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Should Panasonic add a Minimum Shutter Duration setting to the GH4?

Started Jun 13, 2014 | Polls thread
OP mpgxsvcd Veteran Member • Posts: 8,094
Re: amen
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I just wanted to bump this thread again because I think I failed to make one point clear.

This minimum shutter speed for Program Priority mode needs to apply to both video and stills. By that I mean whenever you are recording either stills or video in Program priority mode the camera should adhere to the minimum shutter speed rule.

This is necessary especially for 60p video. By default the camera will use 1/60 of a second shutter speed for all wide angle video that is not shot in the creative movie mode. That is fine for 30p video but not the ideal setting for 24p or more importantly 60p video.

What this setting does is guarantee that the shutter speed won’t drop down below the 180 degree rule for 60p video. We want to be able to keep 1/120 of faster shutter speed at all times for 60p video. Ideally we would always want 1/120 for 60p. However, without built-in ND filters you will find that the camera has to use a faster shutter speed in bright light.

If Panasonic reads this I really hope they understand why having this setting apply to both video and stills is so important to many of us. It can’t possibly be that hard to implement. I posted a video like this one for the GF1 shortly after it came out.

That GF1 video talked about how the default logic for the GF1 was not correct. That camera would default to 1/30 of a second in Program Priority mode. The video seemed to have worked because they quickly changed the logic in the cameras after that.

I hope they will change it for the GH4 and not wait to implement it in the GH5. This is missing functionality that should have been in there all along.

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