GH5 Autofocus FIX | Better than Canon/Sony? 

Having played with the custom settings I'll shed a bit of light and will more than likely get the pulsing under control. Basically the speed increases or decreases how far the camera adjusts the checking image, as a guess I'd say 0 speed and -1 sensitivity would be a good string point for general stuff and fast tracking subjects to and from the camera would benefit from the +5 speed. An ideal use fir the custom settings buttons :)

Out of all the youtube videos that claim to show how to fix the GH5 AF issue, this young man has done the best job by far. For many of us that are new to video Matt begins with the very simple starting point, making sure your have the Mode dial set to the Video icon. Sounds stupid but many of us are really just beginning. He then takes us through to the other option I did not see from anyone else and that is SS/Gain Operation and then finally to Synchro Scan. Very well done and I'll be coming back to Matts channel in the future. I like this kid.

You are the very first one to explain ‘how’ to do it while other would just show and talk about the results. Job well done, you saw the opportunity, you didn’t waste time and you nailed it! 🤘🏻😊🤙🏻

EXCELLENT!!! Fixed my GH5 Focus issues

I'm not sure I want to keep my GH5 at 30p 8 bit just to get improved auto focus. But that's just me. I am hopeful that Panasonic will act on this information and fix it in the next firmware update.

You're getting nasty focus breathing / pulsing which is most likely due to your custom AF settings being on +5 which is probably too fast.

i have tried this out and it worked perfectly. nothing now can be compared with gh5 except a newer gh5.

Been using it for a few days and all I can say is wow it's a big difference. Totally usable now.

I’ve watched a ton of these autofix videos and you nailed this one with all the examples. Thanks!

That pulsing AF is driving me crazy, completely unusuable imho.

I'm late on this, just got my GH5 last month but from what I can tell...this was a game changer. Great video man...I loved the vibe. @YodaYeo is the MAN!!! Totally agree.

well done! A great improvement for GH5 setting. Keep up the good work my friend

The hunting is super annoying to watch

Thanks so much, I am a beginner and walking through the settings helped a lot. I wish there was a video that walks through the best settings for each scenario.

Thanks for sharing the info! We use a GH5 as our a cam for a run and gun style series and it's been the Achilles heel of the camera. A couple questions: 1) Are you using AFS/AFF or AFC? Have you experimented with the various settings to see which one's the winner? 2) What about other AF modes with the 179 degree shutter angle? 225, the one with a small area of AF points as well. I normally use 1 area because that was best before, but sometimes it's not the right tool for the job. 3) What about just using 1/60 shutter speed instead of going to 179 degrees? I've heard it can do similar things??? 4) Did the results get better for you with going down to 160, 150, 140...etc? Where's the best performance (Although 179 looks great from here!) I've got the leica nocticron and the panny 12-35 so I will give some of your findings a test on these lenses. Thanks again!

wow Matt, i can't believe the GH5's autofocus can be that good. Well done & thanks!

For me, this is a big deal. I was holding off on purchasing a GH5 for the AF issue. But, where is the response from Panasonic engineering? And why didn't their engineers find this? Perhaps there is a future firmware update that will optimize all these settings...

You don't have to use the synchro scan setting. All you need to do is change from shutter angle to "SEC/ISO" and set the shutter speed to 1/60. It does the same thing. The reason is that on shutter angle it is not really choosing 1/60 but slightly under 1/60. I use one of my custom settings for auto focus. That way you can still use shutter angle on everything else.

This option, and his, didn’t work on mine and none of my lenses. Oh well, back to manual focusing and the 6d2 for me I guess lol. Good job on the video my man 👍🏼

Surprisingly, I applied these settings to my GH4 and it works well.

thanks I was holding off on getting it but now I order it today thanks to you and YodaYeo

