@brettplank When I click the link to your video, Vimeo gives me a Permission Denied page with no way to enter a password?

I finally went out and put some effort into a test shoot. I wanted to see what this camera could do with bad, street-lit urbanscape. I didn't shoot with high ISO; I never went past 2000. (Download original .mp4 file for best quality.)

Password is: gh2

• GH2 w/ Flow Motion v2.02
• Canon EF Sigma 30mm f/1.4
• Canon FD 50mm f/1.4

I ran a test today with the FlowMotion patch. Some details in the shots exhibit quite a bit of noise at iso 640. I refer to the noise exhibited on the door in the background.

Did anyone else experience something similar with the patch? Should there be such noise at this iso? I didn't think ISO 640 was too high.

Noise is more apparent if I stop down the aperture.

These were shot using NOSTALGIC film mode, All -2. I wanted the final output to be black and white and I did some grading in Premiere, some noise was gone, but some still remained. Is that normal?

Thanks

I downloaded media inspector, files are only at 21mbps, dont think the hack is installed right. i fail at life! anyone got any pointers?

Thanks guys for all the comments. I suspect a couple of things could have gone wrong with my cam: could be an accumulation of lead deposits, as @dailhard, suggested, but I suspect it's something more insidious. Think poorly designed batteries do screw up the internal circuitry and perhaps I am paying for it.

@tinbeo, we are not condemning made in PRC goods here. As @peternap said, the well made ones are really good. But there are many of these ersatz, bad copies that are proliferating in the market, and unsuspecting users like me will get into trouble at some point.

I tried to steer clear of third party bats, but the originals are really too expensive. Maybe now I know why there is a price difference between cheap and original bats.

I used third party batteries made of China with the original one since I 'be bought gh2. I also use third party electric adapter sold cheap like $20 if I could remember and never had any problems neither showing warning messages.

It is faulty said the Flow Motion was in camera before it death as a cause . It is not a reasonable cause by using made in China batteries. what other made batteries should we use for a made in china camera any way? Please people; take a look of your bottom camera and see what it made from?

As I could say is don't buy made in China if you expect it good and last forever :-)

this is no doubt going to sound dumb. but how can i make sure the hack is working? loaded the new firmware on etc, how can i check the data rates of my MTS files?

@kazuo sorry to hear your troubles, but i believe patches have nothing to do with similar situations. It sounds more like a battery one. my understanding is that bad, poorly made with wrong parameters third party batteries can be a real issue-wrong power supply to a sensitive circuit. I did have this message before a few times. On and off cleared it. Yet I try to stay away from them whenever possible, I got a second original one and this covers quite a bit of time of shooting. Hope you get it sorted out and back to live.

My GH2 is dead!!! Left it on the rack after a shoot,then when it was time to turn it on again, the green light wouldn't come on. Tried it with all the batteries I had but the thing remains lifeless.

Before I send it off for resurrection, I have some questions. Was my camera hacked to death? Not insinuating anything here, but Flowmotion was the unfortunate patch last left on my cam.
@LPowell, pls comment, cheers

Also, anyone else can advise here, do third party bats screw up the internal circuit of the camera? Lately whenever i swapped china bats to original bats, I got the dreaded message "this battery cannot be used". I had to take out the original bat, and then put it back into the catch before the camera started behaving again. I spoke with a friend who is a Canon 5D user, and he told me he experienced similar incidents with third party bats. Anyone cares to comment? Cheers

@mastroiani You're off by a digit. Try downloading Flow Motion v2.02 from the first post in this thread. That's the most current version.

The only thing you're doing wrong is focusing on bitrate rather than motion picture quality. Leave the bitrate to the patch, the rest is up to you.

Hello, could please anyone help me? I just updated my camera with FM v.2.01. The whole process went as it was supposed to. Then I formatted my SDHC card and recorded roughly 8 minutes of 24H footage. But the resulting file is quite small: 1.35gb. Then I checked the bitrate while playing the file and saw that it's only 22Mbit/s. Am I doing something wrong? I thought the bit rate was supposed to be much higher? Which step did I mess up? Thanks a lot.

@peternap 45 minutes is a long take, which video mode did you use? If possible, could you load the SD card back into the GH2 and use the Playback menu to divide it into segments? That would preserve the original AVCHD encoding within a series of shorter MTS files. I'd be most interested in the initial minute of footage, and in the section that shows the sun dipping below the horizon and its immediate aftermath.