Originally posted by monochrome K-3 can shoot better than decent video as it is. Have you seen benjikan's or Lauren's videos?
This endless argument is similar to the flash complaints and the AF complaints.
Hoya set Pentax back five years. They have to catch a moving target, and somebody wants everything right now. Ricoh has to choose what to do first, and second and third and so on. Corporate hasn't given them $100,000,000 and 50 new engineers to do everything as well as the best in each area - and they likely won't ever do.
Those who insist this is an easy fix and express puzzlement why Pentax doesn't just turn on IBIS and give a clean HDMI out and better codec's and 1080p/60 infer Pentax are inferior engineers or benighted businessmen (which they aren't).
So I have to ask, why do you buy cameras from a company that (you infer) has second-tier employees?
I suspect we'll have a video-tuned dSLR in relatively short order. We'll see how many people pre-order n
Yes, I have seen the videos. The K-3 video is OK, if you use a tripod, steadycam, jib, ronan etc. like Lauren. I'm not hauling any of that stuff up a mountain. K-5 still shoots better handheld video than the K-3 or the K-1. Period. A little soft is better than camera shake or jello.
I'm not sure where your attitude is coming from, but when I bought my last Pentax camera (the K-5), it had some fairly top-of-the-line video (aside from the lack of manual controls).
Because the K-1 appears to be a downgrade for video, I probably won't be buying it. I'm still holding out hope that Pentax (now that the rush to market is over) will add the option to the firmware to enable sensor-shift in video mode.
One of the attractive things about Fuji for me right now is their apparent commitment to continually improving the firmware of their cameras... Pentax could learn a thing or two there (the K-5 still has some rather big bugs that never got fixed, and that's certainly worth being cautious about going forward with Pentax).
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Originally posted by reh321 Are you qualified to engineer a modern camera? I have an undergraduate minor in Physics, including an "Intermediate Optics" course. In recent years I have been employed in high-tech software engineering projects, including digital radios, but I have zero competence in designing cameras, so I have to trust the expertise of Pentax engineers to design the best camera possible under the circumstances. Personally, I would greatly prefer MILC technology than "moving pictures", but neither of us got what we wanted. I believe it is totally unfair to hijack this thread by bringing up these issues. Away from here, I have seen more excitement about the K-1 than about anything else Pentax has done recently, so they must be doing some things right.
Apparently the point is simply that Pentax engineers would unable to put all the things you list in this section, plus "moving pictures" into the camera under the limits they were given (size, weight, price point, time etc), so somethings did have to go, including on-board flash and "moving pictures". No one camera is going to have everything, so decisions have to be made. They have made theirs, and now we'll have to make ours.
Ok, Dad.
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Originally posted by bobmaxja Video in a DSLR is an choice not a key feature. I do not belive any 36MP and up in FF is good at video.
I think all the A7RII shooters out there would disagree with you.