.:The Official WHY VIDEO IS HERE TO STAY thread!!!:.

nontetheredbrain wrote in post #8416496
No, but that's three yrs ago, a dogs life when talking about electronics. Plus it's just my IR camera. Do I think they have put too many pixels in the last three to four bodies they have released yes. Even their P&S shoots.

Cameras like the 50D may have more pixels than people feel they really need, but they do resolve a lot of detail.

However, the 5D MKII has the same pixel density as your 30D does, so it's really not that much.... at least I don't remember people complaining about too many MP's when the 20D and 30D were released.

timnosenzo wrote in post #8416427
Do you feel that your 30D has too many pixels?

trap set...

nontetheredbrain wrote in post #8416496
No, but that's three yrs ago.

bait taken!

timnosenzo wrote in post #8416526
However, the 5D MKII has the same pixel density as your 30D does, so it's really not that much.... at least I don't remember people complaining about too many MP's when the 20D and 30D were released.

WELL PLAYED!

It's like saying you don't want air conditioning in your car because you hate air conditioning and will never use it. Guess what, it is foolish to buy a car without air conditioning because your car would be less marketable to sell when the time comes.

jacobsen1 wrote in post #8416153
Further, the microphone and speaker probably cost canon $5 to purchase, so that price when passed on to the end user isn't much at all.

Probably more like 5 cents for both. I shot a jewelry catalog with pieces made in the orient, and you wont believe the manufacturer's price of beautiful intricate watches.... 33 cents.

At first the I thought the 5DII video mode was a gimmick but I could have used it photographing/videotap​ing a beauty pageant for a client. I was switching back and forth between video camera and still, it was difficult juggling two cameras. In the end I wasn't happy with either the video or stills that I shot. Yep video recording in an SLR is not a gimmick... it's a necessity in this day and age of youtube.

timnosenzo wrote in post #8416526
Cameras like the 50D may have more pixels than people feel they really need, but they do resolve a lot of detail.

However, the 5D MKII has the same pixel density as your 30D does, so it's really not that much.... at least I don't remember people complaining about too many MP's when the 20D and 30D were released.

I should have omitted the 5D2 in my response.


No people weren't complaining then but since all they have been doing (just about) is adding pixels where's it's know double that amount on just about the same sensor, some are now. Where's that pixel binning that everybody thought was coming with the 50D?

I don't won't to turn this into a why, woulda, shoulda. The OP put some good thought into his post and and wanted to give props, but I just had to mention that I still want better DR than video.

jacobsen1 wrote in post #8416542
trap set...

bait taken!

WELL PLAYED!

Like I didn't now that, oh you guys are just so clever.

I'm glad to see that this is the "official thread".....

Johnny V wrote in post #8416753
Probably more like 5 cents for both. I shot a jewelry catalog with pieces made in the orient, and you wont believe the manufacturer's price of beautiful intricate watches.... 33 cents.

I actually work in jewelry costing, so yeah, I do know a thing or two about it...

nontetheredbrain wrote in post #8416755
Where's that pixel binning that everybody thought was coming with the 50D?

I thought people felt that's what was going on with sRAW files and why they show less noise than full res images?

which is again why you're barking up the wrong tree. Wanting better DR is fine. Not wanting video is also fine. But hinting that you got video IN PLACE OF better DR is where you're wrong.

jacobsen1 wrote in post #8416788
I actually work in jewelry costing, so yeah, I do know a thing or two about it...

I thought people felt that's what was going on with sRAW files and why they show less noise than full res images?

which is again why you're barking up the wrong tree. Wanting better DR is fine. Not wanting video is also fine. But hinting that you got video IN PLACE OF better DR is where you're wrong.

I hinted at nothing;

Look this is your thread, you want to be the absolute and end all on this subject or you wouldn't have made it the official thread. When you're some Asian dude that has a Canon business card that give you a title of VP of some dept, then you can be the absolute. Hell who knows you might just be trying to do that anyways.

I'd love to see all the new Canon releases include movie mode.

My XS recording video, but no audio
http://www.youtube.com​/watch?v=Qh3E6xxCLbM

Well posted, these threads moaning about video mode are getting a little tedious. I'm covering an event at work tonight and will have both 5D2s and now have the option of instantly switching to video mode and grabbing some footage. Excellent. It is as simple as that.

So I can use all my software.

Fidget said hes +1 for video as well!!

I have no use for the video, but the same complaints came up when autofocus was slapped into the modern age. A "real photographer" doesn't need AF, AF lets anyone think they are a pro, etc etc. We've seen the same thing with complaints regarding everyone having a digital camera as well.

Like it or not, video will stay in DSLR bodies even if for no other reason than a manufacturer doesn't want to be left behind by other companies that do include it. Will it makes anyone a "pro"? Obviously not.

Although I've not used video in my 5DmkII so far, I'm sure it's here to stay. There are too many people that are going to take advantage of it and show others how good it is. Canon will also make it easier to use with the mkIII and mkIV.

Ten years from now, we'll not even wonder why our Rebel XPix has HD video (with surround sound!).