Darren, It's been already described in Harry Potter stories: photos in newspapers are animated.
Igor Thu Aug 23 11:36:40 EDT 2012 Darren Addy 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. -- 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.
