well... as a wedding shooter I feel both stills and video are important to tell a story...
an intimate glance, a moment, a kiss, captured in a photo frozen in time... to be appreciated even fifty years later.......
then there are the speeches.... a photo of a person holding a mic will tell you who made the speech, but fifty years later, trying to remember where you parked your car is challenging enough... you'll want that video clip to remember what the person holding the mic said....

don't you mean "Truthfully"?

well only you can decide if you need video.
I suspect if you have video you will wind up using it eventually...

three tips for better video:

1) video is 80% audio... people will sit through crappy video with good sound, but not vice versa.
2) video is about motion... it is good to have the subject in motion or the camera in motion, but seldom good to have both moving at the same time.
3) zooming while filming is bad more often than not.

I suspect those were the more flattering of the series.
we will see a day when those photogs are replaced with robots, and GWB by some kind of childrens entertainer with a painted face and colorful costume... "Shakes the Clown" maybe...

Me step mum Morag was a Scot, and if there's one thing she and unca Ewan taught me.... it's that Scotsmen seem cheap.... it's cause they saves thier monies, for good scotch!

So I have been watching developments in the Evil class cameras lately with much interest...
I'm looking a a Sony video cam that has a nex mount lens... then there are the samsung nx series cameras and of course the 4/3rds class....
I see cosina, novaflex and other brands making adapters to mount various lenses to these cameras....
of course me being both cheap and brilliant have come up with a $5.00 solution.....

anybody out there gets a hold of one of these adapters (esp the pentax to samsung nx or pentax to sony nex) please measure the thickness of the adapter for me and let me know how many mm's space there is between the mounts....


It seems to me a cheap black plastic pentax to nx or nex adapter could be made by simply epoxying a pk lensmount cap to an nx or nex black plastic bodycap with a pvc plumbing pipe spacer....... of course drilling a big hole through it when it is finished drying .....

getting a pentax prime onto one of those cameras for $5.00 or less would be fun to try...

I'm pretty sure the 645d will drop in price dramatically once a newer model 645d II comes out.... with a sixty or eighty mp sensor....
after recovering development cost there is nothing to stop them from knocking off a grand or two...
so who'd want FF then?

you'd probably be better of gutting something like the kx or nx10 and fabricating replicas of old classic cameras and selling them as novelties....

oldie but a goody....

the real reason the idea was abandoned in the first place.....
every camera made had only conform to the standardized size of the film canister and frame size, not frame location, therefor the distance between the film canister, the image frame and the rewind crank were never standardized, meaning you'd need to build this contraption specifically to fit certain models of camera...

if it fit the k1000 for example, it would not fit the me super...