So I have a burning question... and not about the autofocus fix, although great job Yoda Yeo! If, before this fix, everyone was running around shooting with a 180 degree shutter, what did you do to knock down the light at larger apertures, and especially if you're shooting V-log outdoors? The two main ND solutions have major drawbacks for me: 1. Vari ND filters - these are great until you change lenses and also have to spend the time unscrewing the filter and screwing it back onto the new lens if you remember to do it. This also assumes that you have adapted all the filter threads of all your lenses to the same size so you can swap filter between lenses, or I guess the super expensive option is to buy Vari-ND for every lens which is great until you're in a low light situation and forget the ND on the front of your lens. Option 2. - Matte box and ND filter set. Aside from matte-boxes being either really expensive, or really cheap and very badly made to the point you just want to throw it down the stairs; Once you have attached the matte box (presumably with LWS bars), the problem here is that the whole rig becomes bigger heavier and generally less portable for run and gun style shooting. It also makes the camera REALLY conspicuous so throws the option of street videography out of the window. Although a good matte-box stops direct light from hitting your ND (which is SO nice). I ask this question because after trying both these options for ND I have found myself often just throwing the 180 degree shutter rule out of the window if I'm in a situation where I don't have time to be messing with the gear. I make sure the shutter is at least expressed in degrees so that the shutter speed is always a factor of the frame rate. But to be honest no one really notices when I do use faster shutter speeds (clients), especially if the content is destined for nowhere more than social media etc. I find that the ability to maintain a good exposure at the aperture you actually want, rather than need, to be much more impactful on the perceived quality (by my clients) of the footage than any motion blur or lack thereof. Would love to know peoples' thoughts on the matter, but you know, only from people who actually earn money from what they shoot. No pixel peepers or lens collectors please. Thanks

Honestly, after seeing your video on a bigger screen than my phone, with the fix working with native lenses it makes me want to get some! Never thought i'd be saying that!

Great video! Very informative, it was easy to follow and helped me a lot.

GH5 users get their camera value now, congrats ~

Thanks for sharing this tip. Its a HUGE improvement. It doesn't seem to work with all lenses, but that's probably an issue within the particular lens. BTW, the trees in the outdoor shots look very strange as the camera hunts for focus. Do you have sharpening turned way up? If so, turn it all the way off. It doesn't add usable detail, and you can always sharpen in post.

It works at but it's by no means fast compared to other good AF cameras.

Congratulations for spreading the word! To be sincere your video was the first I watch and then I follow the link into Yoda´s video fix. And my question to you or to the Panasonic camera users is: that fix works with the GH4?!

Very heavy focus hunting forth and back several times each time the camera refocusses. Maybe reduce AF speed a bit to avoid this flickering background due to focal length. Not sure if it is otherwise useful at all, even if focus is now faster.

Just some feedback on lighting: compare what your face looks like in the garden (3:00), where it`s lit more evenly to what it looks like in your desk setting. I know you were trying set that classic portrait lighting there, but it makes your face look a little wierd. You may want to have that soft light not come straigth from the side but a little more from the front... Also, what happened in the af test in the garden on the leica lenses? They were pulsating really badly in the background.

Every time you waved your arm in the talking head session in the begin , i saw the the image of the blurry lamp ...hunt 🤔

Nice test. Not sure on that AF Speed +5 setting though. It's taking away any smoothness from the focus transitions and exacerbates the pulsing in a pretty unfriendly way.

120 works on my Lumix 12-60 is a huge difference!

I'm using 4K 60fps, but the settings are not letting update Synchro Scan, "this menu item cannot be set". Any ideas what settings I have wrong that are preventing this?

Great test with native lenses. Enjoy you new camera. :)

I wish you did these tests with NDs on. Not many people will shoot like this in the bright ass sun

Matt, thanks for this tip. I notice in some clips you can really see some drastic shutter movement. With your Leica 12-60mm you can see some funkyness going on in the sky. What is this? Is it like moreaying? Unfortunately I shot a lot of action on water and have a good amount of sky and water in my shots. To me something like that is borderline unacceptable to publish. Do you know how to remove that weird shutter but still be able to utilize the AF feature?

Even though the focus is supper snappy, it breathes way too much. You can see the flickering and micro-adjustments in the background. It becomes pretty distracting. That's just due to you maxing out the AF speed. Great video though!

0:11 I'm watching that out of focus camera in the background (upper left) focus bouncing in and out.

Actually works better!! Using Sigma 18-35mmThanks for the vid!

Thanks for sharing how to change the settings for Noobs like me! Much appreciated!

It works someway, but the focus breathing makes it absolutely unusable in practice. Anyway, thanks for your your efforts!

You need to turn your sharpness down so the refocusing doesn't make your background strobe so much

I will be looking into this when mine arrives! However the indoor shots appeared brilliant...but there is something very unsettling happening to the background in the exterior shots.....but one could work round it.

I've gotten used to manual focus and aperture, but I'm sure Panasonic can fix this with a firmware update.

that hunting makes dizzy damn

you give to me the perfect information i was looking for thanks a lot...

