My hat tips to Vitaliy and Chris. They can't do it without passion. I envy their passion. Also hat tips to the testers. Testing is a lot of work. Added benefit of testing is that one can learn more about camera.

@VK

nice suggestion - but I think I can borrow back the GH1 I sold. It went to a friend of mine, and he said I could use it.

Now a nice big set of Zeiss compact primes - that would be nice. My Contax Zeiss primes just don't look quite as cool:)

Chris

Testing with that lens would be great. It would pretty much eliminate the lens as the limiting factor.

Actually, I'm pretty much set with lenses. I appreciate the kind words and such. I do this because it's fun for me. Like Vitaliy said in an interview once - it beats playing video games.

Chris

@cbrandin

It is funny because my son started developing iPhone apps this week at age 7 because he was sick of needing to pay for the games he wanted. He decided that if he just made his own games he wouldn’t have to pay for them anymore and perhaps he could even earn some money in the process.

I guess that is kind of like you guys. If you see a need you go out and fix it and don’t wait around for someone else to do it for you. I think I am safe in saying that we ALL thank you for that.

@mpgxsvcd Thanks for starting this thread, the work that Vitaliy and Chris have put into PTool for the GH2 is indeed a major advance over the relatively limited range of improvements that were possible on the GH1. As Chris has explained in recent posts, the AVCHD encoder uses intricate prediction strategies to divide its available bitrate between image details and motion tracking. It must have been quite a daunting task to track down the undocumented code that manages these processes, and then devise custom high level patches to provide reliable user-adjustable controls.

The downside of these enhancements, however, is that optimization of the more subtle qualities of AVCHD encoding demands far more disciplined testing and evaluation than the relatively straightforward reliability tests that high-bitrate GH1 patches required. But this happens to be one of my favorite briar patches, and I encourage anyone else who enjoys this kind of work to wade right in. The GH2 already shows much deeper potential than the GH1 could offer, and it no doubt possesses unanticipated capabilities yet to be discovered.

+1 on the thread!
I deeply appreciate all the hard work that is being done by Vitaliy/Chris/Strike Teams and the community. Thank you everyone for your contribution and hard work.

I'm sort of new here and sometimes feel a little nervous if I post to the wrong thread, Vitaliy :) this is a easy-one
THANK YOU VK, Chris and all the guys in this community.
Quiet an amazing group.

I have 3 GH2's and actually don't have plans to hack my cams, although I'm wavering, I'm here because V has created the best video forum on the web. It's also a good place for financial info.
So thanks to V and Chris and the rest of the gang for creating such a great source for information and fun.

Big Thanks! I just Donated another $20 ..I felt I got a great deal on 24mm f2 Vivitar today (paid $20),so the least I could do is send some of that savings your way VK, thank you

thanks guys, I was bragging about your amazing hacking skills with the GH2 to my friends today.

+1 :)

http://www.ephotozine.com/article/panasonic-announce-two-new-power-zooms-17214
Read at the interview part concerning they r aware of the GH2 hack.
They should thank Vitaliy and the team for making their product so popular~~ oso they oso mentioned about next firmware that "may" be released to add 25p support n other improvements.