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G85 overheating? record time? light sensitivity? stabilization?

Started Jan 25, 2018 | Discussions thread
Elmokki Regular Member • Posts: 276
Re: G85 record time? "Actual" vs "continuous" and other

hindesite wrote:

Quantum Target wrote:

As I mentioned, the session length is planned to be about 1 hour. The G7 is off the table because: "Maximum time to record motion pictures continuously with [MP4] in [4K] is 29 minutes 59 seconds." this is still up on the Panasonic web site.

Mine does unlimited recording in 4K.

The 29 minutes 59 seconds is an European taxation thing. As far as I have understood EU imposes extra tolls on video cameras and anything recording 30min or more is taxed extra. Due to this digital camera manufacturers limit the recording, at least on cameras sold in Europe. This may be part of the reason why G85 is also G80 and G81 and GX85 is also GX80.

You can change GX80 at least to think it was not sold in Europe. It changes the framerate settings for video and assumedly the max recording time too. I have not tried this as it needs some esoteric key combinations and I have had no need for it either.

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