I've think Stan nailed it... Regards, Bob S. >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
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Stan Halpin <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. -- 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.
