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Driftwood Cluster X Series 4:│Moon T8│Spizz T7
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  • @Gardner

    This shot with Moon T8?

  • Here's the official trailer for my feature film set to release early next year!

  • hi, I want to share my latest work. I am shooting a Kite Festival at Belitung Island, Indonesia. I am using GH2 with Spizz T7 hack. Using a "Natural 0,0,0,0" Hope you enjoy it

  • Both T7 & T8 are stable with 720P 50fps. 60P is 20% extra work and this may explain the problem users are having. 1920x1080 25P has the same number of pixels as 1280x720P, so no extra work for the processor and the buffers to the card. Maybe this is why it works for me in PAL land.

    Have also found the SanDisk micro 32GB Ultra work reliably with T7 & T8, whilst the full size 32Gb fall over. After changing the 'hack' always reformat in camera.

  • Spizz T7@HBR 25p. Vintage m42 lenses. Sandisk 64GB/95MB/s. Smooth -2; -2; -2; -2

  • Yes, that's normal. The camera splits them, even on exFAT.

    The PS3 doesn't like exFAT.

  • I just scored myself a SD 64GB/95mbs from Am*zon, it works great. I did format it in camera and looks like it's exFAT which I found out it's the latest vesrsion of FAT32. Now the problem I got is, after I spanned almost one hour to see how it coping with Moon T8, the video is split in blocks of 4GB, is that normal?

    Thanks for your input.

    P.S. My PS3, doesn't recognize this SD card at all.

  • Shot whole day yesterday, everything works great with moonT7. Before i bought the camera i spent like a month reading the forum, browsing videos and tutorials, but i missed the part with 1.1 firmware. Tho i'm not inexperienced with video, it's my first time with GH2.

    Russel's video is simple and great, took me 3min to hack the camera, but unfortunately he didn't provide links he should, i sent him a message, hope he'll respond and update. And 1.1 firmware was around when he made the video.

    I actually used this ptool from video, and everything works fine, so i'll keep it until next project, since it's stable. ...for now...

    Great community, helpful people, thanks guy!!!

  • @kingkorg

    Format the card only one way, in camera.

    If you still have issues after that, I'd say you got a bad card. That thing is a beast and is normally the ONLY card that can work flawlessly with these 'big boy' patches.

  • @kingkorg Ay mate didn't think you'd miss that basic step as you already found your way to a driftwood thread and got yourself a sandisk 95/64.. let us know how stability works out further down the road. While we're on the subject also make sure to use the latest ptool (3.66), not the version in the video ;)

  • Damn, i'm an idiot, it works with 1.1 stock firmware, and i've been watching this stupid video which has links to 1.0 stock firmware!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?index=1&list=PL-3mr0QREVv0sVaY6nnb0xSQjjbjliTEP&v=5yGf1fvjbdA&src_vid=AHBjA__vxKg&feature=iv&annotation_id=annotation_1100639699

    I was ready to buy another card!

  • Now, i took the lens off , tried to record without it, it jammed, but after restart it started working like a charm, with iA, auto focus, NR, everything. Does it have something to do with stock firmware i am using from Panasonic, it's V10?

    And now after 10 minutes it jams again.

  • Damn, it crashes on 60p even with Flowmotion 2.02. I really don't get this.

  • @kingkorg

    No problem, 60p i never really use too, but also not something which Moon T7 is specifically made for i believe, as another tip, try to see if you can start using good manual lenses instead of m43 autofocus lenses, they don't really make sense from a focussing standpoint and need a lot of in-cam processing to sort out distortion and other lens shortcomings which take up resources that are most-def also needed for stable high-bitrate or strong compression.

  • Did try SDformater, moonT7 works now for both 24fps and 30fps, i guess i'll have to find other suitable setting for 60p.

    Thanks for help! :D

  • I'm using Panasonic 14mm 2.5. Tried without iA, same results. I can say tho, that Moon T7 at 24 is the only mode that worked. I'll try SDformater right away!

  • @ kingkorg

    did you format using sdformatter ?

    More importantly, i would advise against using iA at all times, also T7 is more a patch to optimized at the 24p level its not the best patch for 720p as far as im aware of it.. (i only record at 1080p 24 or 25 with this patch)

    May i ask what lenses you are using ?

  • Hello folks, i am new here. Just bought GH2, and Sandisk Extreme Pro 64Gb 95mb/s, but i seem to have problem with almost every setting. Tried moon t7 it stops recording immediately in any 720p mode, have to take the battery out, tho it works great in 24p modes, but not in iA. Tried Moon T8, stops in every mode after few seconds, tried DREWnet latest edition, freezes in 720p. Tried to format card in every possible way, didn't help.

    I'm really getting frustrated, don't get what could be wrong. I know i could try with some low bit rate settings, but come on, did i buy 95mb/s card to settle with that? :D

    DREWnet has considerably lower bitrate than moonT7, it should work as a charm.

    I did read almost every post in cluster X series, tried everything, changing ISO values, turned off additional functions...

    Thanx in advance for any suggestion.

  • I did download Jim_Simons T7 - T8 comparison footage posted on page 6 but I think it is not very helpful. The changing light over time and no 100% identical framing mace judgement impossible to my eye. I think the best way for comparisons is using manual lenses, freeze/nail focus and tripod, do your first shot with firmware 1, flash the camera as quick as with firmware 2, do the second shot and so on and so forth. I did some comparison with earlier hacks only during cloudy days so changes in light are not as quick as in direct sunlight... All the best, Frame

  • @DerekTseng Real nice. Can you tell me a little about your settings and post?

  • @x_worpig_x

    How do you find GH4 perform as a B camera? :)

  • @x_worpig_x - nice shots. I'm finding these two cams cut together much better than my previous GH2 / GH3 combo. The CU shot is noticeably cooler here (probably due to the auto WB), but easily correctable in post.

  • GH4 with 24mm Canon FD 1.8 (first photo) GH2 Moon T8, 100mm Canon FD 2.8 (second photo). Ungraded.White balance was set to auto.

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  • Shot on hacked GH2 with Moon T8 Lenses: Panasonic 15mm/f1.7

  • Moon T8 expand perfect with cheap SD cards, I use "Komputerbay 64GB 10 600X UHS-I" (price $25 in Amazon). The secret is to use "SDFormatter" and format in "FULL OverWrite" and "Format Size Adjust: OFF", it takes a while to format the card like 45 minutes. Then put the card in your camera an format there. Thats it!!!! Enjoy more than a 25 minutes (never stops but was my longer shot) continusly of expand and playback every time on camera of the great MOON T8!!!!!! The secret i think, is to have a good speed SD card and format in your PC with the free SDFormatter. I hope this help. Thanks for all Mr. Driftwood! Moon T8 Rules!