@vicharris is right, guys: impatient asking cost Vitaliy just additional time to answer, while most of those questions are obsolete. Just check periodically the first post in this topic, as Vitaliy will instantly post the news here and edit his first post.

To successfully hack an firmware is effort of many, many hours of dirty and boring work. I could bet that Vitaliy has his full-time job and family besides, all those things demand lots of time as well.

Hack projects is Vitaliy's big passion, but he is now working on hack for many cameras simultaneously: not only on YOUR camera. Hacking is his passion, I am sure he won't stop :-)

Respect his hard working, be grateful when his new hack result matches your camera model and support his work that's best you can contribute for your hack to come sooner:
donate, or try to involve in the hacking projects someone of your friends as developer, in the case you know someone who is extremely skillful person willing to spend many hours of his time for this matter.

@Kairutan

No, thanks all is ok, no need for anything.

@tetakpatak
@eatstoomuchjam

No need to defend me. As if I talked about manual modes it was much better if I did them long time ago. Sadly it is more difficult to find free time chunks than I thought.

Good to see there is some development on the GH3. I really hope there is a parameter in there somewhere that controls the onscreen info disappearing after 10 seconds. If this could be extended to infinity(like ALL cameras I have EVER used) it would be great! This "feature" is totally meaningless and driving me nuts!

Good luck on your continued work, you know it is appreciated!

@jakepowell If this is the case, then OLED is a step backwards in my opinion. And I think I would rather risk a little burn-in on the info areas than not having full control of what I'm doing like now.

Yes, I know, was posted on GH3 topic quite a time ago.

Thanks

1."Low Light AF" is added that makes it possible to set focus on the subject in low-lit situations (-3EV).

2."Silent Mode" is added which suppresses electronic shutter, shutter sound, operation sound and flash emission with a single setting.

3."Exposure Comp. Reset" is added which resets the setting of exposure compensation to ±0 whenever the camera is turned off or the shooting mode is changed.

4.Performance of AF is enhanced in use with H-PS14042 and H-PS45175.

5.Connection problem with Apple Mac computers via Wi-Fi is fixed

List of changes

Nice new firmware. @Vitaliy_Kiselev Any progress on the GH3 since June 2.? Thanks!

@AndersM - Read previous posts much?

I do not understand why there is all this mistery about GH3 hacking. GF1/GH1/Gh2 process was far more transparent. What we miss? And what date we can expect?

As donor I do not pretend anything except knowing how the work is progressing.

Thank you in advance

Of the task list you had on the first post. Would it be possible to identify the prioritization? For example are you prioritizing GH3 over the older bodies having manual controls? Or even a status how far some of the initiatives are in. I know things like this probably just slow things down, I think some of us base our purchases on these hacks and where they are. I know the GX1 and smaller bodies would have much higher sales if they had manual control, 24p and higher bitrates =p.

Thanks ahead of time, just a suggestion if you have time.

I wouldn't be surprised if Vitaliy is more busy working on a dump than updating a thread :)

Being a Eng. PR, setting expectations is not always the good thing. From what I see, there is simply no ETA.

From my point of view, I would love to see this "hacking" project being open source (if it can bring resources on the dev. side). I am sure I am not the only one ready to help on this :)

Hi I mostly use my GH3 for sports like martial arts and urban stuff, so I'm all the time switching from the 50p to the 25p All-I codecs. The 50p one as far as I understand, if slowed down x2 matching the 25p timeline, it pretty much becomes a 25mb/s codec. When in post, that jump in a video that has both codecs can be obvious in a big screen. Having a higher bitrate for the 50p mode would kickass. Is there any chance of capturing higher framerates? Does it depend on hardware or software?

Thanks mr. Vitaly. Respects to your work :)