[Leica] Camera as video, MII

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

RED has also been announcing things for a while and hasn't really 
been able to meet their own timetable. If they had had more of their 
announced products out before the DSLR's starting coming on line, 
they might have become more of a factor, but I think RED's window of 
opportunity in the m4/3 to FF35mm market might have closed on them. I 
would think they should now concentrate on the larger formats and 
higher end, because they don't have the resources to compete with 
Canon, Nikon or Panasonic.



At 3:49 PM -0400 5/26/10, Spencer Cheng wrote:
>On May 26, 2010, at 15:27, Robert D. Baron wrote:
>
>>  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?
>
>As George mentioned there is the RED camera but it cost about $20K 
>whereas a 5DII is significantly cheaper. There are plenty of 
>impoverished videographers just like still photographers. :)
>
>It's all a matter of volume. There are more and more reasonable 
>priced 1080p capable video cameras available like the Canon Vixia 
>HFS100. I needed some very high quality video clips which the 5DII 
>was good enough. Rental on a RED camera was about $1K per day. 
>Rental of 5DII was considerably cheaper.
>
>Regards,
>Spencer
>
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