Here's an odd request that I don't know is possible, but would make a world of difference for what I shoot (and I'll be the first to call idiot on myself if it is already possible on this camera...)

Would it be possible to create the ability to continuously record and shed clips of a predetermined length and save only the clips you want saved using a sort of "tag" function?

One thing I want to see is lens profiles that you can make on computer and store on your card.
They must include all CA and distortion correction info (working for manual lenses).
Lens name, year of manufacturing, etc.
You must have ability to assign Fn as modifier to set used aperture that will be stored in stills and video meta.

"One thing I want to see is lens profiles that you can make on computer and store on your card."

This combined with anamorphic adapters would be golden. Panasonic could very easily ship a calibration card (say a black grid sheet) you take a photo of the card and then the camera could have the option for automatically processing CA and distortion and then save the lens profile on your SD card. I would have to believe this would be less work to implement than the fairly useless face tracking feature and would be an incredible asset for Pros.

Unfortunately they are too worried about disabling 3rd party batteries.

A way to disable the moving of the focus square when (accidentaly...) touching the screen would be very welcome.

@Mark_the_Harp Sorry, I just noticed your question. Not exactly, but likely uses similar technology...what happens is that you set a time frame for a clip, 2min, 3min, 5min, etc, and the camera will constantly record clips of this length until you press a "tag" button. If you press "tag" in the first half of the current clip, the camera will save the current clip and the prior clip. If you press in the second half of the current clip, it saves the current and next clip. Once a clip is not the current or prior clip, it vanishes :)

The POV cameras from VIOSport have this function and it is incredibly useful for recording things like fishing when nothing can happen for long stretches and action comes unexpectedly, but that action tends to be preceded with things you want to remember.

@Dom
Are you sure you're focused? Are you trying to manual focus? Is the focus hunting?

I just want an option to disable the whole fu... touchscreen. It sucks! I don´t want it. My GH1 don´t had it and I never missed anything. Now I often accidently touch the screen when filmen and something weird happens. For me it is witless.

Hi Vitaly! Thanks for your work!

I wish for working AE lock during video recording. It works currently "one-way" only (it's possible to turn it on before recording and switch off when recording), so it sounds like very possible improvement.

But full manual gain control would be much better, of course.

I want peaking!!!! Darn...

Vitaliy, I have a question about the issue with 3rd party batteries not showing their power level. Is it GH2's 'feature' that can be overriden with the upcoming hack or is it battery manufacturers' issue and nothing can be done about it? I hope it can be hacked somehow because original batteries are crazy overpriced and the cheap ones usually die in the middle of a take, which is not cool at all;) Thanks!

I've been lurking this forum for a while and am about to purchase a GH2 but they are too damn expensive here, plus I do not like the 30 minute limit on the PAL version. Is there currently no way to change the language of a Chinese or Japanese version to English until the hack arrives?

* Increased bitrate for 1080 24P (120 Mb/s ?), but if possible, increased bitrate for all Video modes (e.g. 720, 1080i ....).
* 1080 60P (We can dream, can't we?... LOL)
* HDMI The ability to correctly stream 24P over 60i for capture.
* Anything that can help improve signal-to-noise spec. (Although, this will of course be limited to hardware)
* More Zerbra settings e.g IRE 60, 65,70,75,80,85,90,95,100
* 720P improved with B frames.
* Ability to stream video at a higher bitrate to USB.

Firmware Request
Would there be a way to set ISO for videos outside of Creative Motion Picture Mode? For example, when the camera is in M/S/A/P and I press the video button, the camera instantly changes the ISO setting to AUTO.

Perhaps another way to enable this is to allow the exposure lock (AEL) to function for movies taken when the camera is in M/S/A/P mode. Again, when the camera is in M/S/A/P + AEL and I press the video button, the AEL is disengaged an the camera uses AUTO ISO.

The Creative Motion Picture Mode does not have this issue, but I'd rather not have to twiddle the dial back and forth between M/S/A/P and Creative Motion Picture Mode.

Firmware Request
Would there be a way to allow EX. TELE CONV. function outside of Manual Movie mode?

Firmware Request
1280x720@30p (AVCHD)