That sound the GH2 camera makes, some think a fan...

Jockomo

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I've heard people question before whether or not the GH2 has a fan inside.
After hearing the sound I'm pretty sure I know what it is.

There is a speaker inside, i think behind the panel that the screen lays against when it is closed.
It plays the audio back when you play your video clips.

The sound is crosstalk from the processors etc being amplified and you are hearing it come from that speaker.

You can check this by putting your ear up to the back of the camera in a quiet setting and turning the focus on a fly by wire lens (I'm using the 14-140). You will notice that some positions of focus make more noise than others. It's likely that the audio won't appear in the audio track unless your signal is really low and unlikely that the sound would make it to any mic further than a foot away, so I don't think it's an issue.

However listening to the noise and how it changes, I could see how this might be the same kind of thing leaking into certain iso settings and causing the blue band. Maybe it's just that certain settings emit more crosstalk type noise for whatever technical reasons have to do with the magic that goes on in that processor. (like the way different settings on the focus emit different amounts of sound and are not really linked to where you are on the focus throw.)

Anyhow, just my observations and a guess at what the sound is.
 
Turn OSI off and it should go away. It's just the sound of the motors or whatever in the lens for OSI, nothing to do with the speaker or a fan. :)
 
This forum gets more paranoid and bizarre every day. ;)

Does anyone just shoot video anymore?

Then again, I spent five minutes yesterday trying to decide if I wanted to change out the Tamrac camera strap with "flames" on it, with the OEM "Lumix GH1" strap that my latest GH1 came with. How lame is that? (I usually hate "branded" OEM straps, but I'm getting tired of photogs asking WTF kind of camera it is. :D )
 
paranoid and bizarre?

Someone posted a thread that asked if there was a fan.
I never thought there was a fan, but I could hear the sound and it sounded familiar, so I thought I'd make a post, you know in case anyone else was just wondering the same thing.

I'm not sure how that's paranoid or bizarre. I'm not even suggesting it is a problem.
I wonder why people read these forums if they don't like people asking questions about a camera.

Anyway, for those who are not bothered by a noob asking questions in a forum, it makes the sound regardless of the OIS switch, but it doesn't make the sound when powered up without the lens on it, so yea, it's the lens.
 
This forum gets more paranoid and bizarre every day. ;)

It actually doesen't, just like it's not more hostile than ever before like many seem to insinuate (I know you're kidding around...5 minutes on your camera strap!)
I was trying to gather some info on the HMC150 to answer a question for another member and wound up reading a thread from back in early 2008....BELIEVE me ...plenty of bizarre and plenty of hostile postings back then as well (I don't think the OPs thread is bizarre/paranoid at all BTW...he's just helping others who may be!)
Back to 2008 - People arguing over the yet to be released HMC just like people arguing about X camera now...
Funny thing is though - A lot of people were saying "Well the Scarlet's going to be out soon, so I'll just wait until after NAB"
The more it changes the more it stays the same.
which I don't mind BTW....debates, funny comments, information exchanged..it's all fine by me (other than those occasional absolute ovet the top people who attack others personally)
 
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Sorry, my comment was dickish, just poking fun at something that might spiral into an internet forum phenomenon...like how if you shoot a "short film" of your girlfriend riding the metro...handheld at ISO3200 with no lighting...from the back of a Jeep going 35mph...with the kit lens at f5.8...then put frame grabs under a microscope...it doesn't look identical to footage from Apocalypse Now. Then it will be determined by a few select internet forum "experts" (like myself :D ) that the "bug" was limited to a certain serial number range of GH2's produced between 9 and 12 weeks before the great Panny-factory destroying earthquake of Japan, that exhibit this problem. A call for a "hack" addendum will come forth, to disable the mythological on-board CPU fan that causes blue Smurfs and FPN to dance across the screen when activated...ruining perfectly good cat videos. :D

I'm just being a smartarse. Heck, most of my footage looks like crap compared to the "what's wrong with my footage...it's full of bands" clips I see posted. :D I just burn the sh*t to disc and put it in the mail, and am tickled to death I have three cameras for half the price of a POS VX2000.

Scarlet...jeez...yeah....I remember (a LONG time ago) it when on for YEARS and YEARS on the wedding videographers' forums...."I'm not going to give up my PD150 yet for an FX1...because I'm going to get a Scarlet when it comes out next month!" Right...how's that ancient PD150 working for you now? Coming soon? :D Keep shooting those 12-hour Chinese wedding receptions for $400 a pop...and burning through $50 worth of DV tape full of sparklies...you'll save up plenty of money for that Scarlet when it goes on the market in 2016....only to be out-gunned by a Droid cellphone camera. :D
 
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