An EZ Guide to Hacking the Panasonic GH2 Sam Mallery. Heres a common conundrum someone wants to hack their Panasonic GH2, but they cant find a guide with easy to understand instructions. I was in this boat the first couple of times I hacked my GH2, so I decided to create this guide and share it with you. Hacking your camera is scary, because you can potentially damage it if you do it wrong. But, its highly unlikely that youll screw it up. Currently a Transcend 32GB SDHC Class 10 card will. GB now. 3 Their 16GB works great with my GH2 and Canis Majoris Night hack at. Kaes 65Mbps 3GOP setting Smooth Film Mode 130th sec Olympus 12mm F2. F2. 0 Variable ND Class 10 SDHC card 2,351 Crop 3Way Colour Correction Music. When the camera is actively updating its firmware, you just have to be careful not to touch it. This danger zone only lasts a couple of minutes. The Panasonic Lumix DMCGH2 is a digital camera with HD. Recording is to a SDHC or SDXC flash memory card in AVCHD. How to hack the Panasonic GH2 Updated. Which SD card for GH2 hack on my GH2, which I need SD card for it at least u003cbr u003e Currently I have a Panasonic SDHC Memory Card Class 10 Gold. SDHC cards SD card. If you have a Class 10 card, does it work with 100 mbps hack. From what Ive been led to believe its not actually supported on the GH1GH2. To unhack a gh2 you hack the. I would get a Sandisk SD card. IMO. I think at this point it comes down to flavor preference of 5d, 7d, or GH2 hacked. You must not press any buttons or turn off the camera while the firmware is being loaded. This scariness isnt exclusive to the hack. The same danger exists when youre updating firmware from Panasonic themselves. Keeping your GH2 safe is drop dead simple. This entire process is odd at first, but once you do it a couple times, it seems really basic. Its kind of like using Paypal. The first time you try to use Paypal, its a hassle. You have to get used to an unfamiliar user interface, you have to enter in a bunch of information, and so on. But once youre set up and make a few transactions, everything flows along nicely. While were on the topic, please use Paypal to donate a little money over at personal view. It helps support the folks that made the hack. I did my best to write the following instructions as clearly and comprehensively as possible. However, Im not a technological maniac. Panasonic-SD-rugged-OSGFilms.jpg' alt='How To Open Sdhc Card' title='How To Open Sdhc Card' />I dont get into making custom patches, I just use patches that I downloaded I explain how to do this later in the article. And even though I tried to be as comprehensive as possible, I may be missing a tiny bit of information here and there. If you notice something that needs to be added or corrected, please leave a Comment below and tell me about it, and Ill amend the instructions. Lastly, I dont want to intimidate you, but, be warned that you are voiding the warranty on your camera by preforming this hack. You should also be aware that you can revert back to the original firmware, if you dont like the hack. To do this, check out my post entitled How to Unhack the GH2. Dont be a wimp You can do thisLets go1 You need to download a program called ptool to your computer. Heres the link to where you download ptool http www. PTool. Software as you can see from glancing at that page, this is where things get a little confusing didnt take long, did it. On that page, scroll down to the red text that says Firmware manipulation tool the latest ptool is available at the http www. Breeze Dslr Remote Pro Crack. Yes, I know the link says gh. GH2 as well. The ptool will arrive as a zip file. Click on it to unzip it. Keep going youre on the right page2 If youre on a Mac, youll need to download and install a free application called Wine. Bottler. Its available here http winebottler. Once its installed, you dont have to fuss with this program at all. Panasonic-lumix-DMC-GH2K.jpg' alt='How To Access Sd Card Windows 10' title='How To Access Sd Card Windows 10' />It just runs in the background and lets you run exe programs like ptool. Heres a direct link to the download page http bit. Sdhc Memory Card Not ReadingA0. EJT3 Download the original firmware for the GH2 onto your computer. Heres a link to a page on personal view. Item4  it will arrive as a zip file as well. Click on it to unzip it. When unzipped, the firmware will appear as GH2V1. Create a new folder on your computer and put all of this stuff inside of it. Pack Skins Virtual Dj 7 here. Name your new folder GH2 Hack or something obvious like that. Put it in a obvious place, like on your desktop. Put the original GH2 firmware GH2V1. Once youve unzipped these downloads, you dont have to hang onto the. Toss those out. 5 Download the hacked firmware patch of your choice, and put it in your hack folder. Heres a link to a page on personal view. In order to download these patches, you need to register as a user at personal view. Once youve done that, click on one of the icons of the piece of paper with a folded corner. This makes a patch download, and it too will arrive as a. When you unzip it, it will have a completely different name. The unzipped name will be something like setc. Launch ptool on your computer, if youre on a Mac, Wine will launch and present you with this dialog box All you have to do is click the Go button. Thats the only thing you have to do with Wine. Bottler. 