@benzopilas You want to sell yours? How much do you want for it?

Guys, I've been into this also. It's like the classic; "if you know what to look for it is there". I think we can't fight panasonic with this. They never promised something like interference-free picture? Doesn't say so in the manual. It sucks, but it is like force majure in legal documents. :( They WILL get around it legally. The ONE way to go is if a majority of people bring this up. On blogs or wherever.

It could hurt reputation and it might be an impact on sales. I doubt it, cus this is low end consumer camera (although capable of wonders). So most people won't give a shit, or most ppl won't notice. It's just pixel-peeping.

I don't know what to do. If you have the camera - work around it??? maybe. Or address it to panasonic/lumix!!!

They ought to know about it. But if there are no flaws and everythin is perfect...????? - There goes the software developers, there goes the engineers, there goes the technichians , there goes the sales rep. Ha ha ha. It's their livelyhood. Business is: Why fixs problems straight away? Cynic? maybe? Just buy the new "IMPROVED" stuff (but they knew about the flaws - it's a known flaw - they will fix it in near future ha ha ha)

Imagine people at the engineer side; "fuck, we know this is kind of a problem but let's wait it still works, let the sales rep take the shit... of course we know how to fix this but we need to keep our jobs,lets postpone - we have families to feed") HA A HAHA humans

So.... BAD NEWS EVERYBODY!!!! I was just talking to Panasonic UK Support Team and I was told that they are aware of that line but it is NOT classified as a fault!!!! It's classified as one of characteristics of the camera!!!! WHAT?!?!?!? Has anyone of you GH2 owners out there been advised about such a characteristic of the camera at the time of purchase? I know high ISO digital noise is a characteristic. But some HORRIBLE horizontal line across the screen?!?!?!?!.... Now I would like to ask everyone with GH2 to check their cameras in low light using ISO 3200 (push it to the limit until you start seeing that bloody line) and let me know how you feel about that 'characteristic'. THEY HAVE ALSO CONFIRMED THAT ALL G2 AND GH2 CAMERAS HAVE SUCH A CHARACTERISTIC!!!! So you're not alone out there. So let's do something about it and teach Panasonic a lesson. Do not let them turn their own fault into characteristic!!!! EU Consumer Legislation states that the goods you bought must be fit for the purpose it was bought for. And in this case you have no rights if you were aware of the defect before you bought it. Well, I haven't been advised of such a characteristic of the camera. Have you? And Panasonic says that no firmware update will fix that 'characteristic'. Do they really expect us to live with that?

I did a short test.
and yes now i have seen it, i see it every time. :(
if there is a light source on the left or right site off the lens.
When i move the gh2 up and down, the horizontal band go's also up and down.
Sometimes its just one line, other times it are two or even more small horizontal lines

So it looks like the camera has some technical limitations and Panny optimized it for 1080i60 @ 1/60th – which might make sense for some markets. Looks like we have to live with it.

BTW, the Scarlet-X is out ;-)

Has anyone tested if this is possibly related to this topic? http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/1280/gh2-iso-noise-bug-at-320-640-and-1250

@JamesAllenVisual I didn't really have time to go thru a test on all of the cameras but I remember seeing it on one of them when I did 12800 iso shoot in black and white.

@JamesAllenVisual: I hear you, for sure. It shouldn't be there. I am thinking the same thing. I bought mine from a physical reputable store here in Sweden. So within 1 year I think it is possible to return it if there is hardware malfunction. I had contact with PANA rep here, but they had never heard of the problem (go figure) - so they advised me to contact the service department which is a third pary private tech firm outsourced by PANA. And as the communication from service dep was sluggish I hesitate. Maybe not worth it at all? Maybe if I can bring my cam to the shop and we can do a comparison between cameras? But its a hassle. Don't think they want to unbox brand new cameras either. It's a project. Maybe it's worth it? I would wish for this not being an issue though. :P

@kanintesova The problem is that even with a fast lens (I use the 20mm panny) it's really obvious in city night scenes. I filmed in an area with decent street lighting and cars but at certain points it is very distracting. Remembering to switch to 1/30 sorts it out but it's still quite annoying. Good lighting is definitely a must for most stuff you can control though. Can be worked around. Just be nice to know if every GH2 is the exact same or if some have it worse. Hate not knowing if mine is just one of those that has it bad.. 10 days left to return and get an exchange.. hmmm :)

@alexpj19: This is my conclusion as well. Get some proper light rigs he he. Anyways cameras love light. Maybe also super fast lens, but in some situations we don't want shallow DOF - so bring in the lights I say. :)

Why would you be unable to unhack? Just load the original firmware, change nothing but version increment, flash this.

The band is most prevalent in mid register..

I saw a work-around for post production, I think it was further back in this thread? Actually, If you grade in AE then you could make a custom preset to remove it.

That works. I can see that it's 1/50 shutter by the place it is stuck. The noise is terrible anyhow. But noise is OK - it is really annoying with a fixed stripe though. If I was to do some serious stuff I would get some lights of course. But maybe documentary DIY style it sucks. Also B&W looks cool with the noise and you can go high ISO. So this band is annoying then. :(

But the topic here is if EVERY cam has it. I think so. To more or less degree.

I'm going to do a test this weekend. But this is not really scientific, we can not really se a big difference maybe?