GH3 Long Exposure Delays

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After about a year with the GH3, there's something that really bugs me: long exposure photos. Whenever I want to do a night-time timelapse, long exposures are key. With the GH3, any exposure longer than 1 second makes the display lag - sometimes, the image won't even appear until I press the shutter fully and take a photo. Even then, it takes the display a few seconds to catch up. With the Canon DSLR's, no matter what the shutter speed, the liveview is always real-time. It's the one thing I miss about my 60D.

This is extremely annoying, especially when I'm trying to frame up the shot for a timelapse - any subtle movements with the camera will not be recognized for a few seconds, so its next to impossible to frame a shot when using a shutter longer than one second.
The only work around for this, Ive discovered, is to just bump the shutter speed up to something like 1/25th, frame the shot as needed, lock the tripod/camera down, and change shutter back to desired speed. This is seriously annoying...

Has anyone else come across this problem?
 
Why not just create a custom scene file with an ISO of like 64,000 with a shutterspeed of 1/25 to use for framing purposes, then turn the dial back to M mode when you're ready to shoot?
 
Jive said:
Please turn off Constant Preview ​in the Custom menu. Thanks.
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Beat me to it. Contstant preview basically is "taking a picture" to display on your screen. You choose a 1 second exposure, it will take one second of simulated exposure to come up. Choose a 60 sec exposure? You got it, it will take 60 seconds to come up, because it's going to give you a look somewhat close to what you're actually going to see. Turn it off and it does it's normal refresh rate and will just turn up the gain/ISO after the aperture is up all the way.
 
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