It was a true game changer (for some), and of course I bought one, although to be fair it was mostly just as an update to my existing 5D, which was my workhorse at the time.Įven so the pressure was seeping through (for me). When the 5D2 came around there had been much made about its video capabilities.
Looking back and perhaps my aversion towards video did actually pre-date the digital era.īack then video and stills shooting were seen as totally different genres, so it was no surprise when photographers were just that, and filmmakers were people with cricked necks and sore shoulders. I even invested in a Hi8 system at one point, which also never got used. I’ve been taking still photos for a living for 30 plus years now, and yet even back in the 90’s I was also tasked with shooting the odd film clip for a company making videos, which were at that time were output to those big and clunky tapes that we used to slot into cranky old machines that sat beneath curved TV screens. Perhaps it is a generational thing? Well, yes, I’m sure that is part of it. How often do you check someone’s Instagram profile and see them terming themselves as storytellers and filmmakers? Well, okay, that’s a whole different argument, but it does perhaps shine a little light into my own personal phobia when it comes to shooting video, or at least towards shooting video on a “real camera” as opposed to a phone or an action camera, which is something I do regularly. Maybe some even see the still images that come out of them as some kind of retro kickback to a bygone era, and it can often seem that way. Perhaps they assume that having a very capable sill camera added to a digital video camera is normal, how it’s always been.
Now, of course, there’s a whole generation of camera users out there who’ve never known any different.
They’ve been seriously incorporated into digital still cameras ever since the Canon EOS 5D Mark 2 came out. Not that movie and video cameras are anything new, not even to me – far from it.
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