@HillTop1

Glad to hear you had no issues. I do think its a great camera and will most definitely pick up another one in a couple of months. I always try to control my impulse to buy rev1 stuff but I always seem to wind up getting it anyway. This issue may simply affect certain cameras or may be the 12-35 lens in combination under certain situations. Neither I nor the guys who tested it at the store have a clue. Whatever the case, enjoy yours and can't wait to see some examples.

Aked, I have the hiccup/stutter on 50p too, a little less but still pretty much unusable. Will post some footage asap. thanks.

I just tested my little canons S95 pan/tilt against the GH3 and the motion is a lot smoother on the point and shoot, this can't be right. Either my camera is broken or I'm overseeing something major in the settings. Tried to upload some footage here but I can't get it small enough, will try again tomorrow. Thanks

My results look very much like the video that was posted by TheWindcharger on dec 8.

The Comparison from olivia shows me that actually all 4 cameras have pretty good footage with that rokinon lens in normal conditions. There are different things to like for each shot, in some cases just the image quality compared to the price of the camera used... Guess the differences are probably easier to tell when these cameras get pushed to their limits so I'm looking forward to that test from @Shian

Bragg Creek footage is really nice but unfortunately stutters a bit (waterflow and the pans)

@Arquer053 No I give each test a new project in FCPX, and each project is set to the format and frame rate of the clip. I did transcode a number of tests toProres and still saw the "hiccup". What I find a little strange is that I see the Hiccup on certain pans but not others on Vimeo and Youtube clips which have been compressed therefore removing any strain on my native CPUs or GPUs.

@cbrandin As I said I tried both with and without OIS. The hiccup is still there. Quite a bit of jello, aliasing and moire too under contrasty conditions unfortunately. Like I said, it may be that I have a problem with the camera. What I find weird is that I see it on a number of the uploaded clips too. I've edited uncompressed HD on this system many times and never seen this, so I'm stumped. I took it back to the dealer and they refunded me completely after watching the test files. Their suggestion was to wait and see what Panny does in the next little while. They will submit a report. They didn't have a clue either.

I really do like this camera and hope that this gets sorted soon. I'll pick up a new one in a month or two and run some new tests. It might just be a bad batch.

@Conundrum After a lot of tests with my 2 gh3... with 25p 72 25p 50... I saw "hiccups", yes. But the problem is that those hiccups "are moving" on the file and so I think that the problem is more a problem of Codec and decoding. As an example... I just shoot an horizontal pan.... and sometimes the hiccups are at 7" and 12" sometimes at 10" and sometimes (like if it was on cache no hiccups at all). Same thing on my pc (i7 990X 16gb GTX680) and on my mac book (15" Retina 8gb).

May be this is totally crazy... but , as my wife saw the same thing on the screen, if i'm crazy, we are two :)

@Conundrum I see..., well, all the native videos I've downloaded from the GH3 play butter smoothly in my pc, even the PAL ones. The "strobing" could be caused by many reasons, like dropping 24p video into a 30p, 60p or 60i timeline, however, you mention it happens in camera. The only two things that come into my mind for that are either your camera is defective, or you use a very high shutter speed when testing the camera. Maybe a downloadable sample clip could make things clearer? =)

@fredfred27 Fair enough. It just looks kinda bad to me, and I tend to doubt from users that don't allow for "likes" and don't allow commentaries or filter them through revision and approval (I'm waiting for him to answer me about the ISO settings he used). I had a bad experience with one a couple of months ago with someone like that. And let's not forget this guy who has posted a lighter video a 100 times with different camera names to get views! Smart, I have to admit, but what a bastard. Of course he's disabled all comments.

On the other hand the user mentions to have used a 14-140mm, so that explains the bad look apart from the heavy compression.

@charlie_orozco Panasonic lists 50i in the specs for the GH3. You have no reason to doubt that the video is from a GH3.

@charlie_orozco I honestly don't know, i got this video from someone who posted it on philip blooms forum.

@Conundrum So you do suspect it is a camera error?