Hmm I absolutely agree with the notion of making stuff more available, more democratic but I *do* wonder if there isn't a rather interesting compensatory process going on in us, as viewers, as the technical possibilities improve - we adjust mentally & so even though, never mind the latest HD camera, my six year old Canon MV 300i produces stuff that would have been *inconceivable* twenty years ago, those with money & the concentrated centralised resources, corporations, professional broadcasters &c, are always on the whole going to look better, *in purely technical terms* because our mental bar is constantly raised by whatever is cutting edge. Its a bit like special effects. Of course nowadays, when - what do you call it, where the motion is screened at the back?- looks wonderful and clunky & nostalgic & occasionally risible to *everyone*, I'm also finding that I read computer generated imagery, especially crowd scenes, with a much more cynical eye -the patterns leap out...& if that's true now then in 20-30 years the artifice will be completely evident. (Best 'special effect' in the world ever? - IMO the "coming back to life" reverse-thing in 'Orphee'. It's the poetry, not the technique) So the point I'm making in a rather laboured way is that a similar process is at work in "regular" image making... I think where the small independent maker of moving image can score is in the content, in the broadest sense ( I don't just mean what we choose to look at but what we do with it & how). That's why some of the most interesting work I've seen is made using mobile phone cams or fairly basic kit, or stop motion or appropriated footage -you get my drift- but with lashings of the poetic imagination that an industry which is focus grouped to death & committed to an entirely chimerical attempt to "replicate" the look of "reality" can't even begin to conceive of. best michael
--- Rupert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Looks amazing. I love Canon cameras - i have an old > Canon XL1. > colours, low-light and lens all amazing. (even > though I mostly just > use my nokia or my kodak for vlogging.) > > Also saw this JVC on Videomaker.com's weekly vlog > last week, > announced at CES - costs more but full HD and 5 > hours of hard drive > recording: > > http://www.jvc.com/press/index.jsp?urlid=MPPress&item=565 > > It seems incredible that AT LAST we can have this > kind of image power > in consumer hands. professional cameras with lesser > quality > cost tens or hundreds of thousands just a few years > ago. 2 weeks > ago, I saw a rough cut of feature a friend of mine > had shot on a > shoestring. Visually *astonishing*, but shot on a > £2k Sony HD in the > middle of nowhere in Yorkshire. i've been waiting > for this level of > quality and price to come for so long - it opens so > many more doors. > > "to me the great hope is that now... people who > normally wouldn't be > making movies are going to be making them, and > suddenly one day some > little fat girl in ohio is going to be the new > mozart and make a > beautiful film with her father's camcorder > and for once the so called professionalism about > movies will be > smashed - forever. and it will really become an art > form. that's my > opinion." francis coppola, hearts of darkness, > 1988. > > "the future is now! the future is now! the future > is now!" > > Rupert > > http://www.fatgirlinohio.org > http://feeds.feedburner.com/fatgirlinohio > > > > On 1 Feb 2007, at 23:39, WWWhatsup wrote: > > [looks good, 24p too, I guess street price will be > less] > > Canon Coming Out with $1,300 HD Camera > > High-definition cameras are slowly trickling down to > the > point where they're affordable. And Canon, which > makes > some of the best non-HD camcorders, now plays in > that > market. The new camcorder offers real benefits over > the > previous model. Our story has details on what it > does and > when it will be available. > > Canon Expands HD Line-up: > http://ct.eletters.whatsnewnow.com/rd/cts? > d=181-805-1-411-255402-45903-0-0-0-1 > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > WWWhatsup NYC > http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been > removed] > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >
