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It's Official: Firmware Update for DMC-GH2 / G3 / GF3 / GF2 coming
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  • rainsrains
    it does take effort to make both of them look bad, the footage isn't the problem, my technique is deafly not the problem
    :) it's the size of the cams, and very comfy position canon has, people have asked me if i used 5D and L glass so i know what you mean.
  • rainsrains
    It's a showreel from a production company they expect it to be red, or your telling me they know what red looks like? haha
  • kazuokazuo
    So it's Dec, but still no firmware update in sight
  • ShieldShield
    I was going to post a reply saying "Firmware available" and then "Made you look!". :) But alas, I too am waiting.
  • stoneystoney
    Dec aint over yet :)
  • ShieldShield
    @stonebat
    "will be available worldwide from the beginning of December". That was yesterday.
  • stoneystoney
    "beginning"....

    Dec has just begun. The beginning ain't over yet. Gawd. You guys sound like my 6 yo kid.
  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev
    Yep. Beginning is everething before the end :-), So 30 Dec is also beginning :-)
  • ShieldShield
    No. There is a beginning, middle and end. No sane person would say December 30th is the beginning of December. Using that logic, everything is the end that comes right after the beginning. So December 1st @ 12:01 A.M. is the end of December.
    Where is my firmware????

    :) Just bored out of my mind at work. 6 year old is pretty good actually; I was going for more like my 5 or even 2 year old at home. Which I will be annoyed by all night thanks to NO FIRMWARE. :)
  • fehafeha
    they will make it as a x-mass present ... :-)
    so not beginning, not end than middle ...
    these two days in Dec looks to me as two years ...
  • ShieldShield
    LOL @FEHA you have the bug too!

    I guess I'm just dying to know if I can toggle the ETC mode while recording. That'd be amazing if I could.
  • kazuokazuo
    Am looking forward to noise reduction. And also curious about the cryptic "24p editable mode". It's so esoteric, I dun know what the marketing pp at Panny are really saying
  • exhardyexhardy
    Panasonic released the GF2 new firmware on (Oct. 5, 2011) when they say beginning of October ...
    so I think the GH2 new firmware will release very soon ...
  • RRRRRRRR
    @rains :)
    the comment was from a third party (someone I don't know) watching the footage, unaltered..
    The director of the showreel (who's also a part of the production company) liked the look of the gh2, hence I got to shoot most of the stuff..
    It had just gotten the gh2 back then, so it would have propably looked a lot better if I've shot it now. I definately would not have used stock gh2 either. ;)
  • otcxotcx
    Every begining has the end and every end has the begining.
  • TomasoTomaso
    "Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."
    Winston Churchill
  • TomasoTomaso
    So perhaps within 2 weeks from now:-)
    Worse things have taken longer than expected.
    Be patient
  • starstuffstarstuff
    Actually I don't really understand the big anticipation for the firmware update?
    I'm a bit curious too but chances are they simply just deliver what is being listed on their page.
    Meaning no 25p and especially no 4:2:2 or even 10-bit. Maybe some day in the future I can see another small firmware update if they should release new lenses to justify such a release. Maybe THAT update will include 25p. But anyways...can't be really bothered with 25p, I know some of you do though so there :)
    I'd be happy to see some bugs gone, as well as curious to see what the improved noise reduction actually does.

    If this update would give us access to the full power of the camera I'd be super nervous but this...meh!
    Sorry if I sound like a party pooper but take it easy :D
  • BaykushBaykush
    On the official site it states "[EX.TELE CONV. (Extra Tele Conversion)] can be set ON/OFF separately in photo or video recording"

    If this means tele mode will be available for photos too.. That would be wonderful by it self.
  • DazzaDazza
    EX Tele is available for photos already, you just have to make sure the size of the photo you're taking is set at smaller than Large
  • AmandaNLAmandaNL
    Indeed, but only with jpg, maby now also in raw .....
  • DazzaDazza
    Huh I don't see the point as EX Tele is just a crop anyway, you can do it in post yourself if you're going to use RAW
  • fatpigfatpig
    for people who dont want to use the full megapixels in their photos to save space? maybe..
  • nomadnomad
    Exactly. Doesn't make much sense for photo – you gain more freedom for framing by doing your own cropping.
  • mpgxsvcdmpgxsvcd
    My guess is that we will see the firmware this week.
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