Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/04/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dirk Halstead, former Time White House photographer, wrote something which I believe he called the Platypus Manifesto - and built the Digital Journalist site around it - in which he held that in the near future, PJs who want to survive will have be able to shoot video as well as stills. If I recall correctly, his point was that not only have we entered a video age, but PJs are more and more finding themselves working for corporations with both print and t.v./web interests, and will want to save money by having employees capable of doing more than one thing - i.e., shooting video and stills. While he is certainly right about this - look at the Wash Post site and note that it always has videos in its photo section - expecting still photographers to be platypuses - platypi? - is, for most, asking the impossible. B. D. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of animal Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 1:43 AM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] late night surfing platypus What does platypus logic mean? simon - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tina Manley" <images@InfoAve.Net> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 3:16 AM Subject: RE: [Leica] late night surfing > At 07:23 PM 4/14/2003 -0400, you wrote: > > Making good film, or video, > >involves allot more than just pointing the camera at what appears to > >be a good still image as people move - just as taking meaningful > >stills involves more than snatching a frame out of a motion sequence. > > > >B. D. > > I agree totally with this, BD. I never understood the platypus logic > of > being both still and moving photographer. It definitely takes different > kinds of "seeing". > > Tina > > > Tina Manley, ASMP > http://www.tinamanley.com > > photos available from: > http://www.pdiphotos.com > http://www.mira.com > http://www.agpix.com > http://www.newscom.com > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see > http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html