I just want an option to disable the whole fu... touchscreen. It sucks! I don´t want it. My GH1 don´t had it and I never missed anything. Now I often accidently touch the screen when filmen and something weird happens. For me it is witless.

@Dom
Are you sure you're focused? Are you trying to manual focus? Is the focus hunting?

@Mark_the_Harp Sorry, I just noticed your question. Not exactly, but likely uses similar technology...what happens is that you set a time frame for a clip, 2min, 3min, 5min, etc, and the camera will constantly record clips of this length until you press a "tag" button. If you press "tag" in the first half of the current clip, the camera will save the current clip and the prior clip. If you press in the second half of the current clip, it saves the current and next clip. Once a clip is not the current or prior clip, it vanishes :)

The POV cameras from VIOSport have this function and it is incredibly useful for recording things like fishing when nothing can happen for long stretches and action comes unexpectedly, but that action tends to be preceded with things you want to remember.

A way to disable the moving of the focus square when (accidentaly...) touching the screen would be very welcome.

"One thing I want to see is lens profiles that you can make on computer and store on your card."

This combined with anamorphic adapters would be golden. Panasonic could very easily ship a calibration card (say a black grid sheet) you take a photo of the card and then the camera could have the option for automatically processing CA and distortion and then save the lens profile on your SD card. I would have to believe this would be less work to implement than the fairly useless face tracking feature and would be an incredible asset for Pros.

Unfortunately they are too worried about disabling 3rd party batteries.

One thing I want to see is lens profiles that you can make on computer and store on your card.
They must include all CA and distortion correction info (working for manual lenses).
Lens name, year of manufacturing, etc.
You must have ability to assign Fn as modifier to set used aperture that will be stored in stills and video meta.

Here's an odd request that I don't know is possible, but would make a world of difference for what I shoot (and I'll be the first to call idiot on myself if it is already possible on this camera...)

Would it be possible to create the ability to continuously record and shed clips of a predetermined length and save only the clips you want saved using a sort of "tag" function?

I'm going to chime in again for an adjustable "crop factor," at least in movie modes.

There is a whole world of c-mount lenses out there, fast, cheap, and good enough for 1080 video. Some have tiny image circles, some almost fill the four-thirds frame, but very few completely fill the frame.

It would be really useful to be able to crop just inside the image circle, so you could use the full field of view of these lenses and get optimal matching to the camera. Since the crop would be performed before it goes to the in-camera downscale to 1920x1080 and the camera's encoder, we could get very good results. (The only way right now to use the whole lens is to crop the already encoded 1920x1080 in post, upscale the crop back up to 1920x1080, and re-encode. Yuck!)

This has to be possible, since the camera is already doing it! It's cropping a 4976x2800 subset from the 4976x3456 sensor, de-Bayerizing it, and downscaling to 1920x1080. All the entrerprising hack programmer needs to do, it would seem, is to change some constants--the locations of the corners of the crop window. Easy!

For example, for a crop down to 98.7% of the full resolution, take the 16:9 rectangle with 4912x2764 pixels that extends from (32,18) to (4944,2782).

If you can make this happen, please include the ability to reposition the center of the crop rectangle. Tolerances in cameras, lenses, and adapters are sloppy enough that the image circle is very obviously off center for most lenses, as people who have experimented with c-mount lenses have seen.

Maybe at first, the crop corners will have to be selected in ptool and therefore hard-coded into a custom firmware, and perhaps accessed by going into ETC mode (though I observe again that curiously, ETC mode
is the one mode where the downscaler is skipped--though it obviously is cropping in ETC mode it may not be easy to add a scaling step.)

But as a longer term dream-feature, it would be super cool to be able to adjust cropping from the camera's user interface, something a lot like the interface that you use to select the focus assist area: a rectangle of variable size and position, superposed on the live view image.

Thanks Vitaliy!

>is there any way of improving the crop mode, regarding the video noise?

No, use simple logic and laws of physics :-)

Any chance of shutter speeds from in increments of 1 from say 1/2th second all the way upto 1/130th second. If this was possible it might be a way to get around the band line problem.

How about making the iExposure activation threshold much much less? :) That would make the GH2 the absolute best DSLR in regards to dynamic range too! Especially if coupled with a lower contrast picture profile.

>#5 is a must for me too.

Hi Vitaliy.
It can be expected changes in improvement GH2 as still camera? ( .jpg - removing yelowgreen veil, etc.)