Originally posted by todd I really enjoyed those. How dare you! Very nice work.
Looked like it was a pretty warm bath for that momma bear.
The little I have done shows me that to get decent results requires a serious commitment. The K3 function is basic, better than the K5 in all but SR. I work very hard to get nice sharp shots of wildlife, and I succeed from time to time in getting something I'm proud of. To reach that same standard in video I frankly don't know how I would go about it. Maybe 4k, very likely some kind of dampened panning head or gimbal stabilization gizmo, plus the serious effort in software for finish. Plus a bunch of lenses, I don't even know where to start with that.
This is complex and demanding stuff. To pull off a happenstance shot is almost impossible. A body designed for video would be a different body, as are the lenses. Serious videographers don't use autofocus, they have tape measures and graduated marks on the lenses. They plan the shot like a military campaign.
A friend has the Canon apsc , 7d or 70d, not sure of the model. I think his lenses are stabilized, not sure. He gets decent stuff, but you see the AF hunting. It is supposedly so much more advanced than the K3, and probably is, but it is still inadequate.
An evf is essential for video, but a compromise for the stills shooting I do.
So Pentax has produced a body whose goal is to be superb for stills, and has a functional video capability. The image resources interview suggested that they may get a clean HDMI output in a later firmware if there is demand. If they want to blow up the market they would do a medium format with nicely implemented video. Otherwise smaller sensors seem to be the way to go, along with all the mirrorless goodies. I suspect they have some people in dark rooms beating away on these challenges.