Sabrina Kilian wrote:
> Not really, there are some scary lawyer words buried in those owner's
> manuals.

I just read a recent discussion where someone went thru a bunch of user 
manuals for all the high-end cameras, including like the things that TV 
studios and digital movie production houses use, and they *all* say you have 
to go get your license for any commercial use. Indeed, individual viewers 
also need a license to watch any video that was *ever* in MPEG (h.264?) 
format that ever had any sort of money transfer associated with it.

So if you take a video with a camera that records it as mpeg, transcode that 
to FLV, share it via youtube (where youtube makes money serving ads), and I 
watch it, I technically need a license to watch that video.

> If you own old lenses, it's worth the time, and maybe money, to look at
> the different cameras. If you don't own old lenses, it doesn't matter.

I had old lenses, but not so old they didn't have autofocus. :-)

> I have lenses older than me. SLR bodies, folding cameras, and
> 8/super8/16mm film cameras too. Twenty five cents goes a long way at tag
> sales.

Yep.

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