So, as I mentioned in my post about the digital camera vs. camera phone, the SLR market is booming and can afford to start to take on the higher powers, mainly video.
Well, with cameras like Canon’s EOS 5D Mark II, the dream is a reality. Wired has a great article about the shift. He’re a bit of what they have to say:
“I think this is the holy grail for news photography,” says Randall Greenwell, the director of photography for the Virginian-Pilot, a newspaper in Virginia.
Greenwell says photojournalists are already shooting both stills and video, but using separate equipment for each medium, which is awkward, cumbersome and requires additional training. With a single camera that can do both stills and video, he says, the job of the new-media journalist will be greatly simplified.
It’s funny that I didn’t even think about this aspect of the equation. I’m in the news business and shoot my own photos. I didn’t even think about the ability to bring a third medium into my work with only one camera.
But there is more than just that aspect of the story. Check out the whole article, beacue it’s super interesting.
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