Hi @bkmcwd, I am glad to see that you have a GF2. That gives me hope that the hidden powers of the GF2 may be revealed, now! "Would you tell me where the recommended settings in GF2 are?" I'm uncertain of the meaning of your question. Do you mean "in camera" settings, as in "saturation -2, contrast -2, sharpness -1, etc." or the developed Ptool settings that many have shared earlier in this thread? It's exciting, for me, to see a star Ptool developer take an interest in this camera. I am really looking forward to reading your messages on this topic!

@luxis I'm sorry to read that you're still having troubles with this. I loaded the OEM firmware into Ptool 3.65d, the very night I discovered that I too had a line at the bottom of the clip, saved that as GF2_V12.bin, installed that and no line since then. I use 1/50th. 1/60th, 1/100th and 1/120th every day, but no line since dumping all things related to Ptool 3.66d. Here's a test shot that I took and uploaded last night:

I think that you'll get it sorted, just keep trying!

@luxis Yes, that is my conclusion as well. I deleted Ptool 3.66d and all settings built with 3.66d and I've had zero problems since.

@luxis I first tried to fix the line by reinstalling the OEM firmware that was created using Ptool 3.66d, but the line remained. So next I reinstalled the OEM firmware created with Ptool 3.65d and this fixed the issue. I also thought that maybe the camera didn't like my choice of 1366x768 in mjpg, so I stopped using that also, immediately, and I've not had a 'line problem' since. Not very scientific, I know, but this worked for me.

Please tell me - how must I handle with "setb.ini" to activate settings?

@JayB38 Yes, I think that's correct. If you want to read @duartix 's 'timebuster' thread, he says that it's possible to get GF2 to also use 2fps_AVCHD, but no 360deg shutter because of GF2's max 1/30th-s limitation.

@luxis I was wrong! I too had the line at the bottom of the file, but didn't see this until last night. I had to reset the camera settings, format my SD cards, reinstall Pany's firmware, then start looking for the problem (was up late, last night.) I found 2x things, possibly, that the camera doesn't like, that I was doing.

@coors thanks for your input. man, that's a whole lot of formatting! So I did one time full format today and a few in camera ones on a 8gb/30mb san disk card and used it with moon 5, I pointed towards a blooming and colorful tree moving with the wind and the camera locked three times on me. Pull out battery routine followed. Eventually I got one shot of it after I added the flicker 50 limit. Playback still had a few issues. Checked the footage later and it is close to 80mbits no line this time since the light was good. Didn't have lock ups with 32/45mb sand disk in previous tests.

sticking to one setting: for me, I will test moon t5 with other cards and if its stable enough will keep it since I do like the image it renders.

About the line, yes it doesn't look nice at all. Nope its not a card issue unfortunately. It is not there in 720p and with ss100 in fullHD. Just the darn ss50 and 60 in lower light!? Maybe I should do a separate thread on this issue, not to mix things up here.

@coors so you don't have errors on playback in cam with the 95mb card? I have one 16gb/95mb san disk, will test with that. but I still believe is more gf2 related than card issue. Will also test the 30mb cards and see if anything different there in the in cam playback. I do use the SD formatter most of the time, then reformat in cam a few times(paranoid?;), do you use the deep format or the fast? The deep one is the most beneficial but it does take time on bigger cards.

the lines - unfortunately is in the files as well. What I noticed is that if I set the flicker reduction to 60 the line moves lower on the screen(and file) at 100 seems to be gone, so its frequency related, very odd - it may be a faulty camera, especially if nobody else has experienced this. btw it was working ok in one of the custom modes, have no idea why its was ok in the custom but not in the manual (I have it set to 50 in both) then today it seems to be appearing in the custom one as well.

So I am stuck with using 100 I guess which is not the best for natural looking motion.

As far as other settings I will slowly test as many as I can and post here my results. The new and the older clusters(6) and flow motion. I just got the gf2 and plan to use it as a b cam with the gh2 for longer takes(concerts, interviews etc) so will test mainly for spanning with the 32gb cards(don't have the 64 yet)

"Nebula6_soft w/mjpg set to1280x720@2fps" time lapse stuff? interesting! :)

@Driftwood gf2 running Moon-Trial5 - rather stable and great image quality(not on par with the gh2, but hey, I got it for the price of one big and fast sd card;) The issues I had : - playback in cam gets stopped when there is increase in detail(arbitrarily) . Using the same card on the gh2 with moon t5 i have no such issues, so it seems like a buffer issue on the tiny gf2. The card is the dreaded 32gb/45mb , but i have used it extensively without issues on gh2 and the moon trials lately.

i am using the 1080i fsh.

• a few lockups (pull battery resolves it) in lower light and fast panning using AFS, iA, iR with the last two both on low; panny 20mm f1.7

Bitrates varied from as low as mid 20's to mid 80's.

Next is Slipstream :) but will it render the same details as moon 5?

@all as a sidenote, (I hope not too off topic) I am getting a strange line (with any patch/setting, not related to the patch itself but the camera) in the lower part of the image when using flicker reduction at any ss(50,100,etc), when in low light. Have anybody encountered this or is it just my camera? any other workaround to set the ss? for example does S priority keep the ss in film mode as well or is it only related to photo mode?

DO NOT USE THIS INI FILE:

@Driftwood yes, it works. FHD50i GOP3 with playback on camera. The first Frame is IPB and all other Frames IB (StreamParser). Thank you.

Guys can you try out Cluster Slipstream over on the Cluster X series thread and let me know if the GF2 works with it. Thanks.