Originally posted by LaurenOE Oh yes...in many ways I liked the video from the K5 much better...I liked the mjpeg a bit more. I did quite a few shoots with my K5, and as long as I was shooting outside, and not in direct sun, the K5 could maintain, and not overheat. Unfortunately, my blood ran cold a few times when it *did* over heat.
I have several old videos on my YouTube channel with the K5.
Maybe I need to revisit them, re-render them and showcase them too.
I use Vimeo these days, so the YouTube stuff is old/outdated - mostly rendered in 480p
I'm curious about your overheating. Apart from hot pixels, which apparently can be fixed by switching to live view in user mode and then go to video (?), I didn't see any negative side effects. I couldn't get my camera to overheat, no matter how long I shot. It is noisy though at low light.
25 fps at 1080p is an issue with the K-5, the other gear I have access to is capable of doing 1080/25p, but it's not optimal.
@steve: I don't think DSLR video should be seen as a thing where you just point the camera in one direction and press record and let the camera do the rest. That's a job for camcorders. DSLRs are meant for more planned shoots, but that doesn't exclude handheld IMHO. Besides, the SR can also help when shooting on a shoulder rig. Or maybe I understood you wrong... there just should be no expectation of getting AF. It would require massive changes and big investments, so while it would be neat, it's just not that important.
A modern Pentax, will a flatter image profile, SR and MJPEG, plus pixel binning, would be wonderful. And we are talking about relatively trivial tech here. SR? Got that. 25x 2 MP JPEGs? Doesn't sound too hard, but maybe it is. Flatter image profile shouldn't be too big a deal either (though a proper LOG style flat profile may indeed be hard).
When shooting events, maybe short interviews at events, I might not even use the shoulder rig. I'm quite short, and going completely handheld gives me greater freedom in choosing the right angle.
To me it seems like Pentax is pulling punches in an attempt to offer cameras that beginners can use. No SR, because it screws up audio and their users would never use external recording (why the mic and headphone jack, though?). No high bitrates, because long recordings are more important than highest possible quality. And that seems to be a mistake. The engineering is not the issue, it's the mindset, and who Pentax believes their customers are.