Thank you so much for this! For anyone who has problems connecting to PC, set the camera to PLAY mode before connecting the USB cable. This works on GX80 at least.
And when you return the camera back, before be sure to remove the memory card, otherwise it happens that you cannot return it to the factory firmware until you remove the memory card, it may report an error (not always)
Thank you so much mate. It worked for me.. i wish that setting was default in the camera.. Anyway, each time I turned off the camera I see the yellow warning.. Anyway of getting rid of it? cheers
Thanks for the vid! Now every time I turn off the camera, I have that exclamation mark triangle pop up. Is there any way to stop this happening? The 60p seems to work great, the exclamation mark just freaks me out a little bit is all haha.
This is normal. There's no way to switch it off, unfortunately. Only if you reset the region back to default settings, as shown at the end of the video, you'll no longer see the exclamation mark.
@Alex Sickshow Brother, I don't know English. but the same thing happened to me. My problem was button error. First press "DISP" then the right button. I hope it is the same and the solutions. (Use translator)
Thank you for the video! How problematic can it be using Service Mode in a long term? Since I live in a 30p / 60p country I wouldn't make it back to PAL again so soon.
After the camera being set to NTSC, I can't connect the camera to my PC. So I initialised it. Now the counter is cleared and it is naming photos and videos from 100-0001. Is there any ways to get the old numbers back?
Hello, i'm thinking of getting the G85 from the US simply as it has no recording time limit (my understanding is that due to EU regulations cameras that are not 'video' cameras have this time limit set up). Would I be able to reverse your process to change it to PAL and will it still not have the time limit? thanks so much for putting this video up!
G80 / G85 already has 25P / 50P PAL modes selectable without the need to perform this procedure. So, you can buy a US G85, record video with no time limit, and still shoot 25P.
@@BartechTV this seems to say that the G85 only has NYSC. I i see that your procedure was needed on the the GX but no longer on the G80. www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/4115293
Maybe its because you switch the camera into a "service mode". So its maybe a safety (that you cannot connect to the PC while being in it). Some also reported, that AVCHD doesn´t work anymore (at least on the older GX8). But as you can still use all the other modes fine, it´s still worth it staying in the service mode ^^. LG
I have gx80 too but in the recording quality selection I only have the options like "FHD 28M /50P" , "FHD 17M / 50i" , FHD 24M / 25P" and "FHD 24M / 24P".. no other options. What is the problem and how can I fix it?
Hi Kathryn, I no longer own my FZ1000 but from memory, the procedure is slightly different - set the camera to single shot, then with the camera off, hold down the Disp and AF/AE-L buttons, switch camera on and then release the buttons. If you look on my channel for the video on how to switch the GX8 to 30p/60p, the procedure is the same for the FZ1000.
@@BartechTV much appreciated. Now when I have changed the settings, every single time I switch off the camera I have attention triangle warning ⚠️ but this do not bother me, at least it works and what I wanted. One more time thanks 💸
@@cornelius2993 not what my comment is about, its about the insanely weird way to change this for your camera. And 10fps is a great deal for online content which is on 30 fps. So 60 you can playback in "slomo" half speed
Under artifical lights you mean? That's normal and has nothing to do with camera malfunctioning. In most european countries the AC electric current alternates @ 50hz while in for instance the USA it's 60Hz. When you video a scene in a 50Hz country under artificial lights using 60 fps, you will see flickering because the camera's fps doesnt sync with the local current's "refresh rate". That's why camera's for european countries use 25/50fps and camera's for USA 30/60fps
If you want to keep the 30fps mode, when shooting with artificial lights switch to 24fps and 1/50 shutter speed, the flickering will disappear or be very reduced.
Does not work on my GX80. Its set to PAL and I want to set it to NTSC. I follow the instructions but nothing works or happens when I do so. Help anyone?
These are the exact steps from the official Panasonic Service Manual for the GX80, so if it didn't work either you did it wrong or your camera has a problem.
It works on my GX80, which also has the latest firmware. This 'hack' is actually in the official Panasonic service manual for the GX80, so it's unlikely that it's something they would remove. Double-check that you're doing everything in the video exactly as I explained it.
It works! Other manuals have "display" instead of "playback" to push. This video is correct for gx80. My firmware is 1.2. I bought this camera 2 months ago from Amazon.
Because of stupid marketing. Panasonic wants you to buy the GH4, GH5 or FZ2000 which have free choice of framerates and codecs, so they limit the options on their lower models. With newer ones like GX800 or GX9 you can change the framerate in MP4, but not in AVCHD which has higher audio bitrate. 128kbs audio is not so nice.
Yes, you're changing the region so the camera thinks it's an NTSC model and therefore you get 30p/60p recording instead of the 25p/50p modes in PAL models.
You must be doing it wrong. Try again. These steps are straight from the official Panasonic service manual, and I've performed them many times on two different GX80's.
No 'conversion' as such it's simply a switch to different number of frames per second. With the increased frame rates you should experience smoother video. All modern TVs can play PAL (25fps) or NTSC (30fps) so no worries about that, unless you are trying to play the video straight from the camera onto a 25 year old CRT TV, and even those may be able to cope with NTSC.
@@mpwheatley NOT HERE in europe,i am having flickering issues on video mode after switching to ntsc mode,the flickering was'nt there in PAL mode,strange!
@@harolddasynth795 That maybe due to the indoor lighting, or any artificial lighting. That's being powered by a 50hz mains supply. The lights are in sync to that frequency. So 50hz to 50 FPS is undetectable. At 30 FPS, the camera is sightly faster at recording, so will see the slight light flicker of the 50hz mains supply. Just a guess.
Yes, and then deal with overheating, overpriced and limited selection of lenses and non-stabilised primes in video mode. Oh and not to forget the annoying "Camera is in NTSC mode" warning Sony thinks is sooo important at every startup.
