Fantastic stuff guys, thanks to much!

I was wondering if there is any way to reduce the noise in low ISO (160) , Im playing with the latest Quantum, but I just keep getting noise even at 160.

Is that normal or maybe Im doing something wrong?

@balazer - "We are talking about something that was never expected to work."

Really? Speaking only for myself, that sounds like something I'd be highly interested in hearing about. Anything else you'd prefer we not discuss?

First sorry I have little knowledge of these hacks. My question, is it possible to combine the quantum100 24L (50mbs) with the 24H quantumV9b (150mbs) onto one patch? Thanks

Quantum100 L setting spans wonderfully on my Sandisk Extreme 32gb Class 10

Tried the same kind of test on my Lexar Professional 32gb Class 10 and it failed to span. It would fail to span with Aquamotion v2 too so that might be expected. From what I understand, the Lexars write faster than similar Transcend class 10 cards so I wouldn't expect spanning to work with those cards either.

On the L setting, 4.29gb equaled 5:47 on the very different tests I ran so I would expect to be able to safely take 5-minute shots on cards that don't reliably span.

Ex-tele works well on both cards.

@JDN I use Aquamotion V2 on interviews and reliability wise this looks equal or better for me. I would go ahead and use it. I plan to use it Wednesday for an entire day's worth of interviews.

@sohus

Seaquake, Quantum's with AQ4 all work great on my Transcend 32gb class 10.. what colour is the sticker on yours? Mine has got the rainbow pattern, came from ebay Taiwan (from the same seller that I got my GH2 from) tested to full capacity (wasn't looking for the cheapest card I could find, but a 32gb class 10 that would get here fast, and that would be express shipping in the same package as the GH2 :))

@sanzadez

Haven't tried Q9b, but Q7 with AQ4 runs great on my transcend class 10 on H, doesn't span. But stable for the entire 4GB worth, no matter the scene and dof (haven't tried any death chart, but have not had a single problem on any of them in any high detail complex real world situation with wide dof, a nd Q7 is lower bitrate than Seaquake which worked like that too).

driftwood, I do find blackspot's 720SH vs 720H post above interesting. The macroblocking does appear horrible (look at the detail loss just below the cup) Even if he mixed up which was H verse SH, I was surprised by the large blocks.

BTW: The big thing left to fully work out is the 'Frame Buffer Size' patches in ptools. If anyone is prepared to alter all up and down by small percentages at a time to see how it effects the settings - just testing those on Quantum - please pm me.

Nick, If we can't have both at best quality, which I believe this is the case, my vote goes for the best 720 60P!

Having said that, you could always throw out a poll, but man we need 60P for slomo!

@driftwood et al Panasonic lenses have a very high resolution and wide angel lenses also cause more problems for the codec. Furthermore, those lenses have IS and AF that burden the processors that also process the image data into AVCHD files. I think the most important things is that these things are documented so we can all make our own decisions. People with manual lenses generally have less problems. I also think the final Quantum should have a 720p and a 1080i branch. Most people never use 1080i while @proaudio4 is right, 720p60 is great for slomo!

About quantum 9b, 720p 60 with both 95mb 64gb sandisk and 30mb sec sandisk.

from my tests with 14-140 and 20mm lumix, Af and ois are not factors in the write fails. With them off, they both still fail it just takes a couple of seconds longer. Even with the camera motionless and no focusing or zooming they fail. Always within about 4- 20 seconds.

I have an ancient 50mm minolta and I can focus and refocus all day with that and it never fails. Same with voight.

If I was to guess it has to do with the increased communication between a lumix lens and the camera. Even if af and ois are off, there's probably still more info flying back and forth during the card write process.

@ehr, I agree too, but let's let our poor man driftwood perfect the 24h (whilst he's tinkering with 720 / 1080i as he can) and then I'm sure we'll get our branched -- I think @sage has already created a branch with quantum 7 and I'm sure he'll do so with 9 as well -- actually doing some twixtor tests with his patch tuesday so I'll let you know how it goes.

I was about to point that digital lenses might just be sharper and so put more pressure on the codec, but RRRR has made a giant point. The interesting part is that it's putting legacy glass to advantage. :O

And now I wonder how long before people start asking for an hack to shutdown image correction. :)