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I think you guys are being a bit too short sighted. This shows some pretty neat "out-of-the-box" thinking about photography. In the past you were restricted t

by Corrado 16y ago

I think you guys are being a bit too short sighted. This shows some pretty neat "out-of-the-box" thinking about photography. In the past you were restricted to taking lots and lots of photos to possibly get one that worked. With video streams you can capture all you want and then go back and find the gems; probably stuff that you didn't even see the first time through. Think about a play at your child's school; while your concentrating on your kid some other kid on the other end of the stage does something funny. Now you can go back "in time" and grab both shots and even a short section of video for context. The whole thing makes me think of Blade Runner and the ability to shoot such high definition "streams" that you can "zoom - enhance" them all day long. Pretty cool if you ask me.

slantyyz 16y ago
*Think about a play at your child's school; while your concentrating on your kid some other kid on the other end of the stage does something funny. Now you can go back "in time" and grab both shots and even a short section of video for context.* I'm not sure that is the case. The weakest link in photography and videography is the human holding the camera. No amount of technology can fix that. What does that mean? People with camcorders tend to zoom and pan like there's no tomorrow (classic case of "just because you can doesn't mean you should"). So assuming that a normal person is shooting their kid's play, they probably don't know to shoot it wide, meaning that the funny moment will be still offscreen, since the camera's zoomed in on their kid. And I haven't even mentioned any depth-of-field settings yet. Some of the ideas in the concept are neat and make sense in theory, but in practice, you're just going to end up with way more video that none of your friends and family want to watch and are too polite to tell you so.
Tamerlin 16y ago
"This shows some pretty neat "out-of-the-box" thinking about photography." Not really, it's just an extension of burst mode, which a LOT of photographers used as a crutch -- and continue to use as a crutch. Burst mode has value, but a lot of photographers who haven't bothered to learn how to see think that it's a way to avoid the effort of learning, and as such abuse it.

by Corrado 16y ago

slantyyz 16y ago

*Think about a play at your child's school; while your concentrating on your kid some other kid on the other end of the stage does something funny. Now you can go back "in time" and grab both shots and even a short section of video for context.* I'm not sure that is the case. The weakest link in photography and videography is the human holding the camera. No amount of technology can fix that. What does that mean? People with camcorders tend to zoom and pan like there's no tomorrow (classic case of "just because you can doesn't mean you should"). So assuming that a normal person is shooting their kid's play, they probably don't know to shoot it wide, meaning that the funny moment will be still offscreen, since the camera's zoomed in on their kid. And I haven't even mentioned any depth-of-field settings yet. Some of the ideas in the concept are neat and make sense in theory, but in practice, you're just going to end up with way more video that none of your friends and family want to watch and are too polite to tell you so.

Tamerlin 16y ago

"This shows some pretty neat "out-of-the-box" thinking about photography." Not really, it's just an extension of burst mode, which a LOT of photographers used as a crutch -- and continue to use as a crutch. Burst mode has value, but a lot of photographers who haven't bothered to learn how to see think that it's a way to avoid the effort of learning, and as such abuse it.