DSLR v Camcorder

[Jim Bell]

Well said Dave. Funny how many people miss this point. Still if you are all about image quality and look, you will suffer for your art… Personally I’m waiting and hoping someone like Panny or Canon themselves rushes something with a changeable lenses and a big sensor in camcorder to market by year end.

[Ryan Loetscher]

It depends on what you’re talking about… if your in the information business (I guess we can label TMZ that), like news, anything easy, quick and hand held will be king… my old station has basically switched to reporters with flip cams in the field. A reporter could never use one of these cameras.

Now as for in the field… I have to agree its all about the image. I’ll suffer for my art… and we’re not talking about a lot of suffering here. Everybody today is so spoiled… The film days were not that long ago. Don’t you remember what that was like?? Now we can achieve that quality at a way cheaper cost, and its STILL more convenient. Its not that bad pulling focus, and I always use external audio anyway. The only thing I wish I could fix at the moment (a DSLR/Camcorder hybrid would obviously be all around better of course), is the codec. That does affect quality.

We’ll have the crossover platform soon enough… in the meantime this is awesome! And I’m very happy with my camera. I kinda like having the bonus of a professional grade still camera as well. I’ve used that more than the video all of a sudden!