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Damn you! Now I feel like i'm being challenged lol but thanksIf they're as good as your still pictures, I'll look forward to them!!
DSLR - where next?
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And I think this is the bottom line, making some features like high speed AF in video will take significant R&D time and money and will undoubtedly lead to major changes in camera design. This clearly should not be the case.
I will say again, Nikon/Canon should release a dedicated body for video if they think there is market
There will never be the '£1k less option', because it doesn't cost £1k to include in the first place!!
They won't do the with/without option either I don't think, because that would involve added production schedule complexity and increase costs.
Good DSLR's will always be around, it's just that some of them will have HD video capability/GPS modules/Wireless Broadband/whatever capability. At their heart will always be the ability to take great pictures...
But a sensor designed for video is clearly not the same as one designed for still pictures. Ever taking a long exposure with a lens cap on to see the amp noise? Something you really don't want in video modes.
As fr the cost of things. The reason Nikon limits the videos to 5 minutes is that additionally licensing and tax is required for longer videos. Similarly, using more complex encoding algorithms for the video will require new dedicated encoding chips (the motion-jpeg is just an offshoot of the jpeg engine).
Yes, I can see myself using video in the future. But this doesn't change the fact that I don't really want video in the more pro cameras, or at least not such that it delays other improvments.
I think that's the point though DP, they aren't designing DSLR sensors to be primarily video sensors, but they are sufficiently similar that you can get some additonal functionality for 'free', which is presumably why they don't charge much of a premium for it?
I don't see DSLR's taking over from dedicated HD Video cameras, they're the wrong shape for a start!
HD Video is just a bit of sizzle to go with the sausage!!
hehehehehe.... mumuhaha what have I started... >:-]
For me the crux of it, is that Video and Photography are 2 totally different things. I just get the impression (and its maybe a false one) that the major camera makers will be trying to merge the 2 at all levels of production.. But to me video in pro DSLRs doesn't make sense, even as a non-pro, I don't have any target audience for videos whatsoever - it sounds impressive, its like someone giving me some sort of l33t pro Imax video camera - what on earth am I going to do with it? apart from mess around and put things on youtube?
For me the crux of it, is that Video and Photography are 2 totally different things. I just get the impression (and its maybe a false one) that the major camera makers will be trying to merge the 2 at all levels of production.. But to me video in pro DSLRs doesn't make sense, even as a non-pro, I don't have any target audience for videos whatsoever - it sounds impressive, its like someone giving me some sort of l33t pro Imax video camera - what on earth am I going to do with it? apart from mess around and put things on youtube?
Damn, so if my camera didn't have video they would have given me £600?! I wish I had known this earlier
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The season 6 finale of House MD was shot on 5D MKII's, watch it and you'll see how good it can be
A friend of mine at uni doing photojournalism informs me war reporters love them too, and it means they only have to lump the SLR around instead of carrying another dedicated video camera
As the OP said they're not exactly Flip HD competition, but they're not supposed to be
A friend of mine at uni doing photojournalism informs me war reporters love them too, and it means they only have to lump the SLR around instead of carrying another dedicated video camera
As the OP said they're not exactly Flip HD competition, but they're not supposed to be
I could make a new topic but it would have the same detail surely ? Now i know where your comment was from in Motors, but seriously i misread the year, my apologies.
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Just thought I'd pop back in this thread to say...I'm actually considering buying a 5DMKII to play with video whilst I wait for Nikon to get their act together, as I'm getting the video bug
At least it was longer than a year though...just lol