Great Matt Krieg....I cancel to buy this Camera, after wacth this...consider it again

focus hunting is pretty noticable

Great video, thank you! Which lens do you think would be better for a vlogging travel ones that I can turn around on me and then also be the main work horse while we are traveling? The Panasonic 12-35, or the Panasonic 12-60 Leica?

Is the auto focus better than Sony or Canon, the trees say no.

Great video, thanks for making it!

Would be nice to see that in a vlog scenario. To see if it hold up

Hi, Thank you Matt & YodaYeo for the fix. Will this fix work on adapted lenses? I have a Metabones Speedbooster Ultra with Sigma 18-35, Tokina 11-16 and a Canon 50mm 1.8. I am also planning a Canon 100mm L-series in near future. Will the fix work on these as well??

So, once I set the 179 shutter degree angle, what would my normal shutter speed be at, whether on 30p or 25p on 4K (UHD). I am slightly confused. Any help appreciated.

fantastic man :) tested with my 12-32 f2.8 its like light and day the difference thanks for the tip and great vid :)

That is a very helpfull video but I didn’t like that flickering in the background (sky area). I never had such issues with the dual pixel auto focus from canon which does that really smooth.

OMG, yes! THANK YOU

The autofocus is much better but definitely have to get the pulsing under control.

It doesn t work with my 20mm 1.7... it s normally? I cannot use the AFC modus...It s a bug or it s normally? :/

Dear Matt, I can't make my Shutter Angle ("d") display come up on LCD Monitor and also Synchro Scan is greyed out at Movie mode.

Exelletnt video..thanks a lot!

Thanks for the video. But how does the Face Recognition compare with this new setting to the Single point setting you had chosen?

Unfortunately this doesn’t seem to work on the GH4.

Thanks for sharing. Did you do any testing at 180d? Also, it seems a little too fast, the focus breathing turned me off, then there are some cases where the focus “snaps” quickly, looks off. Other times it worked perfectly.

Ok what about you got to adjust angle to 218 because of the ambient led light? It’s great what you showed but what different lighting situation when you got to adjust angle to eliminate flickering

Why does the background sky look like flickering?

Hey! Thanks for the accurate test. I appreciated. I've seen others with face detection on or center focus on. What are your settings?

Wouldn't say better but definitely an approvement overall

Why the background all this time Zipping And flickering

Your focus in video is hunting :)

Hey, thanks for sharing. What where speed sensitivity setting in this video?

Great easy to follow advise , thanks ... so peed off with all the "waddup dudes. blah blah high speed blugh " great vid

WOW... thats great! Have you told that to Panasonic? Seems to be a simple software bug :-)

interesting!!! seems the olympus has less focus breathing then the panasonics

GRACIAS !

Is It the same with 24/60/120 or 180 at 1080p? Thanks!

So the Synchro Scan replaces the shutter speed? (Or, acts as..)

Hmm. This didn't work for me and my GH5. Maybe there are other settings to change?

Hello, like us, buy a Sony camera, there are no issues with autofocus

I just noticed you did all of your tests at 8 bit. Does this not work at 10 bit setting?

Is this in pal or ntsc frequency!

Is the dynamic range of the GH5 really so small? The sky is blown out so badly.

By the way..do you know something about use sigma Art lens 18-35 used on Gh5 with metabonws? there Is a problem...But does not is un GH4.

which one is good for eu 25 or 50

Great video, you have a little bit of hunting on the background, try a lesser sensitivity and that will be gone 😁

sorry if you stated in the video but does it have to be in 8-bit for this "hack" to work?

Matt, I am Using Olympus 45 mm as well. O do not know why, but when I choose 4K 8Bits 100M 30P as you I can not use the speed and sensibility like you. Just if I choose 10 Bits... Do you know why??

Hi, does this hack work in the gx85? I don't own that cam, so I cannot check the menu but interested in buying one.

does anyone know how he is exiting the menu without touching the lcd screen?

pulsing....

Still terrible!!! The background lights on off as it is Christmas! Good camera though!

Stupid question, but if I'm using 4K 60 would I just change it to 179 as well? Thanks in advance for your council!

hey, does this work on the G85??

Does it work with GH4?

Hey - where did you set the single spot af?

look at all the pulsing in the background! its looks terrible.

You cut the shutter angle setting off, your test is flawed. You instead should have left shutter angle on and switched it to 180. It’s really not that much of a difference from 179-180. I’m speaking from Olympus Pro glass user stand point.

Nice!

wow nice