@thepalalias Isn't that how it is now?

Ah, yes that might be correct. :)

Some simple features that would help (not only) underwater enthusiasts:

"restricted focus range" - my older cameras all allowed to limit the auto focus to "non-near" distances, which is a very important feature if you need to focus in water that has a lot of particles in it that confuse the auto-focus.

"make all functions accessible from the menu" - while most camera owners enjoy having a multitude of knobs, every additional knob on a camera that is strictly required for the camera to be operable means significant additional cost and risk of leakage when building underwater housings. Thus, for an underwater user it may be a very good trade-off to access some seldom-used functions more indirectly via a menu, requiring less mechanical holes & knobs in the housing. This is also important for focus and zoom settings - which are especially difficult to address mechanically in an underwater housing. (Of course, the ultimate help for underwater-housing manufacturers is to just integrate a cheap infrared remote control receiver, which allows to access functions from outside a sealed housing without any mechanical holes at all.)

"automatic grey card use": When enabled, recognize a simple pattern that can be printed on a grey card, and when this pattern is detected in an image, use a custom white balance setting based on the greycard reading (for subsequent video and stills).

"do not make timed trigger and bracketing mutually exclusive" - I always wondered why the GH2's dial is created such that you cannot put the camera on a tripod and ask it to shoot an exposure bracket series 10 seconds from now.

But I guess, after all, the most obvious of all requested features are the ones that are also the most unlikely to be realized by any stubborn big corporation: Don't fuck your customers by dongling overpriced expendable accessories (like batteries). Don't cripple the camera to ridiculously low recording bit rates. Therefore, I am kind of sure that no matter what the GH3 will bring, it will take a lot of time and a firmware hack until any GH2 user will have a reason to actually upgrade ;-)

Personally I would think they should create programable follow focus for native M43 lenses that focus by wire. Specifically you should be able to manually focus on each end program and then program the timing of the transition. This should not be difficult to do.

@Vitaliy_Kiselev - Yes please to the full metadata with assignable prefix. Clearly, I wasn't thinking big enough!

adding a video game in camera, like space invaders or tetris

I am for Galaxians (Space Invaders clone) :-)

Finishing the game unlocks 100fps mode.

Yep, last 999 level won't be easy, and if you take no savings ability into account...

@matthere

I don't understand how would anyone benefit from phone photographers becoming target group for GH3. Panasonic is already rich enough. Or not?? In my opinion GH3 should be aimed at low end of pro market, indie, etc. They have other cams in Lumix line that can deal with iphone enthusiasts, and GH3 should be spared of iA iR supereasy auto instant filters, .. as much as possible.

Some kind of USB connectivity, so you can preview the live view, and control the camera, and take photos etc from a computer.

Better screen (colour wise - the GH2's is TERRIBLY red-cast)

@inqb8tr There are a lot of professional video makers here on personal-view for whom the process of making movies includes lots of processes to get the best out of their footage. The addition of effects that do anything other than producing the best image for grading probably seems like an odd idea. The addition of Wifi in camera might also appeal to those who want to add a user designed profile prior to shooting so that the footage can be uploaded via the wifi connection without any processing. I'm not looking to restrict the potential pro features of the Gh3, just looking at the enthusiast market where having user profiles might just entice more people to m43, probably a good thing for us all, ie. cheaper prices of both cameras and lenses.

I put my GH2 on a jib quite often, so if there is an option to stream via Wi-Fi the best possible view to an iPad or larger monitor, this would make me happy, and help the director with seeing the shot I'm framing.

+1 for proper names for video modes. This FS/FSH/HBR stuff is just nonsense and confusing. I want to see it displayed as something like 1080p25, 720p50, 1080p24[hbr] or similar.

Setting the white balance by a grey card in the center-focus point would be a huge time saver and really cool for video (where you can't shoot raw and do it later.)