Originally posted by stevebrot I would like to see Lauren do an article on leveraging Pentax video covering both the strong and the weak points of the system and how to make it all work together. Notes on PP, editing tools, and final video format would be appreciated too.
Please, Lauren! Please!
Steve
(...really would like to see more positive video contributions...)
I second that.
I'm not Lauren, but maybe I may write a few things too:
The weak points would, for cameras after the K-5 be no stabilisation, unless you use one of the very rare stabilised lenses for Pentax, so the solution is SR off + tripods, sliders, jibs, glidecams, ... K-5 and earlier are much more forgiving with SR on.
Codec is another weak point after the K-5, so too much movement, too much detail isn't good. Also turn down the sharpening... it adds detail that needs to be compressed and takes away valuable space from the actual content. This is also advisable for the K-5 and previous cameras... try to make things easy for the encoder. I like a muted profile with turned down saturation... I can always add saturation later, but I want to avoid that the colors are "tilting".
Lock down exposure while shooting, the AE-L button does that. That way a guy walking past in a black shirt won't make the exposure change. Personally I also fix the white balance (it would be neat to have an unused button reassigned to WB-L... AE-L, but for white balance, and it only may go away if you press the button again).