Nested Doors and Windows. Mineral de Pozos, Mexico. January, 2011Panasonic GH2 with 14-140mm @ ISO 500Regular readers will have noticed that since late December '10 I have been living and working in Mexico, and shooting exclusively with the Panasonic GH2. When I came down to San Miguel in mid-December I knew that I was limited in the kind of equipment that I could bring with me. I intended to shoot documentary stills as well as video, and knew that I would be doing a lot of walking and hiking. This meant bringing a light weight, low bulk, versatile system that could shoot both high quality stills and video during the four months that I would be living in Mexico.

Just days before I left to drive down to Mexico I was able to take delivery of a Panasonic GH2. I hadreviewed a pre-production samplein October, and had writtena follow-upabout its video capabilities and also about its1:1 ETC video modein December.

Now, about two months later, having shot some 3,000 frames of stills and...