@maxr oh right, I didn't see that post. I didn't realise someone else had the exact problem as me. But yeah, I tried upgrading to 1.2, downgrading to 1.1, and back up to 1.2 (I originally encountered the problem on v1.1)

But I think I may have found a solution. I've been using both official panasonic batteries and uh... cheaper no-name brand batteries. It only seems to happen with the no-names.

Not sure if that's really stupid and obvious to some people, but I generally use cheaper batteries because I'm a cheapskate and I've never encountered problems using them before.

So there you go. A cautionary tale. It would seem that using cheap knock-off batteries kills your timelapses.

Hey ya'll, I've searched this a bunch and can't find anyone else with this problem. I've been using the internal intervalometer to do timelapses on the GH3.

About 90% of the time, it just stops taking pictures and goes into sleep mode. Sometimes after taking 10 pictures, sometimes after 800. Its appears to be totally random as to when it stops. It doesn't seem to be related to battery power, memory card, how many pictures I set it to take, the interval of photos or whether it's on auto/manual exposure. I've done a system reset, upgraded to v1.2, downgraded back to 1.1.

Anyone else encountered this? Or have any brainwaves of possible solutions? Is there something really stupidly obvious that I'm missing?

Otherwise, guess I'll just get an external intervalometer....

@Baramed ;-)

I wanted to buy the next GH4 but I'm really afraid now....

@surfculture mine is not guaranteed, I gave my gh3 to the retailer ( Objectif Bastille) They sent it to their repair center, total of the bill 999.28 € !!!!!! For the alimentation issue and an issue with the sensor ( pink dots in the image).... I was hoping that panasonic can repair it for free (for the alimentation issue) because it's a design issue.... I paid it 1 200 eur for 1 year.... It's a bit expensive.... :(

Thanks @SuperSet I have the first version too, I'm in france, it's a battle to reach panasonic about this issue, I'll try.

I'm ok with you too buddy =) • Sorry if I sounded rough, just a bit... frustrated ,-)

@surfculture faltaba meno, off course they can fix it... but shouldn't have happen (massively) in the first place ,-)

my GH3 died because of that, a screw got loose and caused a short circuit in the body... I'm mad!!

you should @baramed, this is totally unacceptable!!! IMHO we are so focused in specs' porn - and sadly that's a big part of the problem; we want for yesterday a smart phone size, feather light, panzer durable transformer camera that outresolves dragon's sensor and costs less than a blowjob - thus very obvious everyday handling issues get through almost as... a debility on the product's character, fuck that demagogy!!! I'm mad too

{whisper} now I really have to go epoxy my whore some more and search for that loose screw... before panchonic screw-me, cheeeee

Guys, as many people mentioned before DON'T USE GH3 HOT SHOE for any other than a level bubble or something super light, it is utterly crap, very very badly implemented, not reliable at all. Unless you want to epoxy the hell out f it. Mine fell apart within 3 uses =(

Panasonic shame on you, in 15 years using SLR and DSLR's I never have seen such a shitty hot shoe... did "you" just though perfet zoluchon Daichi, thiz tiny tiny inconzpicuous zcrew will withztand the typical abuze a top of the line product iz zupposed to endure???!!! ARggghh I hope we never meet in the elevator Panasonic... je je je

At thos point my #1 priority would be focus peaking. It is way too fiddly/unreliable to focus manually without it...

There is none.

Could anyone help me turn off the focus expansion in photography mode? When I try to focus an object automatically, it expands the image. I wanna be able to see the image in its original size, no focus expansion. Thanks.

Also any word on the next GH3 firmware update? Any focus peaking?