Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/05/26

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Subject: [Leica] Camera as video, MII
From: rbaron at concentric.net (Robert D. Baron)
Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 14:27:07 -0500
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==On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Spencer Cheng <spencer at aotera.org> 
wrote:

> I used a 5DII to shoot some reference video clips recently for 
> work-related project, the quality is very good (but at 40 Mbps for H.264, 
> it better be really, really good :). My friend who does a lot of camera 
> work for broadcasters at major sport events says the video quality is as 
> good as broadcast video cameras.
>
> The tradeoffs are a) wrong ergonomics for a video camera - this is why 
> there all these addons to make the 5DII actually usable for serious video 
> work b) controls are not optimal for video c) very hard to focus with the 
> LCD on fast moving subjects.
>

So, why has no one been able to produce a single-purpose video camera
with proper ergonomics etc that produces images like the 5DM2?

Is the perceived market for it too small to justify the cost of development?

--Bob


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