The buzz word today is VIDEO.
Its creating quite a stir on many photo websites and blogs. There is great passion for and against video in a still camera.
Personally, I have no use for video. Many of my cameras have had video but never used it. However, the profession is changing especially in photo journalism and internet reportage. We now have so called "webisodes" and other areas of interest to the younger photographers who really have no attachment to cameras as such. We, and I speak for myself and many like me who began decades ago, have an attachment to cameras as cameras and video cameras as video cameras. there is a wall that keeps the two media separate and it gives us comfort. This is the way we have been functioning all these years and we can not even accept that one day video will be accepted as the norm in a camcorder. Just today, when I saw the new Olympus digital Pen, I became all excited. This reaction to a basically limited camera is really my way at going back to simpler times when a camera looked like a camera. I have Leicas that I no longer use and always lusted over an M8. Sadly the latter is not a very successful design, kind of a works in progress, and it's somewhat overpriced for what it does. You get where I'm coming from.
To the newer photographers without all the nostalgic baggage the inclusion of video is absolutely normal and welcome.
It's the way it is. Camera makers try all they can to get an edge on the competition. At this point in time, Canon has the edge at least on video.
This is reminiscent of the coming of DIGITAL. Many photographers who found this new technology strange, many were computer phobic, were totally against it and prognosticated it's irrelevance and demise. To many wishful thinkers, it would go away; it was only a passing fancy. Well, as they say, the rest is history. The chance was not easy but it had to be made in order to stay relevant and in business.
So,if and when I get the 5DII, I will never use video but my daughter, Jennifer Galatioto,a superb professional photographer,is bugging me to get a 5DII just because of the video.
C'est la vie. All the best and happy shooting.
Please comment.
Rocco Galatioto
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There should be something that better determines the correctness of a technology apart from the appeal and wow factor, the lights, the sounds and the cost. There is of course the application of the technology, in this case a camera, the benefit of which can only be reflected upon after some serious work and evaluation. For my taste I have a penchant for medium format film work and therefore the results that I "see" through comparisons and evaluations are biased, but I have digital cameras also and enjoy the results on their own respective terms. Advantages and disadvantages... a debate rolls in my head and I continue toward a stride of managing each tool with applications that are presented. The intercession of a still camera with good quality video functionality onto the scene wrinkles the tidiness that I have struggled to maintain with film and digital. There is some place for a 5DII, but I shy away from mixing the two mediums and approaches as different as still and video.
ReplyDeleteI should perhaps abandon altogether the comfort of routine and nostalgic technique for the taste of the new and the openness of the still camera digital video possibilities, but then again I prefer the careful work that comes through the 120 format and the feel of the weight that the images render when there is good light and good synergy. I'll continue to observe the developments and continue with my hybrid digital/film still image work.
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Fernando,
ReplyDeleteThank you for taking the time to reply and in such a thoughtful manner. When I said that technology marches on, I really did not fully explore the issue. The new generation of photographers have never uses medium format. They do not know what 120 film is or what an enlarging lens is. It's not unlike the CD versus vinyl debate some time ago. Many youngsters take photos with their cell phones. These will eventually do video also. I know that those of us who value quality remain baffled at such events but as I said this is what it is. There is a diminution in the appreciation of beauty and quality.
It's just to bad.
All the best
Rocco Galatioto
I consider myself part of the "new generation" and have used Medium Format...ahem...with a digital back that is. What is 120mm??? I know what it is. I've seen it in antique shops...hahaha. Only kidding. I am impressed with the quality of writing by both you Rocco and Fernando. True passion.
ReplyDeleteI have to attest to the amazing quality of the video on the 5D11. My friend Miguel brought footage he shot while in India and we watched it RAW on our flat screen. It was like watching a national geographic film. No lie.
I want it so I can film YOU!
Jen,
ReplyDeleteKeep working on me and we will see what happens.
YD