no loss of warranty, Pentax does international ones IIRC....but it will only be 12 months.

Bret

it's also the place where your photos are most likely to get stolen; it will also raise your profile in terms of the photo agencies using pics.

I see it with very much active ambivalence; as a backup it isn't really usable due to compression. Your call.

If you want exposure, then flickr. If you like your pics private, don't.

Bret

I realised last icetrack that Audi set the ASR & EDS systems up on ice. Leaving them switched in with studs on, you press the pedal and the car deals with it.
Turning them off means you have to dose things really finely if you don't want spin for whatever reason; leaving them in allows minimum amounts of spin and allows you to turn your brain off. My respect for those systems grew significantly.
ESP was kinda strange, though, because you could feel the car arguing with you as you wanted to hoon through cones at 65km/h on snowpack and it simply didn't want to play ball. With it off? around 4 cones was the max before it span. That was also very, very cool: sit and wait for the movement to stop
It also confirmed to me something I was already pretty sure about: ESP won't regulate unless the car is turning. Slides are perfectly doable without any electronic interference.

Bret

fair enough, I'm not going to the UK in the winter anyway

At least it starts getting a lot lighter when the snow's on the ground, reflecting the light.

Bret

Well, slippery season is now officially upon us. Deliberate spins all the way through first and second are just a twitch of the right foot away, as is different attitude through roundabouts and slides round corners where ESP doesn't get a look in. Roundabouts without getting indicators cancelled? check

I *like* winter.

Will have to mount the 7d in the car tomorrow while I still have it and take some movie....

AFAIK, studs aren't actually banned in the UK? that was the best info I could find. I know the Germans do not like them, which is a pain, but the Danes don't mind and only Stockholm was supposed to be banning them (fine particle dust). We have a requirement for winters from 1/12 to 28/2.

Bret

If the K7 did it (which it does according to a discussion over on dpreview), then I expect the K5 to do it too.

Edit says: I take it back, the K7 did live HDMI. http://vimeo.com/5200965

Bret

but this makes sense to me... after seeing an i7 box struggle today on rendering a short scene and the inability of Premiere to render on a farm, the less post work to be done, the better.

Bret

The teams within the building already ignore video cameras for the most part; they shoot with 7Ds or 5Ds. Sound we're not interested in at all, as there's effects and a voice-over to be dubbed afterwards.

A 35/2.x is what I'm thinking of, and the 14/2.8. A 10-17 could offer us something very interesting indeed... but I don't know if it's really up there with the image that the company wants to project (and this is company business).

Manual was already the order of the day on the first shoot. I was also mainly using around 1/30 to 1/80, depending on the subject, and ISO 320 or so. But I was limited to f4 by the lens and I'd like to be able to drop DoF right down when I have a loupe to help locate focus correctly.

Our video specialist was taken by surprise when it turned out that there were no video cams in use by one in-house team and when they realised about the flexibility and lens options, they were sold on the dSLR idea. It also helps that I get most of the quality of a real video camera at around a tenth of the price...and one of those has been making movies for years using video cams and now? 7D.

Bret

I think I need one of these to play with and test on a real set. It looks suspiciously like the 7D regularly "dies" a heat-related death, so the only real option is a 5DMk2. Several K5s would be cheaper

Have to check what the story is with frame rates and then talk someone into letting the company borrow one along with a 15 and 35 limiteds

Bret

I have studs, yep. I remember when I was a kid, must have been 86 or so, when it absolutely threw it down with snow. A foot or so in Coventry, motorists trapped on the M6, abandoned cars everywhere.

Now? A couple of years back I had to go to Germany. I hoofed it down the motorway on fresh snow. 0730 flight, Finnair, from home base. Will it be late? No.
2.5 hours later, circling: "we're sorry, but dusseldorf is closed due to snow".... cue idiots doing 40 on the motorway because they're "not sure" and me flying past doing 80-100 in the empty outside lane, which is well within safe limits with decent winter tyres.

Now I actively look for the slippery stuff, working the car on the loud pedal, finding the limits of grip, allowing slides and learning all the time. ESP off is even more fun but a lot of work.
Should get word back in the next couple of days about my track design for the two day session on a frozen lake in Feb.

Bret