technologically advanced camera rig

[Leon]

Edited July 27, 2013 by mrwall

[Phil]

Good God!

[Ian]

I'm crying with laughing here    what a wally

[fuzzyedges]

Looks like my hrfc flashgun rig for macro minus  the i pod and all the gps nintendo rubbish and a flash in place of the mic

 

In fact up to 1 min 56 it looks like its brother without the filter and flashes added , after that it just gets stupid

[Guest DaveW]

I still cannot understand if you want to take video why you would buy basically a stills camera to do it? However I expect everything now has to be the electronic equivalent of a Swiss Army Knife, just as the mobile phone has moved from its original prime voice function to be a camera and a Play Station.  I can't help recalling the old saying "jack of all trades, master of none" though. Guess I'm getting old!

 

However eventually I expect video and stills will be combined into a single camera type, with the video camera winning and stills will simply be selected frames from a video sequence, which after all is really what a motor drive sequence is anyway.

[NannyFerret]

ROFL............................Crackpot.

[Leon]

have you not seen the RED cameras, does something silly like 100fps at 16mp, they froze a "video" and used the image for a poster, I'll see if I can find a link

[Leon]

[NannyFerret]

The pictures were good, but how time consuming. I would give up after the first hundred viewings to pick out the ones that I wanted.

[Guest]

great laugh but on a serious note there is an awful lot of video being shot on DSLR's. The client I am working with at the moment had a german company in and they brought a German art house film crew in to do a business video. it was shot entirely on DSLR's 

[Korky]

That's all well and good, but where would I put my flask and butties?

 

Korky

[Guest DaveW]

I still wonder Richard as the distinctions between the two disappear if we will finish up with a single camera for both disciplines and the dedicated stills camera will eventually largely disappear?  The problem at the moment seems to be fast and large enough memory storage to accommodate long video runs from the higher sensor quality as presently used in a stills camera, but as with digital v. film that will eventually be overcome and prove good enough. When that happens it does not make good manufacturing sense to continue to produce two different types of camera when one provides both functions, therefore provides larger manufacturing runs, meaning economies of scale and greater profits, plus perhaps cheaper purchase price?

 

As with all these things it never matters what the tiny few prefer and would like to buy, simply what the vast mass of camera buyers will purchase.  Minorities can often become too small for industry to cater for, as is becoming the case with the few film users who might like to buy a new film camera, even though most manufacturers have stopped making them because the market is now too small to be economic.