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Translate FAQs in other languages

lenuisible — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:10:18 +0000

@Vitaliy_Kiselev I think it would be nice to have the FAQs translated in other languages. If we provide you with the translation files, could you add small flags corresponding to the other languages ? I would take care of french, I'm sure other members will do the same for their language, we could use this post to list the on-going translations to avoid people doing the same work.

Wiki discussion

cyfernoa — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 01:41:37 +0000

Hello all. In a recent thread there was much discussion of creating a GH2 hack wiki. Vitaliy agreed that if (someone or more than one) would be willing to donate time and energy in maintaining it he would support it. So this is basically a calling out to anybody skilled in the art of making wiki's to get the ball rolling so we can all keep the boards free from the same repetitive questions and create an environment that is better suited to the testing and creation of better patches.

Moving to Stockholm

chauncy — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:44:25 +0000

Hej.

I'll be moving to stockholm next month with my family. I lived there in the 90s. I could use some advice in the following areas:

1) where do you get camera gear? - what are the best stores in town - what happens when you buy something from amazon or bh? I assume you get hit with the 25% mums tax but what else?

2) Where are the best places to connect with people who make short films? Students are fine but where else?

I'm not a film professional but want to do small budget high-quality shorts.

Thanks for any thoughts/

Friction Arm measurements

oscillian — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:59:46 +0000

Ok, pretty strange request: Any one with a 11" friction arm that could tell me the length of the protruding bolts that screws into 1/4"? Like the one in this picture: http://oliviatech.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/friction-arm-kamerar-400x295.jpg I'm talking about the bolt with washer going straight up in the top of the picture.

d5100 60fps

osmar92 — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:15:16 +0000

Can anyone tell me if 60fps for d5100 is coming or not?

How to Start a Revolution

Aksel — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:34:32 +0000

Political and Wall Street Establishment wants to manage the Decline of the USA

NickBen — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:49:54 +0000

Newt Gingrich (Presidential candidate, past Speaker of the House of Representatives under Bill Clinton, said today (paraphrasing) :

" the Establishment in New York and Washington want to manage the Decline of the USA so long as they win..."

He is of course only saying this to gain the VOTES of upset Americans and Tea party voters now that he looks to be losing momentum, but sometimes the Truth comes out when politicians are backed into a corner and sinking fast...

Desktop PC

Diffusion33 — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:56:40 +0000

Hi everyone,

My mac laptop has finally given up and it is time to upgrade. Since i'm doing a lot of music, photography and now video since acquiring a GH2 in january (which is giving me great joy), i'm considering splashing out on a dell XPS 8300 Desktop going all out Max memory, max graphics and a raid hard drive....

Has anyone got any suggestions apart from this beast would be greatly appreciated. Please no mac chat! i have been burnt. I must say their customer service was great but the machine itself was not up to the job and kept breaking down at the most critical of times making me look like an ass loosing me good gigs.

I currently have a decent enough samsung screen but i will be upgrading to a 32inch LED screen in a few months for video work and pleasure.

Thanks

GH2 Color Banding Bashing

Maxwell77 — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 09:52:54 +0000

Hi everyone,
I had always problems with color banding with my GH2. For this reason I tried the hack. I am very disappointed that the color banding problem is still alive. I cannot use my GH2 for professional work. No way...The color banding in blue clear skies is awful. The hack was my last chance to keep this camera... The higher bitrate do not change this behaviour. Perhaps it is not possible to solve this issue. Probably the 8 Bit is the problem. Did anyone found a solution?
Best regards, Maxwell

New Opener for The Walking Dead

ace_rimmer — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:13:32 +0000

Looks like they are going in a new direction for the rest of this season!

Europe: from stagnation to collapse

Diffusion33 — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 14:50:53 +0000

The Euro crisis of 2011 is a prelude to financial chaos in 2012. Efforts to prop up the system have failed, threatening a fresh financial crisis and perhaps the collapse of the Euro itself. A mass movement against austerity must be built.

http://www.counterfire.org/index.php/articles/analysis/15370

Must watch : The Wire (HBO series)

lenuisible — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:51:37 +0000

Nothing new here, but I can't refrained myself from making the lucky guys who never watched this discover it.
If you tried to watch it, and didn't get convinced seeing the first episode, try harder, at episode 5 you'll be hooked.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wire

Others really good HBO series :
Carnival, Oz, Deadwood, The corner

The faster-than-fast Fourier transform

perder — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 07:27:48 +0000

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/faster-fourier-transforms-0118.html

Most of this is greek to me, but a couple of parts stuck out:

"Under some circumstances, the improvement can be dramatic — a tenfold increase in speed. The new algorithm could be particularly useful for image compression, enabling, say, smartphones to wirelessly transmit large video files without draining their batteries or consuming their monthly bandwidth allotments."

