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The story I heard is that Nikon intentionally crippled their video recording modes (29:59 time limit?) for import/export tax reasons. Whereas apparently Sony a
by ethbr0 4y ago
The story I heard is that Nikon intentionally crippled their video recording modes (29:59 time limit?) for import/export tax reasons.
Whereas apparently Sony and Canon didn't.
Edit: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-8-2016-001277-ASW_EN.html https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-8-2016-00127...
So seems the full story is about the EU. Digital still image cameras (which were made in the EU?) were not taxed. Digital camcorders (which were mostly made in Japan) were taxed at either 4.9% or 14%. One distinguishing as to whether a camera was still or camcorder was "Whether the device can record at least 30 minutes of video."
The law was repealed in 2019.
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- dboreham 4y agoCanon have been guilty of this too.
- jinto36 4y agoCanon absolutely did this, I have the first-gen of their first-gen mirrorless system, the EOS-M, and I run a 3rd party firmware on it (MagicLantern) to be able to bypass the 30-minute record limit. The same was true in many other cameras as well, that were marketed more for photography but were fully capable of decent continuous video (without overheating).