The Changing Game
Original Post September 21, 2008
What a renaissance we are experiencing! Never before have we been able to control everything about an image. Never before have we been able to have ultimate flexibility with our workflow. And very soon we will be able to shoot 1080p video at unheard of quality with a $2700 camera. The Canon EOS 5D Mark II is upon us and it is indeed going to change the nature of what DSLR’s are capable of. Sure, Nikon recently released a D90 capable of shooting 720p video, but the new 5D shoots 21MP stills and 1080p video with some of the best lenses in the industry. From the murmurs on the grapevine those in the know claim it has some of the best low light performance of any video camera they have ever seen.
I’m not sure how I feel about DSLR’s shooting video-but I do know that with such a capable camera shooting such fantastic video, photographers are going to be changing how they see the world. Will they stop shooting stills? Absolutely NOT! But what will they do with it? That remains to be seen. It is another fundamental shift in the capabilities of our tools and one that will reverberate through the industry.
Tags: Canon, Photography, Technology