Gadgetory

excellent what's up guys and welcome to a sort of random Paul Sartre video what you were supposed to be seeing today was my April build I was going to put it together I was actually going to do it lies but when I was setting up up here to do a live stream this morning I came across a big problem which is basically one of my to Panasonic Lumix gh4 cameras can no longer output via HDMI it's like such a small problem but also such a huge problem and basically it means I wasn't able to do that video today so instead I'm taking you guys along for the ride as I try to cope with this issue and hopefully get a replacement lined up I'm like actually somewhat proud of the configuration that I have set up out here in my garage to do things like live streaming computer build especially to do that all like by myself because that's usually all I have is me when I'm filming something or whatever so this camera I will have connected with a AC adapter so that the battery can't yell out and then also an HDMI connector which is this little adapter if they're the plugs in right over there and then long bits of cable which typically goes like up and over in this this big messy area up here and then runs down over to my actual streaming system which is over there in the corner which actually does a really good job and have a couple capture cards set up for that one external raised one right here as well it was an internal one and those capture via 1080 and they allow me to get a little old configuration setup over here with like a keyboard so i can switch between scenes and everything and then my second camera i will you typically have mounted to that mounts right there pointing straight down so I can get a top-down view of what I'm doing and then the same kind of configuration I'll have a AC power brick coming from this line over there to keep everything powered and then another hdmi cable that gets traced over there and connected back up to the streaming system and then of course I've got my soundboard right there which also has an XLR that goes over so this will Mike hanging down can actually pick up my voices I'm talking and saying the things that I'm doing and it was all going to be great it was all going to be perfect as the build setup I got 340 you got my rise in five 1600 X right there ready to go in this is only going to be about a thousand dollar bill this was actually the last piece I was waiting for right here to the asus prime be 350 plus motherboard so i was excited because that arai actually arrived just this morning as I cool I can do this today and then and then I was plugging in this camera and basically it wasn't working whenever i plug in the gh4 the way that I know that it's actually outputting a signal is if the screen is on and then you plug in the hdmi the screen will turn off for a second and then come back on that's always my signal that like hey the camera is trying to output via that via to be a 1080p of hdmi port that's down here now the problem here is that it's a micro port micro HDMI which is not the best port it's just not that sturdy it's meant to be small small not necessarily sturdy so I'm not sure how well you guys can see this in there basically if you look at that Center bridge and the main thing in the middle of the plug there's gold contact leaves that come up they are on either side of that and on the top side from our perspective right here there are two of those leads that got kind of pushed back so that this is a dental pick I'm using to point this out but you can kind of see the two upper channels here and here where the lead isn't there anymore because it get pushed back into the plug and this was purely the result of me plugging in and I'm plugging this over at the time over the past couple of years that I've had this gh4 so basically I am now able to still use this camera for camera functions like taking pictures and taking video I mean there's nothing wrong with the lens or the or the sensor or anything like that there's nothing wrong with the SD card reader it's still perfectly functional as a camera however because of what I do and because it so often involves using the hdmi out on this camera to to do live streaming or that kind of thing I really need that to work so here's what I've decided first off thanks to all the people who gave me some suggestions on Twitter because that was the first thing i did when i discovered this of course was go on twitter and complain about it happening has lots of good suggestions some people were saying to get a lock port or one of these specialized adapters there's cages you can get they go ray I do have a cage that goes around the camera then ones that specifically go and hold on to the plugs here for your HDMI adapters just to keep them from what going around or moving in that kind of thing and while I've always been very careful with this port and plugging it in and keeping the plugs that go into it in mobile as much as I can and everything and definitely considering getting one of those adapters however to actually solve my problem I would either have to replace this camera or have it fixed I attempted briefly to fix it with that with that pic that you can see but honestly those leads are way too done in there basically what it would need to be done to repair this camera is disassembling it removing the actual hdmi plug whatever assembly that's that's part of whether or not it's soldered to a PCB in there i am not sure and then resolder incredibly a new plug down onto their that's fixed because I'm already very invested into this platform as far as a panasonic gh4 goes since i do have two of these cameras it's why about the second one was so i could do clean hdmi out on both of them but i do have like some some lenses i also have the EF mount adapter for the micro four-thirds mount so i can use my EF lenses that with this also have like spare batteries that fit in here and oh and the AC adapters as well so I pretty much narrowed down my choices to like I ruled out like getting a sony a7s or something like that I was considering it but I think I should stay with them what I have all of the kit for could get another gh4 you can get those four and the 912 hundred dollar range depending on where you're buying it from and if it's new and how shady they are they also have the g 85 which or I think two g84 is a