"An eight-by-eight block of pixels can be thought of as a 64-sample signal, and thus as the sum of 64 different frequencies. But as the researchers point out in their new paper, empirical studies show that on average, 57 of those frequencies can be discarded with minimal loss of image quality."

Vimeo embed is down

eyefi — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:26:46 +0000

from the vimeo help page: "...old style embed codes seem to have been broken globally at vimeo."

Megaupload is closed by FBI

Manu4Vendetta — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:08:53 +0000

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/01/megaupload-shut-down-by-fbi.html

English Wikipedia anti-SOPA blackout

Roberto — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 04:45:30 +0000

Today, the Wikipedia community announced its decision to black out the English-language Wikipedia for 24 hours, worldwide, beginning at 05:00 UTC on Wednesday, January 18 (you can read the statement from the Wikimedia Foundation here). The blackout is a protest against proposed legislation in the United States—the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. House of Representatives, and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) in the U.S. Senate—that, if passed, would seriously damage the free and open Internet, including Wikipedia.

http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia_anti-SOPA_blackout

Mario Kart Wii is hacked too !

lenuisible — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 06:07:18 +0000

After 2 years I've taken my Wii out of the closet last week to play with friends, and it reminded me how good MarioKart Wii is. So I searched to see if something had been done, and good surprise, for almost 2 years, you can play custom maps (there is something like 128 maps in the pack I dl !), just using a normal Wii and a SD card : http://www.mariokartwii.com/f72/play-custom-tracks-only-sd-card-no-61493.html

Didn't tested all of them, a lot are not very good, but some are fun.

A good wiki for all that stuff : http://wiki.tockdom.de/index.php?title=Main_Page

CES 2012 Commentary: Has Apple actually slowed the rate of technological Progress?

NickBen — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 03:16:50 +0000

Has Apple actually slowed the rate of technological Progress over the last 3 years?

I ask, because as I look at my receipts over the last several decades, 80's, 90's, 00's, I notice one thing...

Over the last 3 years, the pursuit of "Green", thin, small, portable, flash-based and interconnected Apple iPhone/iPad competition has actually slowed the pace of technological innovation overall...

We are still buying tiny 2TB 7200rpm drives after 3 years, instead of 15,000 rpm 5TB drives? Hard drive warranties went from 5 years to 90 days on some models? Quad CPU desktops are nowhere to be seen anymore... More green low-power cores are preferred to the fun raw Megahertz races? I have a 3 year old Acer laptop with Blu-ray player and 1080p 18.4" Screen, that smokes upcoming 2012 Ultrabooks? I used to get UNLIMITED voice and Data for $60, and NOW In the US, we pay big bucks for low-speed wireless data with GB caps! $30 Paid basic cable has standard definition VIDEO, which is actually WORSE than free 1080 over the air signals! Apple Thunderbolt over copper with few devices instead of Light Peak over optical? SD association released UHS-2 standard a year ago, and nobody has released a single device!

Don't get me wrong, I appreciate Apple-inspired price drops on small SSD's and RAM and social media, but that's about the only residual benefit as far as I can tell, which I think would have come along anyway.

Am I the only guy that would prefer the glory days when Progress meant things got faster, bigger and ate more power and space, when Full Tower cases included Power supplies, motherboards supported quad CPU's, Tube Monitors looked great and weighed a ton (My Viewsonic 17" tube hasn't quit from 1993, I sold my 21" Cad monitor a decade ago), and 18.4" Power Laptops ate batteries in a single DVD showing?

just a random thought for 2012 on my 3 year old 1080p BlueRay laptop bought from Meijers for under $1000...

