usuqa wrote:
That would be great, as the MovieSR (the silent version) would have its uses (ie if you had no external mic).

All it would take for pentax to have great dslr video would be an option to people would be to add manual mode to the k5's and let the auto horizon work too (as this would help keep the footage lvl and dampen rotational shake).

As for the k-01 and k30, k50 allow you to switch into sensor stabilization and let you pick AVI or higher bitrates for movie recording.

I bet pentax would have sold a lot of units for people doing video, who wouldn't want a weather sealed camera that had nice video and stabilized any lens fitted to it (like fast primes).. and it would be the only system to be able to stabilize the new sigma 18-35 f1.8 which would be a great video lens.

If it was me, Id be kicking myself in the head for not doing software updates that could potentially sell quite a few units and also make exciting customers happy, they have probably lost quite a bit of revenue and could have had a great video following just for updating software.. its silly.

As it is.. the new em-1 from Olympus seems like a good bet, better stabilization, EVF similar in size to some FF cameras, can use many more lens including focal reducers like the metabones and has f0.95 prime lens available and lots of nice first party lens from both panasonic and Olympus themselves.

I really do love my pentax stuff, but its getting ever more tempting to switch over.. I'm hoping for something wonderful as a proper k5 replacement

gartmore wrote:
Where have you been hiding? Good to hear from you , Don

Pentaxophile wrote:
Yeah me too Don! I mean I care about it quite a lot, but not that much. I could, therefore, care less.

Pentaxophile wrote:
I've come to that conclusion after recently recording some video on the K30 (while walking backwards) that had annoying jerks in it. (Not the person I was filming - I mean the footage itself! )

The mechanical SR (e.g. on the K7) used to be perfect for that sort of thing. What a shame.

The big advantage that *even Pentax* DSLRs have over supposedly better P&S cameras and iPhones etc, is being able to use good lenses and having that DOF which comes with a larger sensor. This has much more impact (in a positive way) than a little bit of compression etc. Instantly looks 'professional' (although it seems everyone on Youtube are shooting video on DSLRs these days).

Maybe NEX / MFT cameras are a bit better, but not everyone wants to have a second camera system for video.

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The black magic pocket camera is only 1080p and an even smaller sensor than m4/3 (even though it uses the m4/3 mount) it will no doublt be a great camera and record much better detail than most dslr's although the recent canon RAW video hack will have an impact on there sales but there are people wanting to use the new sigma 18-35 f1.8 with a speed booster on the black magic. There cinema camera records in 2.2k? which isn't much more than 1080p but leaves room for cropping later if you wish.

I have no doubt that things will move to 4k but giving the file sizes involved I think for a lot of people 1080p will still be the sweet spot for years to come, also given that it will take a while for 4k tv's to become the norm, hell I still know people who watch standard def programs.

It's a shame there has been no hacks for pentax stuff, I think the best quality of video from the current crop of pentax camera's is still with the k5 as its AVI can record around 100 Mbit/s but it comes with the limitations like no manual mode, over heating, crazy file sizes.

If Ricoh/Pentax were to give us a firmware update for the k5 to get manual controls and let the auto horizion feature work in video I would be super happy and we would have a great video dslr.