I tend to get the impression that the DSLR market is starting to get confused about what it is for. I can quite see the attraction of putting video recording facilities into the entry-level DSLRs in order to attract customers who currently use a compact camera. However, when you start moving into the higher-end of the market the only people likely to spending that sort of money are those people who take photography seriously and the likelihood that they want take somewhat mediocre video is low (if they are serious about photography then I find it likely that they would also take video seriously, if they are interested in it). Simply adding video because others have done so is just plain dumb - you are being driven by Marketing rather than by the demands of your customers. Frankly, Sony has other areas more important to address for normal still photographs than adding video, for example their ISO performance relative to Canon and Nikon.
Personally, I recently bought a Nikon D90 and I couldn't care less about the video recording function.
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I tend to get the impression that the DSLR market is starting to get confused about what it is for. I can quite see the attraction of putting video recording facilities into the entry-level DSLRs in order to attract customers who currently use a compact camera. However, when you start moving into the higher-end of the market the only people likely to spending that sort of money are those people who take photography seriously and the likelihood that they want take somewhat mediocre video is low (if they are serious about photography then I find it likely that they would also take video seriously, if they are interested in it). Simply adding video because others have done so is just plain dumb - you are being driven by Marketing rather than by the demands of your customers. Frankly, Sony has other areas more important to address for normal still photographs than adding video, for example their ISO performance relative to Canon and Nikon.
Personally, I recently bought a Nikon D90 and I couldn't care less about the video recording function.