Digital BW, The Print

steveabrink wrote:
> I know this is not related to B&W printing but there seems to be a lot 
> of interest in the new Canon 5dMKii with an affordadable 21MP full 
> frame imager.  I'm certainly interested, but does anyone see real uses 
> for the HD video imaging capability for us fine art types? And should 
> that bother us ...  
>
> This question of the convergence of video and still photography -- and 
> apparently this is just the beginning... I could see it for working 
> photojournalsits but thats about it.  But, I'd prefer to have 
> a 'stills' camera only and therefore less dollars, and an interface 
> designed purely for still photography... 
>  
> SteveB
>   

I'll second that. I've got no use for video. But if I did, why would I 
want a still camera for it? I would want a camera designed to take 
advantage of what video can do and make it easy to do it. And that's not 
what a full frame 35mm DSLR is about.

I would much prefer that the video capabilities be left out of my still 
camera. But if it's put in, I can always ignore it. Like I ignore all 
the text editing capabilities in Photoshop.

Besides, most of the interest I see coming at this is from one guy who's 
more interested in video than in stills as far as I can tell. I don't 
know why this is, but it sure seems to be true.
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Bruce Watson