Using A Movie Camera For Stills Is More Significant Than Using A Still Camera For Movies

Why capture the moment when you can select it?

This seems to be the question some high-profile still photographers are asking themselves.

Why work with a camera whose mechanics are based around the idea of capturing a moment plucked from the air -- a snapshot -- when you can simply hit REC on a video camera, capture 24+ photos every second and then, at will, select and choose any of the captured moments you wish?

Up until this point, the factor preventing this mindset was resolution -- the fact that still image resolutions are very high and moving image resolutions are very low.

But the times they have a changed.

Using A Movie Camera For Stills Is More Significant Than Using A Still Camera For Movies