How is my Pentax K-5 footage quality compare to Canon and Panasonic DSLR?

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liukaitc

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really curious if the quality of my k-5 footage can match canon dslr or even panosonic dslr (since I only have pentax k-5)...
no manual control in video mode really borther me a lot, but if the quality is as good as canon, I can still live with it right now....

this is an amateur video I shoot. nothing professional...but can give an overall impression of video quality I think.

http://vimeo.com/34936284

after 2m it is just people talking in Chinese..so can skip...
color has been graded
 
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or maybe all DSLR has video quality that is on par with each other..no matter what brand it is...
maybe with panosonic being a bit ahead??
 
Thanks for posting your film - we don't get to see much Pentax material here. Did you have an overheating issue with the K5 when shooting a lot of video?

I'll be interested to see what Pentax put out this year following the Richo take over (I've got a set of old Pentax primes waiting).
 
image quality seems reasonably nice, but lack of manual exposure control is definitely a problem: I think your comment that "my K-5 footage still looks like from a video camera" comes mostly from the clipped highlights and shadows in lots of shots
 
TrueIndigo said:
Thanks for posting your film - we don't get to see much Pentax material here. Did you have an overheating issue with the K5 when shooting a lot of video?

I'll be interested to see what Pentax put out this year following the Richo take over (I've got a set of old Pentax primes waiting).
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I do not know about overheat issue since I do not shoot single clip for long time..besides the AVI clip from k5 is extremely large..in 1080p mode, it can only record 5-6 mins at one time. very limited.
 
NormanBates said:
image quality seems reasonably nice, but lack of manual exposure control is definitely a problem: I think your comment that "my K-5 footage still looks like from a video camera" comes mostly from the clipped highlights and shadows in lots of shots
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ye I think so, does not look like film.
but at that time, I did not know it is always best to dial contrast all the way down when shoot video, I set the contrast pretty high at that time..so the highlight/shadow performance should be somewhat better after I turn the contrast in camera all the way down.
although k-5 use that amazing sony 16mp sensor which has super DR for photo, but seems that is different story for video.
 
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