If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#11
|
|||
|
|||
"Steve Franklin" wrote in message ... Hi all... Was just thinking the other day, what with video fast increasing resolution do you think there will come a time where certain fields of photography will not be around any more? E.g Take sports photography. Say video cams in 5 years time has the same resolution as todays high end digital slrs. At 25fps (PAL) why would you pay a photographer for his image of a say the exact moment when Juan Pablo Montoya hits the wall at 180 miles per hour, when you could get the video editor to go through the footage 2 seconds before and after the crash and pick the best of 100 images? The same goes for Tennis, Football and all the other high speed sports. Will the fly-fishing Cartier-Bresson 'Decisive Moment' model of photographer be replaced by the John West driftnet fishing model. I notice you neglected to mention curling, the most photo-friendly sport in existence. To me, capturing that frenetic broom action is the sole reason cameras were invented. |
#12
|
|||
|
|||
Steve Franklin wrote: Hi all... Was just thinking the other day, what with video fast increasing resolution do you think there will come a time where certain fields of photography will not be around any more? E.g Take sports photography. Say video cams in 5 years time has the same resolution as todays high end digital slrs. At 25fps (PAL) why would you pay a photographer for his image of a say the exact moment when Juan Pablo Montoya hits the wall at 180 miles per hour, when you could get the video editor to go through the footage 2 seconds before and after the crash and pick the best of 100 images? The same goes for Tennis, Football and all the other high speed sports. Will the fly-fishing Cartier-Bresson 'Decisive Moment' model of photographer be replaced by the John West driftnet fishing model. Whereas this might happen someday I rather doubt that it will happen in 5 years, or even 10 for that matter. With more and more DH video there will be more stills taken off of video but it still will not compare to a good still camera. Still I expect the frame rate of digital cameras to continue to increase. But someone who is really good can time the shutter very well, so the fame rate would have to be very high before you could do better then just pushing the shutter at the right time. Scott |
#13
|
|||
|
|||
"Scott W" wrote in message oups.com... Steve Franklin wrote: Hi all... Was just thinking the other day, what with video fast increasing resolution do you think there will come a time where certain fields of photography will not be around any more? E.g Take sports photography. Say video cams in 5 years time has the same resolution as todays high end digital slrs. At 25fps (PAL) why would you pay a photographer for his image of a say the exact moment when Juan Pablo Montoya hits the wall at 180 miles per hour, when you could get the video editor to go through the footage 2 seconds before and after the crash and pick the best of 100 images? The same goes for Tennis, Football and all the other high speed sports. Will the fly-fishing Cartier-Bresson 'Decisive Moment' model of photographer be replaced by the John West driftnet fishing model. Whereas this might happen someday I rather doubt that it will happen in 5 years, or even 10 for that matter. With more and more DH video there will be more stills taken off of video but it still will not compare to a good still camera. Still I expect the frame rate of digital cameras to continue to increase. But someone who is really good can time the shutter very well, so the fame rate would have to be very high before you could do better then just pushing the shutter at the right time. Scott Walked up to the sink and took this on the first shot http://harryphotos.com/droplogo.jpg took about another 200 and didnt get one as good lol. |
#14
|
|||
|
|||
Still photography and vidography are opposite sides of the same coin.
However, the art forms are much different in that Still photography requires much talent to get the shot in time. Where as the vidiographer just pulls the trigger and has the pick of the liter following the event. It's two different perspectives. The still photographer will always be necessary for still shots. The vidiographer on the other hand will never require the same skill or talent to capture the moment. Robert King "Alan Browne" wrote in message ... Steve Franklin wrote: Hi all... Was just thinking the other day, what with video fast increasing resolution do you think there will come a time where certain fields of photography will not be around any more? 1) The resolution of video is nowhere close to a $200 P&S digital, never mind an SLR at 5 Mpix and more. I'm not even sure if the dynamic range of video is up to that of the same P&S. 2) For video, the eye is following action and movement. Not the same experience as photogrphy at all. 3) Star Wars is rendered at something on the order of 1.4 Mpix / frame, yet gives the audience a very, very rich visual experience (which hasn't helped the dialog one bit). 4) Photography (still) and videography have different objectives in what they capture. 5) You can disperse dozens of still photographers with sparse equipment loads all over a sports event. Video is less flexible, and more BW is needed to relay the signal to the van. (Each camera can tape too, of course). So, no I don't think the 'still' photographer will disappear from sporting events. -- -- r.p.e.35mm user resource: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpe35mmur.htm -- r.p.d.slr-systems: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpdslrsysur.htm -- [SI] gallery & rulz: http://www.pbase.com/shootin -- e-meil: Remove FreeLunch. |
#15
|
|||
|
|||
"Alan Browne" wrote in message
... Steve Franklin wrote: Hi all... Was just thinking the other day, what with video fast increasing resolution do you think there will come a time where certain fields of photography will not be around any more? Snip So, no I don't think the 'still' photographer will disappear from sporting events. "rlking" wrote in message nk.net... Still photography and vidography are opposite sides of the same coin. However, the art forms are much different in that Still photography requires much talent to get the shot in time. Where as the vidiographer just pulls the trigger and has the pick of the liter following the event. It's two different perspectives. The still photographer will always be necessary for still shots. The vidiographer on the other hand will never require the same skill or talent to capture the moment. Well, I don't know if I'd consider the sports photographer a true photographer in the classic sense of the word-- he or she is mostly a five-frames-per-second videographer, standing on the sidelines with an image-stablized, pre-focussed long lens, a pre-metered exposure setting and holding a finger on the shutter button as a play unfolds, hoping that one of the cranked-out auto exposures will catch "the moment", as they often do. Nothing wrong with that, of course, but sports "photography" is to still photography as MacDonalds is to good home cooking. |
|
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
FA: Photography books, many good titles | Tom Loepp | General Equipment For Sale | 0 | December 28th 04 01:44 AM |
Digital Imaging vs. (Digital and Film) Photography | Bob Monaghan | Medium Format Photography Equipment | 9 | June 19th 04 05:48 PM |
Study Photography in Venice | Venice School of Photography | Fine Art, Framing and Display | 0 | February 13th 04 06:17 PM |
Aerial Photography from Alaska, Yukon Territory & beyond >> S.P.A.M. | Jerry L. | General Equipment For Sale | 0 | December 3rd 03 04:57 AM |
Aerial Photography from Alaska, Yukon Territory & beyond | PNW | Fine Art, Framing and Display | 0 | December 1st 03 11:19 AM |