I need to shoot video for a 12 hour day using a GH3. How many batteries + chargers do you think I need? I think 3 batteries and 2 chargers will work fine, but if I'm wrong about 10 people will be sitting around giving me the stink eye.

Thanks guys.

The EVF seems a little bit not sharp on the edges. I can see it clearly. The unsharpen-Area moves as i move my Eye.... It's a little bit strange... It's not the EVF itself, it's the Glass over the EVF. If you look in not straight, its getting very unsharp.

@pilpop you mean worse then on the gh2?

I got my GH3 yesterday, and have one small question for you guys: Is it possible to stop the screen info from disappearing after 10 seconds of shooting? This drives me nuts and I can't find any way to stop it from happening other than to touch a button every 10 seconds. I really hope that it's just me overlooking something here, because I don't see any reason why anyone would want all vital info including shutter/aperture and audio levels just disappearing from the screen!

Thanks!

Cleaner shadows makes a big difference. With the GH2 I obsess about having too much shadow in the frame. With the GH3 I would just shoot.

Nice people. Thanks you all for your comments.

@Manu4Vendetta Thanks for sharing comparison. A great starter test!

From above link, GH3 didn't look nearly as sharp as GH2 in last test, and the blacks weren't as dark as in GH2 (not sure if that matters, that can be adjusted in post). However, I'm not sure from what I've read that pulling sharpening all the way down is best setting for GH3, and the test was down with the 12-35mm, where the GH3 might be having issues with lens compensation. I would like to see the same test done with manual lenses.

is it me or does the GH3 still look very videoy. I don't have a GH3 but the GH2 and the recent settings such as Apocalypse Now Boom look much more filmic than before. The GH3 (prob with the Sony sensor) looks very videoish. I hope to see some more examples on here soon from some cinematographers.

@amateur thanks for that test. Auto focus looks great and it was pretty great with the gh2 to begin with.

Oh, the lack of ETC support in 1080p60 is just killing me. Why oh why do they not have that feature? I'd love to use it with autofocus for bird work. Of course I'd also love for someone to make a 200-400 lens for m43rds and I can't get what I want all the time.

Thanks @amateur . Very sorry @Manu4Vendetta , I thought it was your test. Well, I still want to point out that the uploader resized his resolution test, and therefore it is not a proper presentation of the results. To the Vimeo comments!

@GH2UW, I dont trust these tests as you notice it yourself testers don't know about a good focusing...

The GH3 looked pretty good in that comparison video. There are times when the 5D3 looks pretty darned good and I think people are sometimes a bit too harsh on the 5D3. It's not the greatest in terms of detail, but with good sharpening it's more than capable IMO. I liked the colors on the GH3 in that they didn't look too bad next to 5D3 footage, considering the quality of 5D3 color which is one of it's strong suits.

For the life of me I don't know how anyone could not notice the clear edge the GH3 has in terms of resolution of detail over the 5D3 tho. Just look at the fences in many of the shots or the distant thin tree branches and you see so much more detail in the GH3 and soft mush on the 5D3 footage. I would really consider a 5D3 for shots that don't require fine detail and low light stuff. GH3 seems like a solid choice for high detail shots where it would really show up if the image lacked detail.

• random new samples from FlickR.

Iso 1600 : http://www.flickr.com/photos/31693460@N06/8247320769/sizes/k/in/photostream/

Iso 3200 : http://www.flickr.com/photos/31693460@N06/8247318771/sizes/k/in/photostream/