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I have a friend (sports photographer) who had a Rep from a well known camera manufacture gleefully tell him in hurried excitement that because their camera shoots in 4k video you can just take stills straight out of the feed and they will be print quality. Funnily enough my mate wasn't as impressed with this as the Rep would have expected. His reply was "Congratulation. You've just killed photography!".
I can see application (sports, action, news and possibly landscape) where this approach will unfortunately creep in and perhaps ultimately replace the still photographers for the major outlets like newpaper, tv and news. My hope for stills though still remains. A still photographer has to be present in the moment, waiting and watching, being aware of things through the view finder but also the "head up" glances into the fray and ready for when that fraction of a second is perfect. Video is more of a head down approach. A different skill. Very difficult to shoot well. Video needs to get every second right while stills concentrate on that one frame. I feel stills are more intentional and here in lies it's soul and the art.
This is no disrespect to video. Video is an art too.
It'd be interesting to see where this goes over the next few years and whether stills get sidelined toward the niche markets.
What is the consensus on here?
I can see application (sports, action, news and possibly landscape) where this approach will unfortunately creep in and perhaps ultimately replace the still photographers for the major outlets like newpaper, tv and news. My hope for stills though still remains. A still photographer has to be present in the moment, waiting and watching, being aware of things through the view finder but also the "head up" glances into the fray and ready for when that fraction of a second is perfect. Video is more of a head down approach. A different skill. Very difficult to shoot well. Video needs to get every second right while stills concentrate on that one frame. I feel stills are more intentional and here in lies it's soul and the art.
This is no disrespect to video. Video is an art too.
It'd be interesting to see where this goes over the next few years and whether stills get sidelined toward the niche markets.
What is the consensus on here?