Originally posted by Adam Would you like me to add a poll?
Thank you! If we could maybe even make it a temporary sticky somewhere so that we can get a better feel for the feelings of the community.
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Thanks for everyone responding so far...
I understand that there is a lot of competition.... yes... that is true anywhere and for almost anything. Just look at the DSLR market...that said I know absolutely zero about what technology is in the video world right now.
Now also look at social media and how many videos people are putting on youtube or whatever... So I don't think the trend for the need of video is going away anytime soon. I would venture to say that a lot of those are shot on DSLRs... Nikon and Canon... where people just set up a tripod and give it a go. The thing is just like with anything else people who know what they are doing can take stellar photos with cheap cameras and others can take awesome video with things like an iPhone...
The idea I would have in mind is to target it towards a semi professional (yet still affordable) video market. I have never engineered anything in my life but a DSLR ergonomically speaking might not be ideal. I mean it works but why not push the envelope? If they do away with video for the most part (or leave it as is) then that is one less thing to engineer into a stills camera. On the flip side if they don't have to worry about stills and just do a straight up semi professional model that I can put my 31mm on and film... heck man... going on a vacation and making real professional level stuff would make the overall pack relatively small.
For me I am not really talking handicam or something like that....
If anyone knows where the technology really is at in regards to video equipment (including on various levels of cameras) please do share...
I have seen everything from the handicam where you get bouncy pictures and so so video quality all the way to those big giant cameras that they shoot baseball games on..... what they use in movie studios I don't know...
Knowing that kind of information might be helpful...
But I am thinking that if they make one that is actually designed to be a video camera and that's all it does... but it performs about twice as good as a 5D Mark III or whatever....I think with existing technology they could probably make something like that happen using 35mm size sensors...
Curiosity really has the better of me here so the more I can learn about this stuff the better.