Oh yes, I'm with you. Was merely pointing out what we can do until we have a hack solution ;-)
If possible, that is... I read people say it's just the nature of the sensor itself, let's hope that's not true -.-

Have read a lot on this but only now found this thread. Keyphrase is "edge sharpness".

Tips I've collected from all over the place to help soften the edges in your videos:

- Prime lenses, shoot wide open
- Diffusion filter, Tiffen...Schneider...
- higher ISO, some suggest between 400 and 800 (cannot confirm this yet but apparently the edges result to be softer?)
- lower the in-camera sharpness and contrast to the lowest setting possible

I only own a few "cheaper" lenses but using my old 50mm f/1.8 Nikkor so far seems to produce a much more softened skin/look compared to the kit lenses that come with the GH2. Have tried a diffusion filter too but I'm not yet too sure if it's any different than adding diffusion in post.

I hear the Voigtländer f/0.95 gives the softest look so far whilst remaining an overall image clarity and sharpness, can't comment on this myself.

@Ptchaw
"I have a suspicion the additional sharpening with M4/3 lenses @stonebat reports is to compensate for the effect of distortion correction on the image. "

Ptchaw, yes please post images with the contacts taped and not taped. This should be interesting.
If you can, post images of the kit lens at its widest with tape on and off.

@Ptchaw, would love to see some before/after comparisons of the distortion correction on m4/3 lenses.

@Ptchaw Good luck with that. For those who hate the digital sharpening, better to use proven MF lenses. This had been discussed numerous times in some other forums. High bitrate hack boosts images from SLR lenses. Sometimes color grading helps little.

Don't get me wrong. I like m43 zooms. Fast moving scene would mitigate the digital sharpening to some extent. Set it to AF-C and good to go.

@stonebat A definitive way to check that would be to tape over the lens' contacts and do a direct comparison to see if the is a sharpness difference. Would also be interesting to see if the distortion correction is visible. Will try it later...

Thank you!
Also, I agree with you stefanos. The ideal priority would first be bitrate improvements, HDMI, then other improvements.

@proaudio4
there's no final word yet as it hasn't been investigated yet since it' s 2nd priority along with HDMI after the encoder is reached at satisfactory level. If we want to talk probability, then it's most probably possible.

Not unless you want to kill detail.

Same here, I'd like to turn sharpening completely off.

@robbie75vr I.resolution and I.dynamic both have an off mode.

which is an unsharp masking equivalent...