there are a few types of shooting that could make use of the limitations of VDSLT/VDSLR (short shooting durations, lens motor noise, etc.):
- short/experimental/low-mid budget films
- commercial
- music video
the current VDSLT/VDSLR is not suitable for
- news reporting/journalistic/documentary video
- wedding coverage
Why?
If you guys ever learned film production, or shooting actual films, you'd know that each scene takes are normally no more than 1 minute. Very rare goes beyond 3 mins. After that it's all about editing on how the director and editor will put every bits and pieces of shots together. Sound (even ambient) is often added separately. Mic with boom is always used. We never use the built-in mics eventhough there's one on our video camera. We are even encouraged to use manual focus. However I wish the current implementation accepts recording in RAW video, and support XLR inputs for high quality mics. Maybe there's adapter, but I don't know.
If I were to sum up, back then in uni, we only need/use: manual focus, external mics, built-in ND filter (used accordingly), and a very good sturdy tripod of course.
Not suitable for news reporting or wedding coverage due to handling, and limited shooting duration. Video camera is always the best in these areas.
I might have missed a few things though.
Oh ya... I know I've been missing for a while. Just being busy with other businesses... no time for photography anymore.
Yeah VDSLR is not for documentaries and journalistic (although some people have achieve it before by using cut n paste method), NEX VG-10 is an better alternative for these
For wedding some people has done using short film style like this from D1 Production in Malaysia:
For lens motor noise it would be solve by carrying the HDR voice recorder paired with shotgun mic