Rebel 500D/T1i

[Mitchell]

WOW! canon just came out with the T1i. AND It shoots 20FPS HD movie!!

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0903/09032 ... os500d.asp

[Bonish Photo]

I hate to say it boys and girls, but I think still photography is a dying breed and video is the wave of the future!

They're blending them so seamlessly and making it so hard to not shoot video, I just dont see how still photography is going to last.

When you can shoot in HD Video, and grab frames out of a moving picture and have them be 4 or 5 megapixels, why do you need to be a good photographer?

[noreturnphotos]

Pat and Everyone else, PLEASE TAKE THIS WITH A GRAIN OF SALT...lolol
I would give up most everything to be the still photographer on a movie set!!!!
I came to still photography because of my video business.
Still work has made me a much better videographer!!
I haven't seen any "stills" pulled from the newer cameras, and I haven't looked into them yet. Do these new breed of cameras shoot "interlaced" video or "progressive" ?
We have been using HD "interlaced" cameras the last 3 years, due to expense, but are planning on moving up to "progressive" after this season. I have yet to pull a decent still from any footage I've shot. The nature of video being to capture "moving footage", and a still to "freeze" a moment in time.
If the new cameras are shooting progressive scan footage, ummmm maybe. I don't think video will have the control of, stop values, iso, etc... that you get from a still camera...
The eye and brain views a video and processes it totaly different from a still picture. A still photo makes you stop and take it all in, where a video moves constantly not allowing any time to evaluate the image.
If you go on any movie production set you will find a "still photographer" lurking in the shadows and they are being paid to be there! When ya see the end "credits" rolling along, you will see someones name listed: "Director of Photography".
All video is based on photography.
I have been wrong on many occasions though....
My hillbilly thoughts on it all!

[Mitchell]

'I dont think video is taking over completly, A photographer wont be a profesonal videographer unless you got alot of experience in it. But i do think it Can help photographers in some ways like doing little short clips to post on your website or somthing. I have heard of alot of wedding photogrpaher doing short clips also. But i dont see still photography going away, becuase what about people like Luca that shoots and put images in gallery's and that kind of stuff. there will always be more house being build and people will want pictures to hang in there. also the magazines will need somthing to put in them, even if they do alot of video's on there website. Until we get into electronic magazines that play video i dont think still photography is going anywhere soon.

Mithcell..

[Bonish Photo]

I agree with you guys in the fact that it's not going away tomorrow, but I'm thinking the future of still photography is in jeparady.

Now granted, you need to know your way around both a still camera and a video camera to be worth a grain of salt with either, but the manufacturers are making it so simple to use both, and intertwine them effortlessly that I cant see a still camera being a mainstay in the distant future.

There will always be the rouge shooters who only shoot one or the other, but I'm thinking to be competitive, you're going to need to know how to shoot both.

[peter nap]

I kind of agree that video is taking over, but only for the fellow taking family pictures, etc.
Both Video and still are art forms as well as information recording.

Still will always have it's place and video will always have it;s place and watercolors will always have it's place.

Rarely will you see the three overlap except at the kids birthday party.

[Bonish Photo]

For the working professional, many of this overlap we're talking about has already taken place.

With the downsizing of many of the daily newspapers and magazines and with most of them moving to web only, there is no real need for a professional photographer and a videographer on staff. They can send one person out in the field with a camera that does both, have them shoot it all in HD and grab a frame or two to post in the story.

Also many of the agencies who ask for Eye-Reporters to submit their info have gotten rid of the jobs of an on-staff photographer. Most publications only use one or two photos, so all the amateurs wanting to get published will submit their photos like gangbusters hoping to have their few minutes of glory. What this does is get the publication or news agency free photos or video clips and save from having to hire a professional

I agree, there will always be still photographers, videographers and artists who work for themselves because they love it and it's a passion, but combining all of them is much larger than you think for the mass media

[Mitchell]

' Until we get into electronic magazines that play video i dont think still photography is going anywhere soon.

Mithcell..

Well here is the start of electronic magizines.

http://blogs.howstuffworks.com/2009/08/ ... magazines/