Many people have started the move from VX to DSLR's it seems more than actual HD video cameras. The quality of the picture is better but there is some flaws with the DSLR cameras for this particular style of film making to me. The image on DSLR's in video mode is rectangular rather than square, witch in skateboard videos makes it less desirable to me right off the bat. DSLR's take fish eye lenses but the lenses just do not look any thing like the classic MK1. The DSLR's fisheye lenses distort the image in a way that does not look natural to me, no slightly cut off ages or perfectly focused moving skateboarders any more. With a DSLR you run in to audio issues and camera holding issues. The audio is vary poor with the the dslrs regular camera body. If you want crisp audio you would have to buy a external microphone for the camera but you still wont here all the cracks, pops and slides as well as the VX does it with just its built in microphone. Fallowing a skateboarder or capturing them on a hand rail with a fisheye is very hard with out a view finder to look though. And holding it doing those things would be very difficult also so you would have to buy a metal handle that makes the shape and feel of a dslr just like a classic VX. So why get a DSLR? no clue! i would just stick with the VX and standard definition for now till we find something that has better quality picture and is as perfect for skateboarding as the VX is.
With all that being said the VX1000 MK1 set up will always remind us of the most fun and memorable times in skateboarding and will always, always be a icon and still be used. I feel like the VX will hang in there for a long time to come.
seen is a vx1000 with a century optics mark 1 fisheye lens.
seen is a canon EOS 7D with handle, external microphone, and a added LCD screen and light for at night
