If you're a hard-core camera geek, you are the type that is into hacking firmware to give the camera the features you wish the maker had given it from the factory. There have been some interesting hacks put forward for the Panasonic GH2 in the past and the latest that has surfaced makes the camera video high quality a lot, a great deal better.

Out of the box, the GH2 can record video in 24Mbit AVCHD format full HD resolution video. For a few of us that is plenty of quality, but others need more. This new hack has cranked the GH2 up a bunch of notches as well as lets the camera record 176Mbit AVCHD Intra video. That Intra tagged onto the back is a huge change.

AVCHD grabs only many of the frames from the sensor to make the video. AVCHD Intra on the other hand will grab every frame from the sensor creating video look better when played back. You can see a video under from a user going by Driftwood that was shot using the GH2 in 176Mbit AVCHD Intra and see what we think. How exactly you apply this hack isn’t mentioned in the video.


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