Please Nikon a high end DLSR without video.
I would love to have a D7000 or D800 that was still photo only. Does anyone else feel the same way?
Simpler menu, lower price, focus on photo features.
Agree !! If I wanted video, I would buy a video camera not a dslr...................
I agree. If I need a vedio camera I will go buy one.
R Dubs wrote:
The same goes for Canon.
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I know of at least one video guy who, after seeing what the D800 will do, has bought his last dedicated video camera. But I agree with everone here: I think a non-video option should be offered. Maybe in the D400?
It probably really comes down to dollars and sense. It probably would cost more to market two cameras that did essentially the same thing. Guts is guts. Most of the video stuff is firmware.
sinatraman
Loc: Vero Beach Florida, Earth,alpha quaudrant
its all software the video doesn't add to the cost but drives sales. now i would never use video features because to paraphrase Dr Lenord "Bones" McCoy " Damit Jim Im a photographer not a cinematographer!!!" its bad enough have to compete with ansel adams, now the camera manufactureres want me to compete with steven spielberg too? lol
There is such high demand for video, and its so cheap to add these days that a non-video body will be harder to come by as time moves on. If you don't want it, you don't have to use it. But the video from a DSLR is so far superior to the video from most dedicated video cameras thats there is no comparison. The difference is in the size of the sensors, DSLRs are much larger.
nope, I'm thrilled that it's there :) Having used video cameras with crappy lenses, flaky auto focus, bad auto exposure, etc... I don't use it much but it is soooo nice to have a good quality video option without having to go buy another piece of equipment.
I love my video Canon T3i! Now I don't have to take two cameras when I go hiking. Such a pain that was. All I need is the one camera now.
RMM
Loc: Suburban New York
As MT Shooter said, it probably adds very little to the cost of a DSLR to incorporate video. One camera, choice of functions. Just be glad they haven't stuck a phone in there (yet). "True" photographers may find themselves in situations where being able to switch to video mode will come in handy. Coming up on an accident scene, doing preliminary evaluations of a site for a later shoot to plan positions, who knows? Even a video of a model to study, see the best angle, background, etc. Thing is, the utility may come as an unexpected, but pleasant surprise, at very little cost.
Opus
Loc: South East Michigan
Some body asked me why I didnt want video in my camera. I replied that a video DVD hung on the wall just isnt as nice a picture hung on the wall. We should all write Nikon, Cannon and Sony and tell them what we want, not that it would make a difference.
And the same goes for Sony.
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