My 2p...
I don't like the idea either. You don't go to a pizza place and order a burger. It's a specialist thing. If the pizza place were to start making burgers because they had a grill and a license to sell food, I think you'll agree with me that it's quite likely that the quality of the pizza is going to go down.
It is good to see innovation from the camera companies. And it's fine that they have proved their point that they can put video on a dSLR. But I'm not a videographer, and I don't care to have the feature on my camera thanks.
I have a question about it though... you know if you take a long exposure - say of star trails - the sensor heats up and generates extra noise and hot pixels? So how to they control that in video mode?
If Canon and Nikon R&D want to spend money on something useful to everyone, they might want to give us cameras with greatly increased dynamic range. Apparently our eyes can see the equivalent of about 24 f-stops, but most cameras can only shoot around 12 f-stops of dynamic range. Think of the possibilities of a camera that could capture 30, 40, or 50 f-stops worth of data! That will be a whole new world for us!
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