LUMIX GH5 Firmware Update V.2 ANNOUNCED! — Improved GH5 Autofocus!!
Photo Moment - August 30, 2017
We've been waiting for this firmware update all summer… the official announcement is below; tune in here for a live analysis of what this means!
Read the complete press release on my blog at http://photojoseph.com/blog/lumix-gh5-firmware-20-update — but here are the headlines:
1. 3:32 - Compatibility with “LUMIX Tether” PC software
2. 6:58 - Improved auto focus performance
3. 12:53 - Improved performance in [6K PHOTO] and [4K PHOTO]
4. 15:54 - An additional ALL-Intra Video Recording mode
5. 19:31 - 4K HDR video recording
6. 24:36 - Enhancement of the Anamorphic video recording mode
7. 29:16 - Enhancement of Body I.S. (Image Stabilizer)
8. 34:05 - Correction of white balance setting
9. 34:38 - Improved usability of Time Lapse Shot
10. 35:04 - Improved usability of Power Save LVF
11. 36:22 - Wireless functions
12. 38:34 - Other improvements
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I really, really wanted for this to be a great tool for helping nail focus in stills, or for being able to use a tablet as a monitor for focus pulling. Instead, it seems a very poor conversion of the image app - resolution and all - to the desktop and adapted to run over USB. Truly pitiful.
When you do your inevitable video covering the release, I really hope that you expose this abomination for what it is, and don't simply brush the thing under the nearest carpet.
Even limited to just 1080p I resent the cost I had to spend on the device, and if you want 4K the situation gets a whole lot more surreal - where the MOST economical way is to drop a mere £400 on the Inogeni 4K HDMI-USB 3.0 converter... a figure that represents 1/4 the price of the camera, for functionality that the camera could very easily offer internally given the hardware available. This is money I would far rather be spending on lenses, a fact which I hope Panasonic are noting
What I fail to understand is how anyone can just quietly accept this state of affairs when the camera already has:
1) the ability to generate an h.264 stream
2) the ability to write data over a sufficiently fast USB connection
It's a software problem, and a trivial one at that! I have a decade-old Fuji bridge camera worth a fraction of the GH5, and that detects as a webcam.
Or if you prefer a comparative example to a different manufacturer failing to adopt a standard that has been out for 14 years and everyone else knows is clearly superior - this is arguably even worse than Canon continuing to use the all-intra MJPEG format for encoding video.
As a tool of any value on a video camera then, I still brand it abysmal. The "barely laggy" delay is still an order of magnitude slower than you yourself found unacceptable for audio self-monitoring over HDMI. The live preview is the exact same glorious 640x480p resolution as shown in the image app, with the exact same compression artefacts. The UI might be styled differently, but the functionality and quality of the live preview is directly equivalent. I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn that tethering and the wifi app are handled almost identically in-camera, which is frankly disgusting given the bandwidth available over USB.
I tested shooting RAW files and the transfer was less than two seconds. And I'm on an older MacBook Pro without USB C. I would logically imagine that on a USB C equipped Mac, this would be even faster.
The preview display is barely laggy. I haven't done a side by side but it seems as responsive as using Capture One and a Canon camera.
Resolution could be higher, but it's certainly enough to compose and even click on the screen to define a focus point. I haven't dug into punching into the image for critical manual focus (I'm in an airport trying this for the first time) so I can't comment on that yet.
This is most certainly not aport from the Image App and I don't know what makes you say that. The interfaces are nothing alike.
I'll do a critical look at this on the channel next week, but this is certainly no abomination.
And in fact, the ONLY problem I had setting this up was in Lightroom. It took me setting up Lightroom twice before it'd actually start importing photos from the watched folder — regardless where those photos came from. 100% not a Panasonic issue. But once Lightroom started to behave, it worked great. Lightroom feels slow… took about 4 seconds to import the photo, but again that is out of Panasonic's hands.
I have a question related to GH5 and Final Cut Pro X. Can you edit GH5 10bit 422 files on Final cut Pro X?
Thank you
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That said... The announcement could also be interpreted as stating that some form of "live view" will be available.
So maybe not so very promising on the surface, but reading between the lines offers a lot of potential wiggle room here.
What I'd really like to see here is functionality equivalent to the inogeni 4K -> usb3 converter, just without the added cost and frustration of needing to stick another piece of hardware in the chain... I'm quite sure that the camera's hardware is capable of this.
Is it possible if you could find out if they could add a couple of small feature? First, let you see on the screen what ISO the camera is using in Auto ISO mode like you can see when you choose the ISO, and second let us see real time exposure on the exposure meter when recording in 4K/6K photo as it just shows this fine until you press record and then the exposure meter stays at 0.
Your style of shooting demands a limited AF area to be used. Tracking AF mode works great too (if the subject does not leave the frame). To be honest, I think that 225 point AF mode (the default one) is great for photo mode, but is not suitable for video.
I finally can connect my Mac to G85, a bit sneaky but finally done. :DDDDDD
ftp://ftp.panasonic.com/camera/howto/g_series_cameras_how_to_send_images_stored_in_the_camera_mac_howto.html
ps. the site is super sloooooooooow.
It's working like real-time data send/back up kind of connection via Wifi AP. I'm new to tethering but at least this kind of work flow could cut of some risk of data loss during session shoot. Also I'm finding the way to use the folder with Capture One (because i'm a newbie at tethering).
I've found 2 way to do it is
1) via Direct Wifi
2) via Wifi AP.
I chose to connect through AP because I assume that connect to other network is battery safer than use the camera itself as a hotspot.
And with the AP always on so I won't accidentally interfere the network and move further than using on camera wifi module.
Just make sure the username/password asked from the camera to log on to computer is your NetBIOS name and your password. (not computer username)
to look for your Net BIOS
System Preferences > Networks > Wifi > Advanced > WINS
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