7 Now you have to load the original firmware for the GH2 into ptool. Click on the blue Load Firmware button at the bottom left of the ptool interface, and navigate to the folder where you placed the original firmware that you downloaded, remember, the name is GH2V1. Open. 8 If the Version increment box in ptool isnt checked, click on it and check it. The bottom of the ptool interface has a row of round buttons with letters inside of them. The letters are alphabetical, from A to J. The buttons that are green represent the patches that you downloaded, unzipped, and placed inside of your GH2 Hack folder. If you hover your cursor over the green buttons, a box will appear telling you which hack patch it is. You need to load one of these patches into ptool. Click on the green button of the patch you want to use. Once you have clicked, the patchs settings will be loaded into ptool. Be warned the interface of the ptool will not change after you click on the patch that you want to load. There is no visual feedback that the patch is loaded. Just click, be confident that you clicked, and move on. Now you have to export this hacked firmware patch out of ptool. Click on the green button in the bottom right corner of ptool that says Save Firmware. A window will open titled Save Firmware Image. Type in what youre going to name the hacked firmware, but dont get creative and clever with the name. See the next step1. Its important to name the firmware something specific, yet not identical to another file in your hack folder. The orignal firmware is named GH2V1. What I do is just incrementally name the new firmware one digit higher. The first hack I used cbrandins 6. I named GH2V1. 1. The second hack I used I named GH2V1. The double underscore is important, so make sure thats a part of your new name. Save the new firmware in your hack folder so you know where it is. Format a good SD card in your GH2. Make sure youre using a freshly recharged battery its really bad if the battery dies while the firmware is updating, you need to avoid this. Only use a battery, dont use the Lumix DMW AC8 AC adapter, because a power surge can interrupt the hack and screw up your camera. Some people say that its better to use a Panasonic Lumix lens when youre hacking. Other people say things go smoother when you put the camera in a custom mode when hacking the C1, C2 or C3 position on the right dial on top of the camera. I read this in other peoples instructions, so this is what I do too. After formatting your SD card in your GH2, turn off the camera and remove the card, and load it into your computer. You can use the built in SD card slot on a newer Mac or an external SD card reader, or you can connect the GH2 to your computer with the digital cable that came with the camera. Drag the new hack that you just saved out of your hack folder, and drop it onto the SD card icon on your desktop. The hack will land in there and just sit beside the other folders in your SD card you know those usual GH2 SD card folders DCIM, MISC, and PRIVATE. Heres what it should look like inside the SD card with the hack inside of it 1. Recommended SD card for 4. EOSHD. bdtr b any updates with the real world testing of your 4. Everything Im reading sounds pretty grim for this model. SDSDRX3 0. 32. G A2. These serial numbers are pretty much useless when trying to differentiate the cards. According to San. Disk support SDSRDX3, SDSDX3 and SDSDX all specify the Sandisk Extreme SDHC card, 0. G is the capacity obviously, and the last A3. A2. 1X4. 6 identify the different manufacturing sites. The same serial number is used even when the models are refreshed with different internals and different branding and ratings. The San. Disk website is full of mixed information and not updated properly. My understanding is that the newer cards are rated higher if used on a device with UHS 1 bus which our GH2s do not have. If you divide the new ratings by 13 you get closer to their true capability on a non UHS 1 device which coincidently match up to the old speed ratings. My guess, same chips, new ratings and stickers. Ignore all the Class 461. Extreme HD Video 3. Free Lord Your Holy Download Free'>Free Lord Your Holy Download Free. Extreme Pro 9. 5mbs. Ultra 1. 5mbs Extreme 4. Standard 1. 0mbs Ultra 3. So our two best options 1. Extreme or Extreme HD Video Class 1. Vanilla. 2. pay big bucks for the new Extreme Pro Class 1. Vanilla. Unfortunately, although there is pages and pages and pages of anecdotal reports on various forums, the information gets outdated so fast and San. Disk doesnt help matters with their crap naming scheme. So take this with a grain of salt and feel free to refute and correct my assertions.