The next step in cameras

I'm relaying this from my College Media Advisers e-mail list: Nikon is introducing the first digital SLR camera that can also shoot video. My colleague Adam Drew at the University of Texas at Arlington writes this:

What really makes this camera interesting to me is that you can use a full array of lenses, including high power zooms and fisheyes — for video. It will be neat to see how people use prime lenses like the 50mm f/1.4 for shallow depth-of-field and blurred backgrounds. It should do very well in low light since it can use fancy lenses with large apertures. The sensor is also considerably larger than the ones in most camcorders, so the images should have much less noise. The only limitation is that sound is mono and clips are limited to 5 minutes in HD mode, or 20 minutes in regular (640x424) mode.

More info here. Amazon is taking pre-orders and listing it for $1,299.95.