@Vitaliy_Kiselev, I'm curious, from start to finish how long was the original GH13 project? That is to say, how long did it take you from the beginning to the end to hack the camera?

It is already clear that some things from GH2 research will find its way to GH1.

Thank you for the information, but I still didn't get an answer. I mean, there must be some sort of time frame associated with the point at which Vitaliy and others were like: "hmm, let's hack this thing." and then: "hmm, we hacked it let's share it with everyone." I understand it's been an on going process, isn't all software development and ongoing process? :-)

@stonebat with all due respect, I'm not interested in metaphors on how "opensource" works. Your answer is not in the least bit helpful. Trust me mate, I do understand how opensource works, probably better than most. Maybe you are misunderstanding my question, I'm not asking for an explicit end date on the development of the GH13 project, I realize that up to this point there isn't one, hence the reason this thread exists in the first place. But, I think we can both agree there was a definitive start date on the project. That may look different depending on who's perspective your taking note from which is why I asked Vitaliy when the project began, I want an answer from his perspective. Moreover, there must have been a time in which the first patched firmware was released thereby giving me my answer, a time time-frame of the first hack as it were.

:-)

@trevoralexander

Calm down.
I think that people try to say you that your question is really pointless.

> I'm quite calm.

Now you made this about yourself :-)
You also spend writing messages about 10x time required to get this answer via google :-)

I'm just grateful Vitaliy is working on it.

So today, my GH1 arrived via UPS, and I was ready with my PTool and hacked firmware, excited to shoot some amazing video. Charged up the battery, inserted my memory card, hit the play button, and.... nothing happened.

Only then did I realize Panasonic had screwed with this community's efforts, confirming the notion with some detailed Googling. With such a wealth of talk about the original GH13 hack, there was surprisingly little said about the updated GH1 bodies. I was totally let down until my search led me to this page.

I just wanted to say thanks for working on this, as it will be a big help to the guy who'd rather pay $400 than $900 on a new camera with decent video capabilities.

I was ready to return the GH1, but if you can assure me that this project is indeed moving forward toward successful results, I think I'd be wise to hold out. Have you received those cameras yet? And I WILL ask specifically about the current project, because after tons of camera research and a letdown purchase, I'm VERY eager: do you have an idea of how soon we can expect to see this camera opened up for us with the features from PTool?

Thanks again.

@trevoralexander

The guys are just playing with you. I don't understand your pushy attitude when it's obvious that no one really knows the answer to your rather specific question. It's not like anyone put this stuff on a calender. The beginning was rather benign and it was essentially a handful of people on a forum talking about the possibility of hacking. Once the first tests were done, hundreds of people burst onto the forum and it became insanely turbulent and nobody stopped to properly archive any of it for posterity. Anyway, the whole process is somewhat documented so I went over there, pulled up the GH camera section and hit "last" on the page selection button and then backtracked until I started to see some of the threads that started this all.

Somewhere around 5/09 and 6/09 seems to be where I see chatter about hacking. I believe that to be right since I bought my camera at the beginning of '09 and started doing hack testing around the beginning of '10.

I think that's the best answer you can get.

This time it's different though and although I think you are trying to estimate how long it will take based on how long it took last time, you can't compare the two directly as there are other things in the way, like firmware encryption and such.

V1.4 is encrypted. The idea behind dumping the IC directly is that it won't be encrypted and we'll have direct source material.

I do not know that you mean under v1.4 firmware.
v1.32 is last publically released firmware for GH1.