DSLR's are here to stay!

A great blog post has been put up tonight by ‘El Skid’ and I recommend anyone interested in/mildly obsessed with DSLR tech and the community that has subsequently been spawned go give it a read.

The only things I will add to El Skids comments are a positive note that DSLR’s are here to stay. Technology will change and the Red Queen will keep running but that doesn’t mean it’s the end of DSLR for video applications, hell no! As mentioned on the blog post linked above DSLR’s have captivated us with their glorious large sensors, cumbersome ergonomics and head nod to the pre-video full manual age. They really have grabbed us by the figurative balls, seeing Reverie when it was first released blew me away to see something like a 35mm still in motion, the possibilities to shoot video like that was and is amazing.

Cameras like the AF-100 will be a great asset on a shoot but I can think of countless situations where the size and capabilities of a DSLR will simply outshine the AF-100/101 and the like. Iron Man 2 for example used the 5D markII for their F1 crash scenes to get shots that a large and extremely expensive 35mm camera could not. While I’m saddened that the full-blown DSLR tech craze might be coming to an end I look forward to being able to use 7D’s, 5D’s, and the future HD DSLR’s alongside high quality video cameras and hope that this will not distract people from what really matters, content.

willus.