video2zero

I’ve owned Nikon SLRs for many years. Canon HDV is my camera of choice today but I still favor Nikon for stills, and like all Nikon gearheads I read kenrockwell.com.

Was Rockwell really serious when he wrote his much travelled “Why the camera doesn’t matter”?
- Yes, he was indeed, but he slid in several important caveats, that might just lead you to follow his example, rather than his advice, and stick with the fancicams.

It’s not about pixels - it’s about control.

To balance quality and cost add longevity. The longer the shelf life the more revenue/value generated, the more you can spend on producing. The more resources avaialable for production…

David Eun VP of Google/YouTube: “high-quality specialty niche programming. “That’s what drove cable TV,” Eun said, “and that will be a sweet spot for Internet video.”

Spurred on by the spectacular success of YouTube, media departments and newsrooms around the country rushed to flood the net with 3rd rate video under the banner “no-one cares about quality anymore”.
Now it seems that advertisers and viewers do care.

Finally a major news organization rejects the “online video is the future of news” mantra/hysteria for a more reasoned “online video is part of the future of news” approach.

Melissa Worden links to an interview with Pete Clifton, head of BBC News Interactive. Speaking at the Future of News Conference Clifton announced that we [...]