Originally posted by kadajawi Adam, it works great for very prolongued use in my K-5, with literally hundreds of hours of use, sometimes very bumpy.
I think Pentax may not have realized how little we care about audio, if the video is good. That's the point that needs to be gotten across.
Canon and Nikon would wet their pants if the K-1 had that feature set, even Sony would get worried.
By bumpy I meant that the sensor keeps hitting the edge every second or two.
Pixel Shift Resolution is neat, but for a rather limited audience only. First of all you need to have a motive that is THAT still. Then you need to have a tripod that is really strong and stable. And THEN you need to actually have the need for more than 36 MP/shoot stuff that confuses the hell out of the Bayer pattern. I have 16 MP, and that's enough for what I do pretty much most of the time, and the K-1 has 36 MP, soooooo it's so far ahead of what I need (even for commercial uses) that pixel shift is pointless for me.
While good video functionality also only appeals to a niche, I wouldn't be surprised if that niche is at least as big. Plus video SR lends to flashy and cool ads that can even go viral, the camera may be used by a couple of users whose work is seen by many, and when they read it was a Pentax...
Finally, SR is a battle they can win. All the reasons I've heard... heating up the sensor, maybe they mean higher noise as in high ISO, higher wear, ... all those things can be communicated with customers/potential users, and while some would say ok, I'll skip the feature, there'll be enough who like it regardless. What is the harm in offering the option (as long as it works somewhat...), unless they need to invest a lot in activating it? IIRC the K-1 had SR working with a video feed, it appeared that way when I tried the K-1 in live view. So the algorithm is there.
@Adam: It would be awesome if the next time you talk to someone from Pentax, especially in an interview situation, you could ask them about users who use external microphones and record in camera, or those who use external microphones and external recorders
Or perhaps show them a clip of how bad the Movie SR performs, even on the K-1, and ask for comment.