Comment by Mildlypolite
2 years ago
The fact is when you are recording a good quality video you never go over a few minutes of recording. So usually it doesn't bother film makers too much.
If you're recording a live opera it's a problem but then you usually have much higher quality gear without the limitations of a DSLR.
> The fact is when you are recording a good quality video you never go over a few minutes of recording
I've made home sex tapes longer than 30 minutes, imagine stopping in the middle to start a new file on the camera! Or imagine someone filming the birth of their child and failing to capture it because the camera timed out at an inopportune moment.
> I've made home sex tapes longer than 30 minutes
No need to brag.
What if you are recording a conference or a lecture? May easily go over 30 minutes; does not always need theatrical quality.
You probably want to consider live streaming the event which means using something with clean HDMI out or a USB webcam mode, along with a dedicated capture device/computer. At that point you can just dump a recording of any size to disk.
Use a $500 video camera rather than a $5,000 DSLR setup?
5,000$ DSLR’s take better video than $500 video cameras.
So I think it’s just price discrimination. They want people to buy 50,000$ video cameras not 5,000$ DSLR’s.
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