@mozes

I don't see it in yours at all. Maybe because of 720?

Also, I forgot to mention I did another test, this time in black and white:

@mozes - I wonder what effect your lens may be having as I can hardly see any lines on your recordings. Wonder whether the Panny len's show this up a lot more.

You got any you can use to re-do this test?

There is a lot in that stance @futur2. Defo one to work around. I really love using my GH2 - it produces stunning results and is a joy to use. Just annoying to be shooting in 1/50 all day then suddenly the line appears when it gets dark but there is still tons of street / car light etc. Changing to 1/25 is cool though. Just got to be sure to remember to do that. I suppose it's just that feeling that maybe a replacement might not show it up quite as much on my current unit..

Usually my luck.. lol :)

@futur2 But some perform a lot better. On my first one the line was consistent and almost black. The replacement has the line, but it's overall lighter and fades toward the center of the frame--much less noticeable. It's useful for people to have a reference to compare their camera to to decide if they want to keep it or if they want to play the sensor lottery and exchange it for another.

@mozes I don't see the line in yours. Not at all. All I see are the rolling bands caused by electric lighting. Are you sure you're shooting in 1080p (24P Cinema mode)? I don't think it's the lens, the band shows up just fine with the full manual nokton.

I started pixel peeping a lot. Sitting at home, causing this to happen. It frustrated me. Bugged the f**k out of me. I took a stroll (actually a bike ride) home from work yesterday. Magic hour, almost clear skies with some overcast, northern Europe (it was the last drops of light - violett and pinkish very nice). Took my cam out. Cranked it up to 1250 ISO, f3.5, stock lens - widest - did some recording. It looked beautiful (quantum 9b)! Some hints of the line at some times, but otherwise not noticible, and definitely managable in post.

So real shooting scenarios guys! ;)

@JamesAllenVisual - My cam exhibits the same as yours. I looked at your footage. It was cloudy and you pointed at the clouds. It seems to be most noticible in the mids. I don't mean it is OK, but you either take the fight or lay it to rest. Nothing wrong with persevering to ones cause though. ;)

I've even seen it in ISO 800... lowlight greyish sorry-ass-scene with barely no colors.. ;) 640 is good though.

My point? Don't have one really. Ha ha. Maybe it's just that we tend to get hung up on these things instead of being creative? Looking at a grey wall, a lens cap, or some smeared gray clouds might not be so interesting in your story telling after all?

But as a human you always think, what if I missed out, what if there were something better? What if the other guys got something better? And it starts to bug you and chews focus from more important things.... :D

(but really, that park-running-can't-remember-it's-name) you filmed was a little too much of that line I think. Return the cam! Nothing to lose really. MY cents

(and see what anglo-saxian culture did to me, very nice english skills LOL <------------------ impressed by my own capability - Thank someone for deciding not to dub movies in my country - always subs - unless childrens stories... :P some public free schooling also of course - rant rant rant)

Right, well returning the gh2 to Amazon. They are arranging a brand new replacement to be sent out straight away. Then I can test both - see if there is a difference. Will report back.

Just used the NINE -Updated patch.
and its there but only in 1/60.............
i am really confused now, i did try driftwoods AQ2 for Slow Motion Work in EX TELE mode patch. what have the same banding as the flow motion patch.
but SANITY v3.1 looks way diffent, i must do that one again, its for what i film, and to my personal teast for me the best one ...
and the nine patch, what i will try out some more.............

NINE -Updated patch

@JamesAllenVisual Good find, I'm glad that it worked out for you.

I also stumbled over the darker band issue, starting from ISO 1250. Shooting with shutter of 25 is a preferable workaround. Personally I do not see any difference in motion between 25 and 50 in Cinema mode nor with 50i. But I should see identical Top/Bottom Fields with shutter 25 in 50i mode, which I do not. Strange Sorry, if you see images, they have nothing to do with this post, but with: http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/2127/gh2-smearing-even-with-low-iso

@JamesAllenVisual

Glad it worked out for you. That's what my replacement from panasonic was as well (WE1JA), and it was much better than the WE1SA it replaced.

n=2, but I wonder if WE1JA is a good batch? I also noticed a similar thing with the lcd screen.

It'd be cool if you could do a quick test of the new one to compare to the video I posted earlier (film a white wall in low light, -3 exposure, 12800iso), to see how much variation there is among cameras from a given batch.

@mozes I see it now in your videos. It doesn't look too bad. What does your serial number start with?

Something new just happend.
i have uploaded the Driftwood Aquamotion ver2 AQ2 to the gh2.
and i just try what @shaun suggested. (film a white wall in low light, -3 exposure, 12800iso)
Well .......... every option (m.s.a.p) give some difference results.
But in M-Film mode, it sound some times if there is is something lose in the camera.
Some sort of fast rattle sound. it gos away if i change the shutter speed or the iso, its mostly there if there is a stronge lightsource next to the camera.
Its not there when the lightsource is behind me, or in front ???

i dont think the patch have anything to do with it...