Shots on the Rig look good Lauren.
Are you still able to submit work at 720p? I absolutely need the 1080p25 and 1080p24 to be perfect, but I'm still waiting for Pentax-Ricoh to come out with firmware that makes the HDMI output recordable.
I'd buy a K-3 tomorrow if the HDMI worked properly, even without Sensor Shift SR, simply because I could use all my lenses and record to my Atomos Shogun.
No samples yet to see if the K-1 has it's HDMI as ballsed up as the K-01 and K-3,...
I was looking at the a6300, until I saw the rolling shutter skew - it's on par with the BMPCC.
Upside Down on a Jib Shot,.... he he he, thought I was the only one who pulled that - upside down on a slider is great for Star Wars 'Trench Run' shots,...
Zoom H6,... nice, but the Tascam's have better pre-amps
Originally posted by LaurenOE Nah..it's just that it gets a bit frustrating when people say things like "can't be done". Or Pentax is not used in so and so way. Or Pentaxians don't care about so and so. I don't fit the demographic that Ricoh is looking for, when they ask Pentaxians questions. It doesn't phase me as long as they keep making tools that make money for me. I'm a bona-fide-hardcore user of Pentax products. People discount me all the time. It's the story of my life.
You, preacher, me, choir.
I get good video and good photos out of my K-01, to the point people are often suprised, especially when they find out a comparable Pentax is often half the price they paid for their Canikons - none of us Pentax Cinematographers will deny Pentax Cameras take GREAT stills.
It's just bloody disappointing they keep screwing over the Video Firmware as 'not a priority'.... One wonders, does anyone at Ricoh-Pentax ever have to explain to shareholders why they loose sales in the video market?
They do some stuff really well - like retaining the full dynamic range in the video (Canon clips about 3 stops out from the photos DR) - and then over-compress the footage...
They had great performing Sensor Shift in Video nearly a whole Decade ahead of the rest, and then turned it off for poor decided reasons - they could add a massive number of same by just turning it back on now, and marketing it as a feature the rest are just catching up to.
Originally posted by LaurenOE The K5 makes some beautiful video too! It gets a little hot, but I love the video quality from the K5.
I finally got to see the over-temp warning on my K-01 about two weeks ago.
40 deg day (about 105 for the non-metric), in direct sunlight, mid afternoon, camera in the sunlight while talent were shaded,.... and the little temp gauge symbol came on.
First time ever! Only had the K-01 something like three or four years....
The 5D2 we were doing the wide angle with had shut down about an hour earlier....