Like A DVR For Life
July 8th, 2009 | people I know
Clayton Cubitt: I think photography is moving towards seamlessness. The future of photography won’t be about capturing a decisive moment by timing a shot perfectly. Cameras will capture everything – thirty or sixty frames per second. Then you choose. Like a DVR for life.
Tokion Magazine: Doesn’t that sound like cheating?
Clayton Cubitt: If you think a photographer’s creativity comes from their shutter finger, then it’s cheating. But if you think the creativity comes from the setup, the perspective, from the editing and the craft, then I think it’s no big deal.
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It is not cheating, it only enhances your probabilities of getting something decent, if you are a shit photographer you will still get shit results.
Of course it is only a subjective opinion, i use photo reference, video recordings, software and a 21 Cintix Wacom tablet to create my work, i am cheating?
I want quantum photography. Where you click the button and your camera takes an infinite number of shots of that one instant. Then you flip through them and chose the one in which your family member is actually a penguin.
It doesn’t matter how you did the magic, what really matters is the final effect.
That’s basically an extension of what many photographers do already, especially sports photogs, though not at that framerate. Most higher-end cameras sport a “continuous” shooting mode, whereby a number of frames are shot in rapid succession. Currently it’s usually at anywhere from 4-10 FPS or so, which is a limitation of current mechanical shutters. Rip through a dozen or so frames, and later pick out which one you like the best.
Seige’s example would be a big step forward, but arguably it’s not out of reach even now; some digital cameras (Nikon D90 for one) record video in motion jpeg streams where each frame is a separate jpeg image, which can then be grabbed as a separate image.
“Then you choose.”
And that can be the biggest pain in the ass.
Yeah, my friend’s a pro photographer and my understanding was photography — especially sports photography — essentially already was this.
Using a tool is not cheating. There is still work to be done. Different tools, different work.
Casio’s EX-F1 already does a little of that. It can pre-shoot at up to 60fps and keep 60 shots in the buffer. So you get the shots from before and after you took the picture. Same with video, can be pre-recording and stores 5 seconds (up to 1200 fps) worth in the buffer. Under $1000usd.