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Cheap Used Body for Video

Started Aug 24, 2015 | Discussions thread
Michael Meissner
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Re: Cheap Used Body for Video

aliasfox wrote:

- Do any of these have a recording limiter? I know every body stops at 29 mins for tax reasons in the EU, but how about in the US? I thought I read that my E-PM2 can only record for 29 minutes at a stretch, and that was something I was concerned about as well.

In general Olympus only makes one version world wide, so all bodies are limited to 29 minutes and 59 seconds. Note, until the E-M5 mark II and E-M10 mark II, the Olympus bodies had very little in the way of video options (no 24fps for instance). I forget when Olympus started supporting AVCHD, but before that, they were limited to 2MP file sizes on the card, which in turn meant 7 minutes of record time for HD and 14 minutes of record time for SD.

For the P&S cameras, Panasonic has made 2 models, one limited for sale in Europe (and defaulting to PAL output), and the other unlimited (and defaulting to NTSC output). I don't know what they do for mirrorless bodies.

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