UPDATE: The firmware was released in October, but only added the ability to control aperture during movie recording. We need control of shutter speed and ISO for it to be properly usable. Image source: IFA 2010, press pack – Sony’s press conference today at the IFA in Berlin Source: German website Slashcam.de reports via Sony Alpha Rumors Ichiro Takagi (Deputy President of the Imaging Business Group of Sony) today told…
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Recently Canon have shown that manual control is very important even if they do release the same camera 3 times in 12 months. Also recently, Sony have shown that they do not think any kind of manual control is important for the budding filmmaker.
Above: the Sony A55, which died today. UPDATE #1: Sadly the same applies to the Sony A580 – the full sized DSLR which has also been announced. It also has interlaced footage, low bite rates and limited manual controls (aperture priority and that is all). Who is responsible at Sony for these blanket movie mode limitations? UPDATE #2: Not everybody gets the DSLR video revolution and it is these customers…
Generation 2 is almost here and we will soon start a new video DSLR journey in September at Photokina. I hope you enjoy the ride. We can expect a LOT of big changes in the next hardware which will hugely improve video capabilities. EOSHD.com will be there to cover the news first hand. Here, since this week the jigsaw pieces have really begun to fall into place I’d like to…