My LCD is loose and may drop of soon. I used 2sided tape but now I cant move LCD. EVF eypiece ocular has very soft coating. My eyeholes are so deep that I took off evf cover so that I can see hole picture in evf. Very soon ocular was scrached and now image is even softer than before. Be careful. Oh and front wheel is loose and sometimes does nothing. I think I go to service some day....

What's about the loose hot shoe issue? Anyone out there with experience after having it repaired by panny service?

Ran into another issue with my GH3 last week - the strap lugs began to come loose from the camera body. First a loose LCD hinge...and now the strap lugs come loose. Sent the camera back to Panasonic again.

Well, there is a big downside to just changing the file extension from MOV to MPG. If you do that, then there is no audio at all if you try to play the renamed MPG file in Windows Media player by double clicking in Explorer. Sure, it fixes the audio issue in PP CC, but...

@Sph1nxster: Cheers, I live in the USA... :( I wonder if you or anyone over there could be a mate and call YOUR service center to see if they can give advice? I'm at a loss, and pretty upset that they are ignoring me for the most part. they just wrote me back and directed me to...wait for it..... the place the sent me to them.

UPDATE:I emailed TX for information on how to get this to work, and they sent me this well written email... WOW.

Hey guys, so I dropped the GH3. The oled broke clean off. So I called and ordered a new LCD door and it came within 4 days. I installed it, but then the new screen when turned won't "flip". ( When you turn the screen out facing the subject, the screen orientation is supposed to change) In fact when the screen is faced out and then closed against the body, it is upside down, until it gets close to the body, where the magnet tells the body to turn the screen off. So the screen goes black as if it was facing the body. It doesn't know when the screen is rotated...

SO I tear open my 2nd GH3 and swap screens. The NEW replacement screen does it on both bodies, and the old screen from my other GH3 works fine on both bodies. OKAY, so it's the new screen. CAll Panasonic back, and they say sorry and send me a new one overnight. Guess what, the 2nd NEW screen does the same thing, won't flip screen when you rotate the door.

SO am I missing something here? Do I have to change some setting or somehow calibrate the screen? I can't imagine 2 brand new screens not working.

Here is a video of the screen issue: password is gh3

@5thwall +5 seems like a scary level of in cam sharpness. You might start seeing all kinds of side effects from it. I haven't heard of anyone shooting on +5. You might have a problem there. Check the best video settings thread.

My OLED is so ridiculously bad I'm suspecting it's faulty. It looks like a GIF! It seems acceptable for brighter areas, but for darker areas and shadows it looks like 256 colors graphics. Only good side is that it reminds me of my dear Spectrum 48k graphics. Is this "normal"(the OLED badness I mean, not my Sinclair addiction)?

Ok, so next issue on the chopping block. I'm finding my GH3 less sharp than my GH2 Sharpness was set to 0 on both cams.

I tested both the GH2 and the GH3 with my Voigtlander 25mm. Distance was the same. Just moved moved camera and lens on tripod head. It was set to f4-5.6. 800ASA. Both set to 5600K (it was indoor, but shouldn't matter for this test). Each time, cam was focused by popping into tele mode.

GH2 was set to Vibrant. Standard on the GH3. Don't think that should make a diff. Didn't test standard on each.

I also noticed shooting the moon last night that the I couldn't really get it in focus with the GH3 on the voigtlander - not like I can with the GH2. Hoping it's not an issue with the camera.

Here are two crops from the different cameras.

There's a setting to monitor either the recorded audio but with a delay, or the incoming audio with no delay.

After several years with my GH1s, I've decided to add to them the GH3. The main reason was that during an outside shoot this weekend, the BP 24p native hack kept failing and I had to switch to the 35 interlaced one for stability. I had the same problem on a shoot in Miami a couple weeks ago. My cameras seem to be most reliable shooting interlaced video (24p wrapped in the interlaced container, I suppose).

I think I'll be able to match the GH3 with the GH1s for interviews. After all, I made it work with the HMC150 for my last documentary.

My main question concerns SD cards and .mov wrapper clip length.

1. What SD cards have people had luck with? I've used the SDHC Transcend and Sandisk Extreme in my GH1s with no problems. I switched to the Sandisk when I began to have write shutdowns when shooting outside, but I kept one camera on the Transcend with no issues.

2. Clip length in 50mbps .mov - How long are the clip? And what cards should I use? How much footage can I get per card? For example, on my GH1s I can shoot for almost 4 hours on a 32gb card. What does that translate to with the GH3 at 50mpbs/24p/.mov?

We do long continuous interviews. This is why we shoot docs with the Panasonics instead of our Canons. For example, one interview this weekend went on for 2 hours, and one clip was 58 minutes without stopping. Will I have any problems with clip length using the .mov?

Thanks for your thoughts on these questions. You can see my last film shot with the hacked GH1 by going to ThreeDaysatFoster.com. It is a very traditionally shot historical documentary about the integration of football at the University of Alabama.

Please help. I shoot in full manual movie mode,expose on M on GH3 and in some case it change exposure?? Probable I must something change in menu. Please help