GH-2: Headphone connector or transmitting audio via HDMI

[guenterlukas]

Bad enough that the GH-2 doesn' t have a headphone connector. Now I bought the Sony CV-55 display for focussing. It has a headphonejacket. If the GH-2 would send the audio signal through HDMI, I could control the audio. Why doesn't she? Is it possible to change that with a hack?

[Andrew Reid]

She sends audio via HDMI in playback mode but not, sadly, live. The next generation of DSLRs including the D4 have better audio monitoring and send an audio signal via the latest HDMI spec during recording.

GH3 should be improved in this area.

Anyway - entering playback mode and checking audio levels on a few test shots is not that hard. Want better audio monitoring? For the lazy there is always the option to throw $6000 at the problem until it turns into an FS100  :P I always keep in mind that what we get for our $600 with the GH2 is pretty amazing.