Originally posted by TaoMaas I showed this to our other videographer yesterday. He went home and ordered one last night.
My point is that it's basically a $100 P&S camera. So that makes the video cost, what?.....$150? That's not much.
for the money you wouldn't care about putting it into shots where it could get broken- and i've seen videos of it fall of moving cars are still work
underwater too
and the size means it's not a hassle for anyone to actually wear it, trying to get someone to 'wear' a large/bulky cam is often very tricky
and because it's a fish eye it doesn't look weird having no depth of field- normal/telephoto shots done with a P&S with no depth of field look like crap, but because the field of view is so large it doesn't look 'wrong' at all, on an SLR shooting with a 11mm 2.8 you'd barely get depth of field
and I could use this as my facebook/party stills camera, 5mp is more than enough for that, and fish eye's always take interesting stills
it's such good value for money, and you can just lay it down somewhere and know (because of the depth of field and the FOV) you will absolutely get the shot, it may not be a pretty shot but it's useable
shame they charge £300 for it in the Uk, that's nearly double the price...
I do hope pentax get 60fps into their next cam
but it's probably easier/cheaper to build a 720p 60fps cam from scratch rather than try to shoehorn it into an existing cam and adapt the sensor, I don't really know though
I really need better lenses first, so a k7 priced body would appeal to me less than a kx priced body- then spend a coulple of £100 on manual focus pentax m's
canon 550d is looking tempting though, although lenses are a stinger- although I read you can get an adaptor for pentax K, which might be the best of both worlds- although still no IS unless I want to spend insane amounts of money, and canon lenses (except for L series) are horrible to manual focus
GH1 is an option, but footage looks noisy at iso 1600+, so only one stop better than my current cam), extra crop factor is an issue and the codec has some serious problems
movable screen though, and lens flexibility- could invest in the pentax 50-135 and it would become a lot more telephoto (which is a plus)
hmm