Panasonic announces availability of 14-140 lens firmware update

frosti7 you shouldn't believe in rumours! altho heres another one for you...

john conner becomes a terminator, thats the reason they have wanted to save him the whole time... yes the baddies! plus if you look at the terminator salvation posters that have the half face from the darkness photo style, it looks like they have tried to make john conner look like big arnie! it could even be an overlay of certain features, hint to where the story is going perhaps...

as john connor says in salvation... this is not the future my mother warned me about! meaning throw away what you know!

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a guide to reading movie posters :smile:
1. symmetrical format suggesting a mirror of two opposites, good on the right (marcus) and evil on the left (connor) hinted at by the direction of the eye brows, connors same as the terminator.
2. the arnie like look of connor.
3. connors eye colour is the same as the steel and industry of the machines, and marcus has a nice human colour.
4. notice the direction of the light sparks passing from connor through the terminator to marcus, as they say... follow the light, the light is your guide.
5. terminator salvation... who is the savour? it suggests a question but lets everyone make the wrong presumption.
6. technically both faces have a red eye from the middle terminator as their own.

all this could be just my imagination but i do know for fact that the people who make all the posters and artwork do like to use a bit of symbolism, everyone does who creates wether they are conscious of it on not.
anyways it was fun talking about it as i'm hyped about the relevance of the terminator story in our current times.

terminator V (5) john connor v kyle reese

ps: if james cameron reads this and steals my story please give me a few quid :smile: hahaaa
 
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OK, Confirmed. I updated the lens firmware without disturbing the hack!! I'm at 0.0 for body, 1.3 for lens. I was nervous but it worked perfectly. Followed the directions on the final download page from Panasonic. (except for the recommendation that I upgrade the body firmware BEFORE upgrading the lens firmware). No thanks to that offer.
 
apologies for the terminator rant, it was posted in the cafe forum, i've no idea why its in here lol.
 
How is the new FW working out for you?

How is the new FW working out for you?

My initial report:
Stills: no change
Video: slower but more reliable (preferable to the old one)
 
you sure frosti? i find autofocus alot faster in stills and in video focusing from one object to another while auto is faster too.
 
Lense update 13

Lense update 13

"the lens update is named ES1003thirteen.lin"

Nice to see that Panasonic chose to honor our very own TESTER 13 by naming this update after him... Cheers Vitaliy!

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again new version for lens 14-140 20101207 v 1.4
Improved the stability of O.I.S.(Optical Image Stabilizer) and AF(Auto Focus) in movie recording.
 
Wooohooo!!

Wooohooo!!

again new version for lens 14-140 20101207 v 1.4
Improved the stability of O.I.S.(Optical Image Stabilizer) and AF(Auto Focus) in movie recording.

Thanx for the headsup! installed and runing on GH13, my first impression - and the first impressions are: the first impression is... ok ok..
it does seem to stabilize noticeably better at 140mm! (distant object)
 
Thanx for the headsup! installed and runing on GH13, my first impression - and the first impressions are: the first impression is... ok ok..
it does seem to stabilize noticeably better at 140mm! (distant object)

Do you have the hack installed?
 
Does the lens firmware actually get installed in the lens itself? If I install the new lens firmware on my GF1 do I also need to install the lens firmware on the GH1 and GH2 that I will be using?
 
Is it recommended that you hack the GH1 to GH13 first and then update the lense firmware? I haven't had a chance to hack mine yet.
If I update the lense first, will it lock up the GH1 body firmware protection scheme?
 
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