Originally posted by btnapa You missed the point totally. My point was that Fuji listened to its users and improved the cameras. Pentax did not. Personally I would not get the Fuji either, and not because it is missing shake reduction. If I made a move towards a 4K video capable camera, it would be the Sony A6500.
I hope Pentax fixes the video issue and stops people from migrating to other brands for a feature that people are increasingly forced to deal with. I have been shooting stills for a long time and never been asked by my clients for video. Now they are asking me to do videos too. And as you know the new craze is 4K. Shooting Pentax, I do not have that option.
I do not want to abandon Pentax because I have a superior camera in my K1. So I am forced to completely switch or add a second set of bodies and lenses from another brand to deliver 4K video. That is an expense which would be greatly reduced by a single brand solution. It is a balancing act as to who to pick for a single brand. No one brand is perfect but then there are brands that offer the most bang for the buck and overall features. Unfortunately Pentax is not it anymore.
Frankly I do not care much about video in my cameras. However, If I do not offer 4K video capability, my clients go to someone who does. It is that simple.
Canon 5D Mk III and Nikon D750/810 users would dominate the wedding industry, but they're only capable of HD as well.
You own more than one lens, right, Btnapa, because they do different things?
And as a pro, you would own more than one body, too.
Best practice would say, buy a video camera. It's the tool for the job. You'd get a GH5 or Red to go with your stills shooting. That's a business case you construct for yourself.
Me, I'll just use my phone for 4k casual shooting. I'm like you. As posts in this forum have shown in the past, and as Ricoh seems to indicate in its marketing of stills quality, most Pentaxians don't care for video at all. We're not alone.
Now, video capability comes not from software, which is easy, but the underlying hardware. The older HD encoder chipsets are proven and cheap, so that's why the K-1 is as affordable as it is.
I did not want the K-1 to cost one more cent than it had to, or be delayed in release for one more day than it had to, to incorporate a feature for the benefit of a wedding videographer who doesn't want to buy and pack an extra camera.
Of course, the 4k video motherboards will naturally become cheaper and will make their way into all cameras (including Ricoh's) as 1080 ones did, so this will eventually become a moot point.
The Fujitsu Milbeaut chipset used by Nikon, Pentax, Leica and Sigma only recently released a 4k capable version, which is in the Nikon D5 and D500 launched last year. That chipset will come down in price.