The only thing more tedious than watching another's slide show is watching a home video. At least with slides (I.e., still images) it is possible to vary the pace based on audience feedback. I've done video, both film and digital, (2-3 years of each) and have zero interest in repeating the experience. So, from my narrow but insightful perspective, I could care less about video capability on DSLRs, and I expect the current video fad to vanish soon under the weight of the processing/editing requirements and the unrelenting banality of the product.
stan Sent from my iPad On Aug 23, 2012, at 11:36 AM, Darren Addy <[email protected]> wrote: > True still photography (as in push the button and capture a moment in > one picture) is going to be an endangered species very soon. > I'm sure that most of us still consider images taken at 6 fps with our > Pentax DSLRs to be photographs. What if your DSLR could do 30 fps? We > are already at the point where, with enough money, you can buy a 4K > video camera (shooting at 30 fps) and get video capture stills good > enough to use reproduced on glossy magazine covers. > > One might think it tedious to go through video looking for stills (30 > of them per second) but, if there isn't already, there soon will be > Lightroom-V sort of programs that do it for you. 10 seconds of video > would be laid out in 300 thumbnails for you to zoom in on and do > further post-processing. 10 minutes of video would give you 18000 > images to zoom through. > > All of this sounds rather unpalatable to most of us, I'm sure. Just > like many people are still enjoying film (and some young people > discovering it for the first time, the same may be said for still > photography). So it will be with still cameras. There will be a period > where weddings are being photographed by people using video, while > others hold on to still digital... just as there were film shooters > overlapping with early adopters of DSLRs. Eventually, still > photography will be dominated by people who are strobe lighting > experts, since you can't duplicate the light output of a flash for > anything resembling long duration video unless you can afford and > master Hollywood lighting set-ups. (the length of the flash determines > how many video frames you have to choose from... if it is less than a > 30th of a sec. then you will only have 1 exposure on a 30 fps camera). > > In film, the director is considered the creative force. He leans on a > director of photography and people to run the actual cameras. The sort > of still images coming from video of the future puts all of those jobs > in one person's hands (which those who are using their cameras for > video are already transitioning into). The job is just going to get > bigger and more sophisticated, and more widespread. > > The far-sighted camera manufacturers can already see this day coming, > getting closer with each new revision of sensor, computing power, > software and increased storage. That's why most are putting more and > more emphasis on the video capabilities of their DSLRs. Some, like > Sony and Canon are producing both video cameras and still cameras. > Those that don't should probably be looking to acquire businesses (or > be acquired by them) that have that expertise and manufacturing > ability - because the future is going to involve a lot of > cross-pollination between engineers on both sides of the hall. > > Those who fail to see the future and adapt quickly to it will be the > Kodaks of tomorrow. > > > -- > "The key to seeing the world's soul, and in the process wakening one's > own, is to get over the confusion > by which we think that fact is real and imagination an illusion. It is > the other way around." > > -Thomas Moore, "Original Self" > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
