kye Posted August 3, 2019 Share Posted August 3, 2019 Has anyone used this hack with GF3? Normally I travel with a GH5 and action camera but recently I have been thinking that having a second body (that has the same lens mount) might be useful, both as a backup and also as a second angle for things like time lapses. If it improves the video quality that would be nice too, but not likely to be used much. I already own a GF3 and was thinking that it might be a good option and wondered if there was a hack to give it an intervalometer and found the hack. http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/2712/ptool-v3.65d-topic#Item_1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billdoubleu Posted August 3, 2019 Share Posted August 3, 2019 There's no way outside of a custom mechanical device or a rubber band wrapped around the shutter release in burst mode or the mini video mode that will allow time lapse on a GF3. I would be elated if there was, as I have one collecting dust in the closet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kye Posted August 3, 2019 Author Share Posted August 3, 2019 Just spent the last hour or two downloading the hack and playing with it, and learned three things: The hack doesn't allow time lapses I can't get the hack to load on the camera, despite about a dozen attempts, reading things across the ptool forums The forums are dead, without any activity in quite some years, so no real support either I also googled and found that there's no hack for time lapses, but did find a few examples of them from people, and had the thought about taping down the shutter button.... which actually isn't a bad idea lol. My other option is to buy a m43 camera with time-lapse built-in, but that's money and money spent on photography that isn't spent on lenses is pretty hard to justify when I really want a Laowa 7.5mm f2 and a Samyang 85mm 1.4. ??? Holding down the shutter button takes one frame about every 3s which is actually a pretty good time-lapse interval, so I think that works for me TBH. I tried RAW and just JPEG and both were about the same speed, so that's a bit odd but depending on if you want more DR or more files on the card, there are options Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kye Posted August 3, 2019 Author Share Posted August 3, 2019 51 minutes ago, billdoubleu said: There's no way outside of a custom mechanical device or a rubber band wrapped around the shutter release in burst mode or the mini video mode that will allow time lapse on a GF3. I would be elated if there was, as I have one collecting dust in the closet. What is the mini video mode? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Members BTM_Pix Posted August 3, 2019 Super Members Share Posted August 3, 2019 3 hours ago, kye said: What is the mini video mode? There is an example of it here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shell64 Posted August 3, 2019 Share Posted August 3, 2019 Get a cheap g7 or gx85. I have the g7 and the 4K is really nice and should match with your gh5 especially if both are in cinelile d. Also they have a great built in intervilometer that works with raw stills and can also compress them into 4K 100mbps 24fps. Both are really cheap Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronFilm Posted August 3, 2019 Share Posted August 3, 2019 10 hours ago, BTM_Pix said: There is an example of it here "beard hat" hahaha! :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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