The end of the world of photography has finally arrived!!
Just saw an ad for a Panasonic Lumix camera. Here is what the ad says:
That moment. That once in a lifetime miss it if you blink millisecond of perfection.
Your phone will miss it Your DSLR will miss it. Your eye will miss it.
Never miss it again!
Record 4K Video Pause on any frame Print in high resolution.
So as I see it, you shoot video, find a good frame and make a still file out of it. Forget waiting for a moment. Just shoot everything and figure it out later!!!
From their website:
Print ready high resolution 8.8 megapixel still frames can be recorded during video capture, making future proofed Hybrid Photography a reality for any photographer. [4096×2160 – 8.847MP.
So the images won’t really be reproduction quality for print, but fine for web use, which is where most of the photography today is being used. Soon they will ramp up the quality, and there goes photography down the drain!!
Oh well, that is how most photographers shoot these days anyway. When I go to a concert and hear cameras clicking as fast as the performers are moving, it is obvious that people are shooting hundreds and hundreds of JPEG’s and picking the one they like when they get home. This isn’t much different!