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Re: [OM] A 5D Mk II all tricked out for video

Subject: Re: [OM] A 5D Mk II all tricked out for video
From: "Sue Pearce" <bs.pearce@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 10:24:23 -0500
70x OPTICAL!?!?!? Ar you sure?

Bill PEarce
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Subject: Re: [OM] A 5D Mk II all tricked out for video


> Thanks for the interesting comments by all.
>
>  I have a Panasonic FZ-30 and have found the video option useful for 
> "on-the-spot" videos. I also use their SDR-26 cam-corder, not an HD model, 
> but has 70x optical zoom, manual focus option, and good, comparatively 
> quiet built-in sound recording-since no tape,cassette,or mini-DVD motors, 
> just the SD card. It also has a version of 3-D tracking, built-in lens 
> cover, and is very compact. Check out my 7 minute "2009 Pileated 
> Woodpecker Nest" video on YouTube. :)
>
>  If you enjoy astronomy, you might also like one of the better "dark sky" 
> locations I have found in the midwest. Below is the tinyurl link for my 
> Google map to the site.
>
>  http://tinyurl.com/26g9h8e
>
> As Ever,
> OrinK3
> near Chicago
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> From: "Ken Norton" <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 11:35:55 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
> Subject: Re: [OM] A 5D Mk II all tricked out for video
>
>>Credit Where Credit Is Due Moose
>
> Well, I'm not blasting Canon for what they've done and I think I've been
> pretty clear that a lot of the fault belongs to the buyers. It's like
> General Motors--as long as people kept buying junk they kept making junk.
> Was GM's producing junk the fault of GM or was it the fault of the buying
> public for enabling them to do so? It wasn't until Honda and Toyota 
> started
> womping them was there any effort made to improving the product quality.
> Even that wasn't good enough, though, because the corporate culture was so
> poisoned by the "white tower" syndrome that it took Obama buying the place
> with our tax dollars to even remotely have a chance to turn the place
> around. The jury is out, though, on whether this experiment will yield
> positive results. I'm not holding my breath.
>
> Now, you could say that I'm being a bit unfair by comparing Canon to GM.
> Maybe so. There is no denying that Canon is extremely successful for a
> reason, but for the better part of a hundred years, so was GM. Success 
> does
> not necessarily mean that they are doing things correctly, but it usually
> means that the competition is more incompetent than you.
>
> Let's put the 5Dmk2 into proper perspective, though. It isn't the only 
> game
> in town, but represents the largest sensor version of the technology. 
> Canon
> wasn't even first to market with video in a DSLR. The Sony sensor'd 
> cameras
> have that "jello-cam" issue which is present in so many video cameras 
> these
> days (look at last-season's Ice Road Truckers" for an example of 
> jello-cams
> on steroids). The key competition for the 5Dmk2 in video is the Panasonic
> GH1.
>
> The GH1 is also short of several key features, but has distinct advantages
> over the Canon. The sensor isn't quite as large as the Canon's, but isn't
> tiny either. In fact, the GH1's sensor is probably close to ideal size and
> that camera is also used extensively, if not more, for video production 
> than
> the Canon.
>
> I guess, we all have to wait to see if I'm right or if I'm off the
> reservation. If Canon does answer the needs, we'll see different 
> viewfinder
> options and liveview HDMI output for not just recording internally, but
> external record devices as well as live broadcast or centralized capture.
> I'm hoping that Canon delivers, but I suspect that they'll save most of 
> that
> for a dedicated video camera.
>
> AG
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