On 26/8/12, William Robb, discombobulated, unleashed: >The goal of early photography was to capture a moment in time, it took >the technology a while to allow it. To say that because it took several >minutes to capture that moment because of technical limitations, early >photography has something in common with video is somewhat of a stretch. >Don't Bogart that joint, my friend, pass it over to me. > >Video makes no pretensions that way, never has, never will. >To me, the sea change isn't still or video, it is how we look at images. >The vast majority of images now are viewed on monitors. The monitor >doesn't care if the image is moving or not, however people want instant >gratification. >Video really doesn't give them that the same way a discreet image does. >A 10 minute exposure to make a single image is, in effect, a moment in time. >A 10 minute video is, in effect, a waste of 10 minutes unless the person >actually knows something about shooting video, and most people don't.
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