G85 overheating? record time? light sensitivity? stabilization?

Elmokki wrote:

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.

That is essentially correct - mine is the PAL version and although not "European" did have limitations (including the braindead choice of 24fps or 25fps for recording rate).

The key combination is hardly esoteric and is performed in a few seconds, and there are no downsides to using the camera in this state. This allows people with these cameras to match the output from action cams and phones, so most people would find this useful if they do any video at all, though I think many would not realise this was possible.