Why video on DSLR matters
Following several online photography forums, I’ve been flabbergasted by the general attitude towards the new emerging video features of the DSLR cameras such as Canon 5D Mk II, Pentax K7 and Nikon D90 and D300s. There seem to a lot of disdain, some carefully positive comments (“it doesn’t hurt”) and very little exuberance. As I tend towards the exuberance, I find this very odd, to tell you the truth.
As a person who recently (early this year) bought a video camera, and during that time got familiar with lots of video forums, I was expecting a totally different welcome for the video features in the new Pentax K7 from what I saw. I will try to answer to some criticism commonly thrown around in the photography forums. Finally, I will speculate about the reasons for this odd attitude towards Video-on-DSLR.
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