and jewelry started taking off and suddenly I was not so wacky! Women love it and buy it like hot cakes. For men to make it cooler you put more blurple than pinkle, such as in my sigil /logo / symbol in my sig.

KA CHING!

So go get you pink camera if that's what ya want or need to do. Please do document it and post up the video! I GOTTA see this.
 
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