Rachel, I understand where you're coming from. But even so, there's an expression, "Don't send a boy to do a man's job." That holds here as well. If he's not in the market for a camera that will cost well over $3,000 with even a basic lens, or isn't competent enough to use it properly, then that's pretty much that.
People who will spend half, or less on their cameras, might look longingly at the more expensive models, but won't buy one because they know it's not for them.
Someone who could have made better use of this should have been used.
And for that comment, that "many" photographers would not have bought this if they only new that video was difficult to use is a joke really. It's the fault of the photographer for not investigating a product before buying, who's at fault there, though the comment makes it seem otherwise.
I own this camera, and like virtually everyone else I know who does, I'm very pleased with it.
Using a video head, this takes amazingly good video. And so yes, for that, it's a pro camera. It shoots video the way motion picture cinematographers do. Mostly manually. They wouldn't be caught dead using auto focus or metering.
As for the guy who thinks his D300 has about the same IQ, well, he's obviously never used this.
They aren't even close.
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