steve,
Originally posted by stevebrot [*]I am surprised that you are recording sound for the music videos live and that the cameras are louder than the music!
It is solo harpsichord. This is not a very loud instrument. And the cameras are very close to it, at different angles.
The K-30 shutter going off is very audible. Less so when I record piano.
Quote: [*]Your takes are longer than 25 minutes? Amazing...
That's because I'm not a professional musician. I usually record for a very long time (hours) before I get a good take.
I do multiple takes in a row. And it's very unnerving if the shutter goes off in the middle of a good one. It's not just the sound but the distraction.
Synchronizing the multiple camera audio in software is a bit of a pain, so I prefer to keep the number of clips to synchronize to a minimum.
That means running all the cameras as long as possible.
I have gotten better software for synchronizing multiple video clips more recently, though. So using the remote to start/stop the Pentax camera may be a more viable option now than it was a couple years ago.
Quote: I suggest you buy another EOS Rebel. They are cheap and apparently meet your needs.
I would prefer not to. I own only one Canon lens - a stabilized Tamron 18-270 which was expensive. I don't really want to own more Canon stuff.
I have a much larger investment in Pentax lenses. I know it's possible to use Pentax lenses on Canon, and I have tried, but the PK to Canon adapter I bought is very flimsy - the PK lenses look like they could fall off, so not a good option. And of course features like AF don't work with it.
Quote: FWIW, I write software for a living and accurate/stable spec implementations are not "bugs", regardless of how clumsy they might be. Implementations that fail or are inconsistent or which are not stable or which are not to spec...those are bugs.
I also write software for a living. I'm sure you have implemented "features" before that some of your users considered to be bugs, or annoyances.
Anyway, in this case, the Pentax behavior is quite inconsistent, reportedly firing off the shutter with some lenses at some apertures, and not others.
That's definitely not documented anywhere in the user manual. Hard to call it a feature. Definitely strange behavior.
Maybe it's an undocumented "feature", but either way, it's annoying to me.
Some people may want the shutter to fire to notify them that the video recording stopped. For other situations like mine, it's undesirable.
Sounds like a good candidate for a camera setting.
---------- Post added 02-10-15 at 05:19 PM ----------
Originally posted by stevebrot That is a fair assumption, though I am not going to go through the trouble to test it. When I do video, my takes are generally 10 minutes or shorter and the current K-3 shutter behavior is not an issue.
Edit: I did test it and it works.
Steve
Thanks. When you said, it works - you meant the K-3 shutter didn't fire automatically when the recording stopped ?
---------- Post added 02-10-15 at 05:22 PM ----------
Originally posted by stevebrot It occurred to me that you may have forgotten that video on the K-3 is not a subset of Live View. The two are completely separate. Video mode is entered by means of the dedicated stills/movie switch and is available from both regular still photo mode and live view. If the camera "goes to sleep" in video mode, it is still in video mode when you wake it up and remains in video mode until the video switch is returned to the stills photo position.
Well, not so much forgotten as the fact that I don't own a K-3 and have never seen one in person.
On my K-30, I can turn on Live view from any of the stills mode by pressing the live view button.
But to do a video recording, I have to set the mode dial to "video". At that point, the camera shows the image on the LCD rather than the optical viewfinder, ie.it is in "live view".