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I believe that Canon etc offered the HD option originally for news stills photographers to meet the demands of news organisations like Reuters to shot video for their web pages without also sending out a video crew, which is why the cameras came out with only 30p and the auto controls.
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Brian, to a T you have described it exactly the way I heard it too.
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Anyway, I absolutely love my 5D2, and as primarily a photographer, I'd never give up my FF just because of the wide angles. Not to say I wouldn't own a cropped body as a second, I would, and I do right now, so the 7D is actually looking mighty impressive to me at this point. |
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The so called film makers market today is rapidly growing as no one wants to shoot video-ish looking videos anymore. Not even a wedding videographer. Now the borderline between amateur and pro is not the beach panning style anymore but the existence or lack of DOF and the PQ that only a good lens can deliver. |
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Anybody see any information on file size and file size limits? I'm sure hoping I can record a longer sequence than 12-14 minutes or this all this new features are going to mean squat.
I ordered one today and would sell my GH1 which is my B cam, if I thought the file size limitation had been worked out. Hope I missed it, but haven't read anything about it so far. Will be disappointed if the first reports of no manual audio settings are true. Will also be disappointed if I can't record 30-60 minutes or more for one file. Am already disappointed that the LCD is fixed. Keeping my fingers crossed that there are more video settings to what they announced, but knowing Canon, I won't hold my breath. Have the donations started to get T Hudson a 7D? |
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Just spent some more time on the Canon specs and I am not feeling full HDMI live out either. Still not the complete package. Maybe Nikon will bring it. |
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If you're selling what is supposed to be a professional still camera system it is a market. Their demands have pushed the manufacture of fast telephoto lenses and other developments. The stills camera manufacturers will have seen that newspapers would have the same need for their web sites. Canon and Nikon are in competition and high end non-professionals also love having that pro kit, so increasing the production run. People should bear in mind that most video cameras rarely, if ever have a 35mm adapter fitted. |
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I don't agree that the vast majority of users for this camera are photographers.
With all due respect, please show we another DSRL camera that didn't have HD video features and cost over $2500 that was sold out for 9 solid months. Nov-Sept here in the states. They are still hard to get. I do not have any knowledge of the percentage of 5D mkII users whom bought this camera for HD purposes as their primary usage. However, my gut feeling is that there are as many video people using this camera as photographers. My opinion is subjective. More a gut feeling. Does anyone have any objective information to shed light on this? |
Sorry Jim, but I'll have to disagree with you.
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