This frame from Joi Ito shows how video from newer digital SLRs lets people blur backgrounds to emphasize a particular subject, something that's harder with conventional videocameras.
(Credit: Joi Ito (Creative Commons attribution))The photography world is beginning to adapt to a new phase in the marriage of cameras and computing technology: the arrival of SLRs that can shoot not just still images but video, too.
The change began with the arrival of image sensors, the light-sensitive microchips that replaced film. Now two new SLRs--Nikon's D90 and Canon's EOS 5D Mark II--are taking another step away from the film paradigm, following in the footsteps of point-and-shoot cameras by recording continuous video and not just still images. Doubtless video will gradually spread to other SLR models and makers.
"This camera is the ultimate 'equalizer'--you no longer need half-million dollars' worth of high definition video cameras and lenses delivered by a truck with its own driver to shoot a high-definition film in low light--you just need a $2,700 camera and a few lenses," gushed professional photographer and Canon advisor in New York Vincent Laforet in a blog post about a 5D Mark II prototype...
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