The status overly on the GH3's LCD display and viewfinder times out after a few seconds and goes away. This is a problem in some shooting situations. Has anyone found a way to disable this function? This would be a reasonable feature if it could be selected in the menu but it's a major pain for it to be permanently enabled. This wasn't a problem on the GH2. There are many improvements on the GH3 that I really like but this 'improvement' is a real pain.

I've researched this. Currently there is no way to disable it. The reason for it, is that the screen is OLED (which is known for burning in pixels if displayed for a long period of time). This 'feature' is designed so that there will be no burning in on the viewfinder.

Thanks, that explains a few things. I really don't like to be surprised like this.

Yeah I think it caught a few people by surprise. I would have just opted for a regular screen rather than OLED if they had to do something like this. To me though, it's not too big of a deal - though I see how it can affect others.

I've researched this. Currently there is no way to disable it. The reason for it, is that the screen is OLED (which is known for burning in pixels if displayed for a long period of time). This 'feature' is designed so that there will be no burning in on the viewfinder.

If this was a valid justification, then why give us an intervalometer? If I leave my camera on a tripod pointing at a fairly static scene, that image is going to be burned in.

It should be our choice!

Steve