PS. Apple haters need not bash, I am commenting on general technology progress that chases Apple's direction (and profit margin) ... no dislike intended for Steve Jobs or Apple product users.

must be wrong but they talk about a GH3

telesteric — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 14:10:24 +0000

if you follow this link it offers an underwater housing for pani gh3, does some one knows if it its true or not???, my german its not good at all and i can see on that link that they talk about canon and sony.

http://www.uw-fotopartner.com/UW-Gehaeuse/fuer-Systemkameras-mit-Wechseloptik/UW-Gehaeuse/fuer-Panasonic/BS-Kinetics/Unterwassergehaeuse-fuer-Panasonic-Lumix-GH-3?c=3105

checked on Bs-Kinetics website but no sign of this product at all.

I think it must be me dreaming with the GH3

Link Request

4CardsMan — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:37:55 +0000

For those following a thread, it would be very useful to have a link on the main page that takes the user to the last page in the topic.

GH2 driftwood hack in shootout with Canon C300

chauncy — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:30:18 +0000

Along with canon c300 and others. Check Mr. Bloom's site.
http://philipbloom.net/2011/12/15/christmas-shootout/

Still getting PMs for Tukvid

Jspatz — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:53:11 +0000

Can someone take care of this. Thanks

autofocus for taking pics?

kenoah — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 06:54:42 +0000

Autofocus works in video mode but not in picture mode. Is there anyway to force it to work?

Putting US Debt in Perspective

qwerty123 — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 11:08:44 +0000

"Today, of course, we live in a more complicated world, in which American financial markets are intertwined with other nations, and in which a substantial part of our debt is indeed owned by foreigners. But what a lot of people apparently don’t know is that while foreigners have a lot of claims on America, America also has a lot of claims on foreigners. Here’s the way the national balance sheet vis-a-vis the rest of the world has evolved [see pic]

So the big rise in US debt hasn’t been accompanied by an equally big rise in our net obligations to foreigners. And in the past few years, as the budget deficit has exploded, the trade deficit has actually been lower than pre-crisis –which says that the big recent rise in debt is very much a rise in the amount Americans owe other Americans, not a matter of selling IOUs to foreigners.

Again, I’m not saying that debt is never a problem. But it’s not the kind of problem people imagine."

(It'd be interesting to see exactly who owes the US money.)

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/29/the-burden-of-debt-again-again/

One trillion frames per second

lenuisible — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:41:15 +0000

The device has been developed by the MIT Media Lab's Camera Culture group in collaboration with Bawendi Lab in the Department of Chemistry at MIT. A laser pulse that lasts less than one trillionth of a second is used as a flash and the light returning from the scene is collected by a camera at a rate equivalent to roughly 1 trillion frames per second. However, due to very short exposure times (roughly one trillionth of a second) and a narrow field of view of the camera, the video is captured over several minutes by repeated and periodic sampling.

Video :

Explanations :

Markdown

Vitaliy_Kiselev — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 19:19:05 +0000

We moved to Markdown for messages formatting (and you can still use plain HTML)

You can get some idea at:

http://stackoverflow.com/editing-help

http://www.simpleeditions.com/59001/markdown-an-introduction

50 usd wager

kenoah — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 05:50:53 +0000

I bet 50usd donation to big V that nobody had a better new years than me.
The proof has to be shot on a hacked gh2.
My footage is coming soon

YEEEEEE

Viagra pills on my screen when browsing this site

Shaveblog — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:06:57 +0000

Help! I hacked my GH2 with Driftwood's Hugh G. Rection patch and now I'm seeing all these tiny blue flying Viagras on my monitor when reading these threads! Is it my Class 4 SD card? Is it my tragically unmodified Nady SCM900 mic? Is it because I don't believe in Magic Lantern?

Question: What dictates if a camera's firmware can be hacked or not?

richman — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:44:20 +0000

idk if this topic is appropriate for this forum, because I haven't been on this site for long, but I was wondering, how come only Canon and Panasonic have hacks for their cameras? How come Nikon, Sony, etc doesn't have hacks? Is this due to a type programming limitation? It is because of the manufacturers? Is it hardware limitations?

New Member

wedphoto — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 12:40:15 +0000

Well , im honored to be a member. Everyone here has a whole lot more experience than i do. I seem to be having trouble finding out how to post reply's to people posts. I dont see a button or anything that will allow me to. Anyway i have two Gh2 i use for wedding video and a 7d and t2i . Eager to learn from all of you and pleasure to meet you all.