DSLR lockdown issue in Europe

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I'd love to buy a new Nikon D7000 because I have all my Nikon lenses and I'd like to do some broadcast quality video but I also want to video conferences.

Imagine my amazement when I discovered that these cameras are locked down to 20 mins of continuous video in Europe because of Tax laws. So no time lapse either?

Any workarounds for this apart from buying from the States? It's really frigged me off that this is the case.
 
Huh, I didn't know it was due to tax. I always assumed it was because the sensors were more liable to overheating after being open for that long, and to try and reduce the number of hot pixels that would eventually appear after such a long period of shooting.

Maybe try a HK sourced one then, if you are positive they aren't subject to the cap?
 
Surely with video conferencing you wouldn't be using the camera to record? You'd essentially be using live view and capturing the hdmi output into a pc and firing it over the net.

Not sure with nikons but i think the canons can do this pretty much indefinitely until the battery runs out. Also i believe the canons will record standard def upto ~30 mins but your limited to 4GB files as well so your still facing limits.

And James is spot on, you don't use video for timelapse (well you could but you'd just be throwing away hundreds of frames)

Also strictly speaking it isn't broadcast quality (tho its damn good) so it just kind of sounds like your wanting to use the wrong tools for what you want to do.
 
Yes i heard this as well, its so the camera is sold as a photo camera not a camcorder. Not sure whats its to do with but think i have heard tax of one of the reasons.

And timelapses can be done a lot easier with pictures.
 
sensors get hot if used for extended periods of time, its not a video camera so isn't built to be one
 
Yeah as david said I'm sure I read somewhere that Canon's response was the tax limitation wasn't much of a problem because sensor heat would be a problem for much longer clips.
 
nano said:
Surely with video conferencing you wouldn't be using the camera to record? You'd essentially be using live view and capturing the hdmi output into a pc and firing it over the net.

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i read that as him wanting to video, conferences, not wanting to use the camera for video conference - if was the latter surely most people would just ue a web cam
 
I'm sure the 4GB limit is down to the FAT32 file format, rather than sensor overheating. I could be wrong of course :lol:
 
eyebeams said:
Any workarounds for this apart from buying from the States? It's really frigged me off that this is the case.
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One workaround could be to use a timer shutter release (if they can control video shooting) and put up with a blip every 20 minutes.
 
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