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Video on the GR?

Hey, can any GR owners experiment what kind of controls do you get for the video? To start off...

1) AF during video?
2) Ability to turn off AF during the video, and use MF?
3) Changing aperture/shutter/exposure compensation during video?
 
oH, RICOH AND THE VIDEO, what a combination. As the satisfied owner of GXR 28 and 50 plus m-mount and old video operator, I wrote a lot on subject how the video should be implemented if at all.
Of course you should be able to MF, of course you should be able to manually control the exposure, especially the shutter speed which ideally should be 1/50 at 24/25f and then control the aperture either with f-stops or and with Vari-ND filter. Of course you should be able to choose ISO.
On m-unit you , by the definition , MF otherwise nada. No info on shutter and ISO. On AF cameras you should be at least able to lock the distance on one dedicated Fn button and exposure on another. I dont`t know GR yet but my friend don`t expect too much of it videowise. All in all, video on Ricoh and most of similar cams is a big laugh. The only exeption would be time lapse but it`s alas not 24fps.
Look at Holly Bolly. Nobody there uses AF. The best option for Ricoh would be and video module for GXR with all things manual and and extention cable for EVF. Now that would be something. Otherwise Ricoh, forget the video, leave it to Panasonic or Sony.
 
If we had manual control over video on this thing... it would be miles ahead of fuji and even up to par on some dslr's.. the video as is is so much better than the x100 it actually is somewhat nice to use, even at night with extremely low light. I know its all automated which is annoying for video but fuji's quality is trash compared to this. I think the video is better than Iphone video to be honest.. but I don't have an IPhone so don't trust me on that, although I've seen plenty of video footage from iphones. The sound is actually pretty good on the GR too... if we had manual controls this would be such a convenience to use, it's lowlight is more than capable but guess what, it's never going to happen, not that i care or that it matters at all in such a fine camera.. there are dslr's and panasonic m4/3 cameras for video and probably others that contend for video in compact cameras. So yeah op, no mf, no control over aperture or shutter speed though it would be really nice, considering there is a dedicated movie mode dial setting and actually, it's surprisingly good video footage as is.
 
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