On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Darren Addy <[email protected]> wrote: > This thread has (predictably) wandered from my original point, which > was not Video vs Still but > Video as 30fps motor drive to GET to Still. The quality for this is > already here, I think it is more of a question as to whether autofocus > can keep up. > > Think fashion photog with supermodel and fan blowing on hair as she > sets her "looks". Burst of 30 fps video can be used rather than 6 fps > motor drives to multiply the number of "shots" to choose from by a > factor of 5. I see the same thing for sporting events when the moment > of "The Shot" is even more critical. As the football touches the > fingertips or the defensive end hits the QB causing a fumble, you will > have 30 frames per sec (or whatever 4x video is doing by then) to > choose the perfect shot for the cover of SI.
This point may expose a flaw in your proposal. Your proposal (grabbing thousands of indecisive moments at 30fps and hoping a decisive one will be uncovered later) may be valid for a purely spectator event, like sports. In these cases the photographer/videographer is a passive observer of the scene. But for modelling, the photographer is a director of the event. The intent is entirely different. As you are taking stills you observe how the model is reacting and behaving and you direct her (or him) accordingly to improve the results. In effect you create decisive moments and use your sense of timing to grab them as they arrive. You don't just passively fire away with the shotgun shutter and hope you'll snare a good shot. I think you'd get an entirely different interaction happening if you were directing the model while shooting video. You might not manage to get the same intensity level as the stills session achieves. That said, I've seen a documentary where a photog used a RED camera to shoot some modelling stuff at some crazy rate like 1000 FPS 4K images. He did get some truly amazing shots. -- -bmw -- 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.
