Originally posted by JimDickinson Lauren - beautiful video - thanks for the inspiration! Was your K-5 hand held when you shot those scenes? And how did you achieve that great depth of field and solid focus?
I have had my K-5 for only three days now and I just started shooting with it last night. No videos yet, but I should be trying that here in the next couple of days. I was on the fence for a long time and the D7000 was obviously one of my main alternatives. I hesitated because of the reported problems with the K-5, but I am starting to suspect that this machine is indeed a keeper. When I put it down a few minutes ago I thought - even if I have problems with this camera and have to send it in for service, I want to keep this camera for a really long time. So much to learn and so much to explore!
Thanks.
I don't want to thread-jack, but this is the setup I used for many of the shots
As a tool, and in keeping with this thread as to what is a better choice, when the camera is on the slider, it is VERY easy to turn the camera on and off with the Pentax remote cable. When we placed my husband's D7000 on the slider, you had to touch the camera and slide it at the same time. It was very awkward.
A TOTAL deal breaker in terms of ease of use.
Also, the setup in the above image, and in the videos, many times I am sitting low on the stool you see in the picture above. I have to be able to quickly take lenses off and on. Sometimes I am sitting in a field with sheep-sh*t, and the Pentax is easier to work with in extreme environments.
As for focus, because of the awesome range of sensitivity, the K5 can make great video in manual aperature mode so that depth of field can be maintained. The K5 has both the ability to set the aperature in video or make it auto. Either way, you can move the action dials to compensate for the sensitiviy independant of the aperature.
Obvliously I have a ton of photographs to go with the videos I take.
Sadly, because the K5 is so good at video, I have no more space in my camera bag for my 645 film camera.
I can't go out and NOT take video with the K5.