JT for g85 I'm not sure they have one of those that one's kind of interesting but it actually doesn't have quite as good quality for the HTML and am still theoretically interested in capturing via the hdmi at a higher bit rates and a higher color depth so what I've decided is to just bite the bullet and grab myself a gh5 the successor to the gh4 released fairly recently benefits there I mean this is a default side-by-side comparison but the benefits are going to be it's got a full-size HDMI out over on the side on the gh5 that is so that's nice i'm probably i'm going to get one of those adapters for it to try to preserve that plug as long as possible it's also got a better sensor I do believe it is a bit higher megapixel quantity on this on the new sensor for the GH five it also doesn't have the 4k crop like the gh4 has whenever you switch to 4k mode it actually doesn't use the full sensor and it can also do some higher resolutions it can do like 4k 60fps and higher bit rates and stuff so all that stuff in there is enough to convince me that hey I'll give the GH five to try but after deciding that the next question was where am I going to get to GH five and it's really hard to find it sold out like everywhere it so that I knew I gets filled out on Amazon unless you want to wait like two weeks Richard ship sold that on B&H but I did find it at bestbuy so I was going to order Don best might have a shift but you know I found actually a local best but it has supposedly a couple of them in stock so let's do a road trip let's go to best buy for the first time in like over 10 years this quick update I'm driving now ready I have made it here there are actually lots of Best Buy's can near me but the only one I was able to find stock for the GH five this one which is in frickin norwalk good 45 minute drive and I'm going to go inside cameras look okay one more quick update i actually went to the wrong best site so i have made my purchase and i gave me this pink piece of paper and our seat and now i am I came from norwalk County where they actually have the genes that I'll get success okay the hummus and I'm back home and here it is the GH five retail box freshly purchased from best buy for a move on for today and start working on some of the other projects that I keep telling people I'm working on but still haven't finished I'm going to do a quick little unboxing of the new camera and you Jess at least a quick look this is not going to be anything official as far as like listing up all the sex and that kind of thing I do have a couple links that i'll post or at least one link i'll post in the video to a a more full-featured review of this camera as that's actually something that you're in if she somehow came to watch this video thinking it was going to be more about the gh4 and less about just me dealing with some production issues today but here's the instead of the box we have the shoulder strap which i will not be using most likely we have camera body which is in a little pouch and so i'll come back to that that's kind of the main event here we have oh good another power charger innovation i'm getting a look I get another battery i get another battery charger dock and another cable for that so it's kind of convenient also we have a USB cable here the GH five does have USB type-c and instead of just the crappy USB so they gave me an adapter kit for that that's just night the cool guy only I'm not really sure what this is looks like it mounts on there somewhere the hope is this a clot if this is like a clasp to hold in cables that would be pretty funny maybe I'm not the first one who has damaged my gh4 in such a way hey a new battery these are nice I do love the battery life on the gh4 hopeful ugh x is going to be similar because that's one of the really nice features about it especially especially if you're taking on the road or something like that finally the body itself and I did get the body only because that's all I really needed and this was two thousand dollars which is pretty much what you got paid for it retail right now since it is a new camera so here we got the Micro Four Thirds sensor in there although it does have a higher megapixel rating than the one that's on the gh4 the body itself is a little bit larger but that's can it you can kind of see that see see the grip is a little bit larger on this one and whatnot they did move the actual record button for keV recording video up here whereas on the gh4 it's back here other than that the layouts pretty much the same which is cool because I'm very very comfortable with accessing the controls on the gh4 like easily switching between focus modes which is pretty much in the same place right there oh they have a little a little jog controller right there a little joystick to navigate the menus that might be helpful the screen does still flip out they have improved the LCD screen it's got a its got a better pixels per inch count on their solo LED touchscreen they can sit more menu items on each one and then of course the gold selling feature for me right here look at that full-size full-size HDMI and USB type-c sweet full-size HDMI still not the most sturdiest connector but much more sturdy than the micro and since I'll hopefully have learned my lesson from this little experience I do plan to get one of the little mounts on there Scott's still has a separate input jack so you got separate connectors for Mike as well as headphones so you can have external audio recording directly to it obviously there are many other features to this numerous a very nice pretty high-end mirrorless micro four thirds camera and I'm looking forward to getting some use out of it so i'll hopefully come back at some point and give you guys a little bit more feedback as far as my experience with the GH five but for now i should be able to get back up and running and hopefully even set this up to do that build that i have been promising because i need to get that thing put together after wrap it up at this one no guys so if you did happen to enjoy it i know it's not the normal type of video that i usually do but go ahead and leave me a thumbs up or comments down in the comments section and i'll be back with more actual technology videos about computers and horizon and overclocking and all that good stuff very soon thanks again for watching and we'll see you next time