Long live Sanity 5.0! Nailed my shoot today. Huge kudos to Ralph for supplying this awesome hack, as well as others on this website! I'll try to post some footage if I can but I don't own it. Man it looks good.

New shot in HBR 25p with sanity 5, static - lens 12mm@f11 - 160 iso.
Can you guys please tell me what do you think of this quality ? thanks a lot !

Thanks for your answer Ralph and huge thanks again for your work !!! love it !
I thought we could have MUCH higher resolution on the faces....
The background is fine bit I have the feeling to see lots of macroblocks on the faces, the shoulders, the clothes....
would it be possible that we have compression issue here on this 22mb static shot ?
(I just imported the MTS in FCPX no transcoding - 1080 25p here)

Hello ! This time I post 3 png captures from After Effect with magnificatin 200% and 400% - the mts footage is 1080p and seperated fields is set to Off.
I hope this is the proper way to examine the mts.
What is your opinion about resolution here ? Thanks again !

I have have footage of 720p 60 , 24p hbr 30p 1080i. Does anybody know a good way to export the footage from fcp x. im seeing a lot of artifacts on 720p footage. I exported as 1080p. Should ive have exported as 720p, overall i like the original files much better. By the way i used sanity5 hack with canon 28mm fd.

Micro-test of Sanity 5 and TAMRON 80-210 CF Tele Macro handheld.

@darkdook

Really nice. I'm a low light shooter myself, and that's one of the things I designed Sanity to excell at.

Were you using auto-focus?

@darkdook

Here's a focus trick I've found helpful in situations like this:

In the Motion Picture menu, turn Continuous Autofocus OFF. Set the focus dial on the camera to AFS. Now, while you're shooting, gently push the main shutter button half-way down, and it will autofocus for you. Release the button and focus will stay at this new point. You can do this as many times as you want during a shot. You can sort of think of it as a manual autofocus.

@evero I second that. The video Autofocus is 100% better on my GF2's than on the 7D or MkII, but I could assign the focus to other buttons on them. It made life a lot simpler.

The half press on the GF2 is almost impossible for me to do without going too far.

That ""manual-autofocus"" technique works faster on an unhacked camera than a hacked one, possibly because of the load on the processor. YMMV.

Also the alternative to a half shutter press is to enable touch screen and tap the object you want to refocus on.

@mee

Obviously this protest was in response to the Fukushima disaster. What's going on in Japan these days? It's fallen off the radar in the world media.

@Ralph

More specifically this is one of several massive protests that have occurred in response to the first reopening of a plant since the disaster which happened about a month ago. The protest before this one had 200,000 people though the police claimed 75,000, and the media claimed 10,000. I found it very strange that the media went with a lower number than the police, but sky shots of that event showed the true number was staggering. The event in the video though likely a paltry 30,000 ;) was a huge deal because it at the street in front of Parliament and the Emperors house. My reporter friend that conducted interviews kept exclaiming he could not believe this was happening in the street in front of the emperors house, saying everyone in Japan would have believed this impossible. It's worth mentioning I could only see as far as the ends of this section of street, and that I saw roughly 30K people here, but it is possible there where many more on the side streets near the castle. I even saw people in the bushes off the sidewalks later in video shots. Also worth mentioning, the 200K protest was at one of the largest parks in central Tokyo. Lastly on the Protest, the police were actually very polite, other than a few isolated arrests it was largely peaceful.

So as for the rest of the story, Japan bought into the government BS for awhile, but after seeing countless scientific surveys of fish, meat, veggie, and dairy products as well as soil samples, and hearing from the clearly more educated and forth comming scientists they have almost all come around to the reality of what happened last March. Where before nearly everyones reaction to my warnings of eating certain foods was "Don't worry, it's safe now", now nearly everyone says something to the extent of "yes it's very bad" and then they usually make a remark about the government and electric company (TEPCO) being dishonest, and only caring about money and not the Japanese people. A complete 180 from when I arrived 10 days after the earthquake and Tsunami. It's pretty much impossible to find someone that doesn't want a clean energy future, in fact the only person that exclaimed to me that nuclear is needed in th last 3 months was a British man. The arguement for nuclear is that Japan has had to increase coal and oil burning at the cost of importing it, but the Japanese people have become keenly aware of very factual numbers for wind and solar generation vs nuclear and fossil, and see the untapped potential of waves and geothermal as well. It always amazing me though when old and young people alike spout out the exact kilowatts that X ammount of solar or X ammount of wind turbines can produce. I can't remember these numbers, but they clearly have them locked in now.

Hope that wasn't overkill of info ;) But it is very exciting watching this nation that just a year ago believed every word of their government, waking up so quickly in unity. I kinda think Japan is going to be showing the world how to do things right.