Canon EOS 450D Live View

[schoolbusdriver]

Maybe "Live View" has more of a use than I imagined. You can send the output via the (video composite) jack to a capture card to record video. The camera's LCD screen is disabled in this mode, so presumably it won't cook. Add a mains adapter (already purchased) and you don't have to keep changing batteries.

Of more use, as far as I'm concerned, is to set it up so I can monitor and snap wildlife (stills) by radio remote control (where I won't spook it).

I would never, of course, use this to secretly record police brutality and their other illegal activities, or video people driving while using their mobile phones, then sell the footage to the press, or point it into a neighbour's bedroom window, mainly because I don't have a long enough mains extension lead.