Originally posted by BrianR Since getting a k5iis, I've tried video once to see if it worked and would be good enough for what I wanted. It easily surpasses my very limited video plans and abilities. I have no other device that shoots anything even half-decent so I'm happy it's there just in case I remember to use it.
Interesting to revisit my view 5 years later. Still using the k5iis, but I have a couple more devices that are video capable (Nikon J1 and a smartphone). I still have limited video skills, but I have been using video more and more to record little nature events. These are not terribly exciting or particularly well done, but it's convenient to be able to grab quick videos with the stills cameras.
This is from my J1, it's a bucket of gypsy moth pupa writhing around. I have photos showing how articulated the pupa are, I don't think it's possible to do the writhing mass justice with a still photo:
A wee butterfly flapping in the wind, it was the flickering iridescence that I think made a video worthwhile:
This one's even duller (and not worth watching the full 5 minutes), but it served as data for a slit-scan experiment:
And the result, which I thought was a neat way to represent a changing event in a 2-d image. For this sort of thing I'd love to have higher resolution video, but I'm not making anything worthwhile enough to get a 4k video camera. If it happens to be built into the next device I get, that'd be swell
I think this was the first time I actually used the video mode for something (and not just a test to see if it worked). It's only a few seconds, and is exactly what the title says it is.