GH5 Panasonic Lumix gh5 and the Terrible External Monitor lag

tokun1

tokun1

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Hello Group,


I just purchased a new Panasonic Lumix GH5, it arrived recently and I just plugged in my newer 7" Lilliput Full 1080 HD monitor and I'm surprised to experience this awful lag of the monitor when panning, tilting, or focusing. Has anyone else experience this issue?...if so, what is the solution? This makes it impossible to use on the go, it may work to help set up static shots, interviews etc, but I can't move around it will drive a shooter crazy!

Thanks for any advise with this issue!

-Tony
 
GH4 and GH5 have lag when monitoring out via HDMI. It's the worst at 24hz system frequency (24p). It's tolerable at 59.94 system frequency(30p). No way around it unfortunately.
 
I researched and somewhere mentioned that the Atomas Ninja does not lag, not sure if that's true?...I take it another monitor like the Smallhd no good either?...This is a major Bummer, might have considered purchasing another brand of DSLR if I knew. Thanks for your reply!
 
tokun1 said:
I researched and somewhere mentioned that the Atomas Ninja does not lag, not sure if that's true?...I take it another monitor like the Smallhd no good either?...This is a major Bummer, might have considered purchasing another brand of DSLR if I knew. Thanks for your reply!
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No, not true. Some monitors might have MORE lag added on top of the lag, but not none. I thought it would bother me more than it does in regular usage but it doesn't that much.
 
It's a bummer. As mentioned higher end monitors have less latency. The GH5 is better than the GH4. That drove me crazy. I was shooting interviews and the producer was looking at the monitor and asked me if my camera is okay. I had to assure her it was. I was hoping the GH5 would be better and it is but still worse than Sony cameras. Add in a cheaper monitor and it's frustrating.
 
buggz said:
Wow, didn't realize this.
Wonder if you can rent before buying to try it out.
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If you are going to be working mostly at 24p it's a serious consideration. If you are going to work at 30p, 60p, or 50p the lag is tolerable and not much worse than other cameras. Panasonic knows about the issue but they say it's not fixable.
 
First time I heard about this. For run'n gun documentaries is the lag going to be an issue? Might be the final reason to go with Sony.
 
goodgoings said:
First time I heard about this. For run'n gun documentaries is the lag going to be an issue? Might be the final reason to go with Sony.
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For run and gun, I presume you'll be working hand-held. For hand held I use a shoulder mount with an LCD loupe instead of an HDMI monitor.
 
...Just out of curiosity, does recording with an external recorder and NOT recording internally change the monitor lag ?
 
TheDingo said:
...Just out of curiosity, does recording with an external recorder and NOT recording internally change the monitor lag ?
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Never tried...but I doubt it, since the lag is there on my HDMI monitor wether I'm recording or not. Only thing that changes the lag is changing the system frequency. Honestly, the image lag doesn't bother me as much as the audio lag. If close to the talent you get an annoying echo. You can switch to realtime audio in the setting, but then the audio will be out of sync with the HDMI monitor.
 
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