Originally posted by Owltown I also cannot understand the obsession manufacturers have with including video capability in still cameras. If I want to shoot video, I'll use a dedicated video camera.
A dedicated video camera with similar potential would cost much, much more than a DSLR. The advantage of doing video with a DSLR is access to fast lenses and control of aperture (and manual focus, although for some reason people seem to obsess about AF capabilities). For quick movies, you are right that a video camera would be easier to use, but for dedicated people, they can do things with DSLRs that are not achievable with plain video cameras. jogiba, who might be a bit upset with me lately and thinks that I discard the K-01 for having video features, has some great samples of video captured with a DSLR.
Also, for the rest of us that don't care about video, the availability of video comes at very little extra cost. Cameras would be even costlier if companies would split their lines into models with and without video and would have to develop them separately.