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Re:V002 Camera Live – Zoom with Your DSLR as a Webcam via USB by myself248 on Friday June 05, 2020 @05:31PM (#23434246)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the 30m limit is due to some taxes or regulations on "video cameras", right?

Edit: Yup. https://petapixel.com/2012/05/21/30-minute-video-limit-in-di...

> At present [2012], digital cameras' video cuts off after 30 minutes to avoid them being classified as video cameras (which attract 5.4% duty because they are considered to be video recorders

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Re:V002 Camera Live – Zoom with Your DSLR as a Webcam via USB by koolba on Friday June 05, 2020 @06:05PM (#23434574)
Reminds me of those light trucks that get ripped apart to create passenger cars.

EDIT: I had it backwards. The tax is on trucks and it gets circumvented by importing them as passenger cars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax

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Re:V002 Camera Live – Zoom with Your DSLR as a Webcam via USB by triangleman on Friday June 05, 2020 @11:54PM (#23436686)
Nah, light trucks are in a whole other category (or exempt, I don't know) in "CAFE" standards, so that's why you see so many SUV's in America.
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Re:V002 Camera Live – Zoom with Your DSLR as a Webcam via USB by fomine3 on Saturday June 06, 2020 @12:20AM (#23436809)
Economic Partnership Agreement between Japan and EU had signed that abolishes the video camera tax. Most camera brands are in Japan but I don't know how many cameras made in Japan.

This Japanese article describing the agreement especially for cameras. I can't find English articles like this.

https://av.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/series/zooma/1171774.htm...

This is the original agreement text that's too long didn't read.

https://www.mofa.go.jp/ecm/ie/page4e_000875.html

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Re:V002 Camera Live – Zoom with Your DSLR as a Webcam via USB by Ductapemaster on Friday June 05, 2020 @08:37PM (#23435673)
That's a really interesting piece of knowledge — thank you for sharing!
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