video capability on DSLRs

[MICKEY88]

check this out....very interesting...

http://www.photographybay.com/2008/02/17/dslr-movie-mode-patent/

 

[mabas9395]

Gadgets that try to do too many things at once usually end up not doing any of them particularly well, at least in the early stages.

But this is how progress is made. So while I may not be one of the early adopters of this technology, I look forward to the day when I don't have to carry a camera AND camcorder around the parks. I'll just wait until the quality goes up and the cost comes down.

 

[MICKEY88]

judging by the article, it would ad video capbility without sacrificing any of the dslr still ability

 

[Groucho]

I have to admit, I wouldn't mind the ability, either. Theoretically, the only real change to the outside of the camera that would be necessary would be the addition of a microphone somewhere. Most of the time, I don't demand much from my video-taking, so just some basic functionality would be appreciated.

The K20D is already almost there with 20 fps at 1.6 megapixels, much larger than you get in the video mode of a point-n-shoot, though at fewer fps and with no sound and I believe no autofocusing. Of course, it creates a lot of files very quickly and you don't have the capability of recording until the card is full, either.

OK, granted, I would rarely use such a feature, just like I'll rarely use Live View, but I think it's somewhat snobbish to demand that new features not be included in a camera as long as they don't affect its primary functions. Surely there were complainers when "new-fangled" features like autofocus and automatic metering were added to cameras.

 

[DueyDooDah]

... Surely there were complainers when "new-fangled" features like autofocus and automatic metering were added to cameras.

Or those contraptions called digital cameras, which we all know will never catch on. It's a fad. Serious photographers will never stoop so low...(oops, old memory cells firing).