HDDSLR limitations

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asafb

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Hello,
Is there any HDDSLRs that are smart enough to record continuous without stopping recording after 12minutes? Any new models in the future that will get around this limitation?
Thanks,
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if your doing films, its probably going to be rare you ever even hit the 1 minute mark in a take.

If your doing documentaries your interviews shouldnt typically be that much longer than that anyway.

Not srue why this is a big deal, my D90 had a 5 min rec limit and other than doing a documentary once i rarely ever came close to it
 
jonE5 said:
if your doing films, its probably going to be rare you ever even hit the 1 minute mark in a take.

If your doing documentaries your interviews shouldnt typically be that much longer than that anyway.

Not srue why this is a big deal, my D90 had a 5 min rec limit and other than doing a documentary once i rarely ever came close to it
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Wow what sort of film are you shooting? 1 minute? 5 minutes maybe but 1 minute is NOTHING. By the time you've slated the the thing that's already 1/6th of that time gone. If you're getting coverage of a dialog scene most people will do a "long take" of the scene from each angle, so you get the whole scene in a take for the actors to give their best performance. I usually get a couple of those, and then get some individual lines.

Anyway, the GH1 has no record time limit and doesn't overheat.
 
and you probably wont' see that limitation leave the canon dslrs for a good long while. They have make fat 64 CF cards for that to start happening, maybe a firmware upgrade can make the current generation cameras compatible, or maybe a firmware upgrade might come one day to allow spanned clips.

but all this maybe isn't gonna get you anywhere, nobody has a clue what canon is doing, or what nikon is doing, not even canon or nikon reps.

only 2 options you got are sit on your hands until the new panny cam comes out or, something latest and greatest from canon and nikon comes out, get yourself a gh1, or a more full fledged camera, even something in the HMC line with a DOF adapter.
 
I did some tests because I too have to do an interview. Depending on the amount of detail, and movement on the footage the average time was a little over 12min until it stopped the file.
 
Ugh, you know how many people ask about this issue every day all across the internet? It's maddening!

Look, if you don't already know what you will be doing with your camera when you get it then you need to get off the boards and go practice. There is no real set standard for documentaries or making films, everybody does it differently.

If you want to turn the camera on and film all day then a VDSLR is not for you, try an EX1 or one of the other various prosumer cameras out there.

If you are going to plan out your shots and do small takes then a VDSLR will do fine but try not to doddle around before yelling action, the camera's record clock is ticking.

In my experience with a Nikon D90, things were rather weird. Sometimes I got the usual 5-minute limit and it would do 30-second spurts after a while due to overheating but then there were times when it would do 5-minute segments all day long. This, needless to say, would not be ideal for a documentary or long form dialogue scenes.

Now, the biggest strength VDSLR's have is their good performance in low light and their lens selections. If your documentary would benefit from having a really long lens or having a super wide 11mm shot (Tokina 11-16) then you should do whatever you can to make your work stand out and, therefore, plan the project accordingly for any limitations your equipment will or may have. Then there is always the option of mixing and matching. Nobody said you couldn't use a Canon HV20 or something for head-shot interview segments and then go out into the field with a VDSLR for the rest. Whatever works for you will work for the project.
 
you could also have multiple cameras and stagger the recording in a multicam method, so theoretically you can record endlessly as long as you have the CF cards.
 
Again, the GH1 is an HDSLR that will record continuously until the card fills up....up to 4 hours on a 32 gb card.
 
Ben_B said:
Wow what sort of film are you shooting? 1 minute? 5 minutes maybe but 1 minute is NOTHING. By the time you've slated the the thing that's already 1/6th of that time gone. If you're getting coverage of a dialog scene most people will do a "long take" of the scene from each angle, so you get the whole scene in a take for the actors to give their best performance. I usually get a couple of those, and then get some individual lines.

Anyway, the GH1 has no record time limit and doesn't overheat.
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No kidding...wanna see some long takes (NSFW) - these woulda hit the 12 minute limit on the other cams, but not the GH1 :)

http://www.vimeo.com/11096667
password "dragons"
 
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