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Panasonic Time Lapses Half the Length They Should Be?

Started Mar 2, 2015 | Questions thread
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disraeli demon
disraeli demon New Member • Posts: 20
Panasonic Time Lapses Half the Length They Should Be?

Has anyone else had the following issue?

This has happened to me with both a Panasonic GX7 and LX100 using the built-in time-lapse feature.

I set the camera for 250 frames @ 1 second interval and the camera runs through the operation, counting down from 250 to zero as it goes. I can review the frames on the card (though because of the way the cameras display time-lapse frames, it's hard to check the number of frames).

On checking the card on my computer at home, I find there are only about half the number of JPEGs there should be - around 120 for a 250-frame time lapse. The time-lapse settings on the camera still show 250 frames, so I've not mis-set the camera.

In each case I think the fault was triggered by having a more processor-intensive setting active - iDynamic was on in the case of the GX7 and "Vivid" photo style in the case of the LX100. Presumably these settings mean the camera can't process sufficient frames at a rate of 1 per second over the course of the time lapse?

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