A New Step!

Not much time to blog, so I’ll keep this brief. For those of you that follow the photography industry, you have no doubt noticed trends in photography give way to technology: auto-focus revolutionized pretty much everything, and so did the leap to digital imaging. Within the past two months, the photography industry is moving in another step!

Both the Canon 5D Mk II and the Nikon D90, both of which are not out as of this posting, but will be before the year is out, are the two DSLR cameras that are the game changers. It’s not necessarily the two cameras, but the idea of what they represent. Both shoot High Definition video, along with taking still images at quality levels expected of the two camera manufacturers. I won’t get in to technical specifications with each camera (you can check that out on your own if you like), but the idea that high quality video can be captured in the same body that very high quality still images can be captured in is a move in a direction that may change the way professional and amateur photographers perceive the direction of their craft. I already have, and so has Vincent Laforet.

One of the top PJs (short for Photo Journalists) in the industry, Laforet got his hands on a pre-release 5D Mk II, which shoots full 1080p HD video, and put together a short video that you can check out on his blog. The video quality is simply awesome, and I have shown it to several multimedia, video, and electronic communications gurus, and they all were excited! The reason I really mention Laforet is he stated in his blog that he will no longer view things that he shoots the same way, and to paraphrase, he will approach what he does in a new direction, at least for some of his projects.

That says quite a bit to have one of the world’s premiere photographers say that. Incorporating high quality video with high quality stills is not a new idea, but it’s now available (or will be in a couple months)! Take it for what it’s worth, but this could be a new, revolutionizing step in professional photography…maybe not as life changing as auto-focus and digital photography, but nonetheless, if used right, a monumental punch to a stay-on-top-of-everything part of life we call COMMUNICATING!

More to come…

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