Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/12/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I agree and I HATE it, but that's what is expected today. The NPPA is focused totally on video these days. I've seen some impressive video journalism but I still believe in the power of the still image. I'm so glad I'm not starting out in the business today with the necessity of learning video, too. Tina On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 5:39 PM, kyle cassidy on the LUG < leicaslacker at gmail.com> wrote: > I especially think the reporter being sent out with a 5d and told to report > on the story, get stills & video and file is wrong-headed. Reporting news, > photographing news, and videographing news are all very different > disciplines and the public isn't being served by asking one person to do it > all simply because there is now a small device capable of everything. > > > On Dec 2, 2010, at 5:36 PM, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote: > > > kyle cassidy on the LUG offered: > > Subject: Re: [Leica] 2010 Yearbook & Kodachrome > > > > > >> Some time in ... 1999 or 2000 I photographed an unexpected and somewhat > volatile interchange between two mayoral candidates. Realizing that I had > something special, I dropped the rest of the day, rushed home, processed > the > film made a fast print and called the local paper and was told by the city > desk that they'd already gone to press with a digital image someone got in > an hour before me. I realized that day that film was over in terms of news > photography because the guy with the digital shot was always going to get > there before you and he'd be off at the next assignment beating you again > while you were developing. It's only going to get faster with wireless SD > cards sending everything back to the mother ship while the event's going > on.... > > > > Hi Kyle, > > In the newspaper world of today if you are not intune with the instant > world automatically every second, you will get beat on any assignment no > matter who you were in the "good old days" of news photography. I mean, > even > if you were considered the "most fantastic news photographer in the world" > and still screwing around with film because you didn't like digital, as it > was just a fad?" > > And even if you could walk on water, drinking scotch and shooting with > one hand tied behind your back! You are history! > > > > The new kid on the block with the right electronic hook-up will blow you > out of the water before you even think to take the picture. Actually even > before you put the camera to eye, his picture will be on the way to the > press for printing on the other side of the world! > > > > Quite frankly it's a world I'm quite happy to say.... "Boy am I glad I > did my tenure as a news guy a long, long, long, really longtime ago!" Then > we throw in many newspapers require their "news-photographers" use cameras' > to shoot video and stills at the same time! And if you can't do it, then > your "last pay check will probably be your last pay cheque!" :-( > > > > ted > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com