@toddeastman wrote:Parallel or separate, if I'm not recording there should be no time limit on the vdo due to file size restrictions which, as far as I know, is the cause of Canon DSLR shut downs along with overheating. If this is so, I can't figure the reason a 5D or 7D would shut down and stop feed without an auto shutoff engaged, the file size limit being reached, or power running out (which could be eliminated with DC wall wart). How can one do a 6 hour timelapse with the sucker if it won't stay on? 😉
You have to see both sides of the situation. A major jurisdiction (I think it's the EU) taxes video cameras more stiffly than it does still cameras. To keep their DSLRs from being classified as video cameras, the still camera manufacturers have agreed to limit their video capability to 30 consecutive minutes. Obviously the theory is that a serious videographer can't tolerate such a limitation. But the taxing authorities may regard your HDMI feed as merely a workaround to avoid the higher tax, in which case they may have required the manufacturers to limit that to 30 minutes as well. You'd better try to find out whether that's the case, because if it is, looking for a solution with your current equipment may be futile.
ps hope things have settled and all's better up there in Boston, Bob.
Well, I'm told that the snow mounds in the park in Cambridge (which I photographed for posterity back in February) finished melting two or three weeks ago. But my informant also reported that mounds do still exist in the South Boston parking lot where Boston dumped much of their snow.
But in general the commentariat has moved on from whining about the surfeit of snow last winter to whining about the lack of rain this spring.
And the commuter trains are back to running their full schedule, so I can usually get to work on time.
