Thanks! That makes total sense - I'm just trying to get to grips with it myself and have realised it's going to be a pretty heavy learning curve ha

I will, but not until I'm 100% confident I know what I'm talking about. It's a big topic with some degree of controversy so I need to ensure I can back up anything I say before I open my mouth ;-) But I do know for sure that you need to expose differently!

Hi Joseph, thanks a bunch, that totally worked!

Hmm… most LUMIX cameras have a "shoot w/o lens" option that you need to enable but the GH5 doesn't seem to have that — meaning it's always on. Do this… take off your lens, open the menu, go to MOTION PICTURE menu (the video camera-only icon, not the video camera with the M icon), pg 3/4, STABILIZER, then set the focal length. Turn the camera off and back on, and you should get a message saying "current focal length setting: xxmm, do you want to change". If you see that now, then the camera is working properly. It doesn't sense a lens so assumes you have something manual on there. If you then put your metabones back on and you DON'T get that message, then that tells me that the camera is seeing the adapter and knows what lens is on it — at least that'd be my interpretation. I don't have one here myself to test though, sorry. I'd contact Metabones to see what they say if it doesn't seem to be working right. Panasonic won't offer support with this since it's not their product.

+Swing Away Every patreon setup is based on contribution levels. Something extra for each level higher. Having exclusive Q&A time becomes pretty non-valuable if there's a ton of people vying for a few seconds of time. By keeping it limited to a higher contribution level, you're essentially paying for some near 1:1 time. That's the value add of contributing a little more.

I turned everything off in economy mode and when set to luminance "1" it dims after 30 sec when set to "2" it doesn't. As Adrian said So I guess it still needs to be fixed in firmware

so everyone says to set monitor setting to mode 1 but this dims after 30 seconds but discovered p238 in manual it says mode 1 to make monitor brighter, mode 2 to set monitor to standard brightness and it say monitor automatically returns to standard brightness if no operations performed for 30 seconds in mode 1 . it will light up briefly again with button or touch operation. so is mode 2 the standard setting to rely on then ? weird as you showed it not dimming in mode 1

Thanks for confirming about the HDMI. That is odd. I bet it is some other setting somewhere that seems unrelated that is causing it. Feels like I'm using a Sony! They're so picky!

+Bart Johnson Productions I definitely did NOT have it plugged into HDMI when testing this morning. So odd. Someone else commented about it with some other thoughts I need to follow on later. Crazy that this is so complicated!

I talked with Sully to see if he knew of a solution and this is what we found out. Turning everything in Economy to OFF and then using Monitor setting 1* still causes the screen to dim after 30 seconds of inactivity. However, setting the Monitor setting to 2* seems to hold its brightness without ever dimming. Unfortunately setting 2* is dimmer than setting 1*! We think the fact that you are outputting over HDMI might cause the camera to be holding its brightness on setting 1*. Have you tried it with your current settings without the HDMI plugged in and been able to keep the screen from dimming on setting 1*? If so, you seem to have the magic touch and we will dig deeper!

Okay... I'm ready! But where is the proof? :)

Actually I'm not going to do this in today's video, because I have no other good Q's to A today, and I don't really want to sit there pontificating while I wait for the camera to NOT shut down. So I'll record a video just for you and upload that separately. Stand by.

You don't believe me? ;-) No problem… I'll do it live in the next Q&A: https://youtu.be/gCtsZa4NMZU on PhotoJoseph‘s Photo Moment 2017-05-30 (Tuesday because Monday is a holiday)

+White In Revery I'll dive into this again. I stopped because one commentor was being so rude and demanding about it that I walked away. But I will happily test and discuss this again.

So based off the manual it should be dimming at 30sec correct? If so, they need to change that in a future firmware update as that is annoying. Also, Joseph, you mentioned it doesn't dim for you which is driving us nuts with how you are doing that when the manual says it is supposed to dim. The only other thing I can think of is I use manual lenses instead of auto lenses and maybe the auto feature is keeping it bright perhaps? Any further help Joseph would be amazing!