From: Bruce Walker
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 2:51 PM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote:
From: William Robb
On 27/08/2012 8:58 AM, Steven Desjardins wrote:
I rarely watch videos. They take too long fro the payoff. The still
mode will endure simply because there's no real reason to remove it,
just as many cameras now clearly aimed at still photographers have
video. It's just too easy to leave this capability in the
electronics. Now, it is possible that cameras will start to be
optimized for video, and that would be a real change.
In our own brand, the K-01 is already there. Removing the viewfinder
removed a lot of it's optimization for still photography in favour of
video.
The lack of a decent microphone and no jack is kinda stupid (at least I
don't think the K-01 has a mic jack), but this is rather typical of
Pentax not quite getting things right most of the time.
Maybe they're aiming it at the "professional" video production market
where the audio is recorded separately. The K-01 is pretty much the camera I
expected the DSLR video trend would lead to - box with a sensor & SLR lens
mount.
John, I think you were expecting this then: small box, all sensor, lens mount:
http://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/blackmagiccinemacamera/
It looks like a winner to me. Same price as the D800 / 5D, but
designed for cinema.
Yeah, that's the same concept except it looks like it will take actual
CINE lenses.
When DSLR video first came out, the big deal as far as I understand it
was the "look" you got from shooting with DSLR lenses & the DSLR sensor.
To shoot video, you had to lock the mirror up and the view finder became
surplus.
It occurred to me that if you're producing a camera primarily intended
for video, why not remove the unneeded mirror mechanism, pentaprism &
viewfinder, leaving just the box containing the sensor & the lens mount
for the slr/dslr lenses.
When I was in school we had a class on video production, a very basic
intro to how to shoot & record sound; edit in Final Cut Pro and export
to CD/DVD with iMovie to get professional looking menus.
I should probably reemphasize *VERY* basic.
Even though we used video cameras rather than dslr's, we were taught to
record the audio separately to ensure we got good quality sound. Once
the sound was edited, the video was edited to fit the soundtrack.
Which is why I don't find the lack of a microphone jack on the K-01 so
appalling.
Actually, I was expecting Canon to come up with something like this,
since the school brought in as a guest lecturer a guy from Saturday
Night Live who was pioneering in the field & he was using all Canon
equipment.
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