Originally posted by texandrews I'm also watching this development closely. Good video (and that touch screen, very helpful in video) in my Pentax gear is the missing link. If this has been implemented properly, then this could serve me in my job.
I hope there's an option to disable the touch screen too - In live view, it can be great for point and drag to control focus, but in OVF mode, focus by nose will be a pain in the a,...
Originally posted by ramseybuckeye And what form of image stabilization be used? I missed it in the specs or it's not there.
Probably still the MovieSR, so we'll all turn that off.
Originally posted by roberrl But .... Pentax don't have video as a priority.
4K is probably the minimum they can get away with.
Good AF during video and mechanical stabilisation may well be possible with the technology under the covers but I see nothing in the specs.
I wish and hope that I'm wrong ... time will tell
The AF is already Good Enough, if there's enough light, has been for ages. No doubt it'll need to be back-button-AF during shooting, which newer lenses should do smoothly, but the screw drive won't, or at least, will do AF, just noisily enough to be heard on an external audio recorder.
True mechanical IBIS, in truth, they could have done it with a Firmware update years ago, all they need to do is to hook in the video side of things to the same subroutines that are already there and in use for Stills use. Anyone can check in their camera, to switch the IBIS for stills to 'always on' instead of 'only on when shutter pressed', then go to Live View for Stills, bingo, IBIS visible on the LCD,.. which is displaying video,...
Any reason Pentax give for not activating it, is B.S.
Originally posted by Enrique S Toso Why?? Why not h.265 10bit?? Why not to make a gamma curve like everybody else?? they are 4 years late and not giving even a solid gamma curve, just a ¨flat¨ profile.
Im out...ill keep my K3 for timelapses, but Im selling the rest of the gear and getting a Xt4.
Arrrrr, what? The "Muted" profile is pretty close to Log anyway, and the way Pentax have always ignored the IRE limits, means you always have more stops worth of information to play with then is displayed on the LCD or when first opening a video file.
IIRC from my own tests, instead of clipping at 0 and 100 IRE, Pentax encodes from -15 IRE to +125 IRE
If Pentax had given us 4K 2 or 3 years ago, with the 13 stops or more of dynamic range available across the model range, and clean-feed HDMI, there would already be a slew of Short Films, Music Video, Adverts, Fashion Pieces and probably even Feature Films shot on them.
We'll leave the whole Log vs Linear debate for another time
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