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retrofocus wrote:
I heard a similar way of saying before. It came from Kodak in regard to digital technology when they decided to stick to film.
Yes and that's why Canon is at least doing enough to try to stay on top. Canon knows the Kodak case all too well, I mean, they won (back then) by pushing digital. Kodak could have done the same, but lost by putting the short-term interest before the long-term.
Also the pulling of still frames out of video, I do this today, at least with decent results. They're good enough for online use. 2MP is fine for that, or even for making (small) prints if that's what you are into.
It's not a 'magic bullet', you still have to know what you are doing. Follow photographic principles, find good lighting, set up the shot correctly, and so on. But it's basically like having a 30fps burst mode, though not raw, and only 2MP. Future models could do something like the digital cameras of old, ie. that Olympus around the turn of the century that had pre-capture when you press the shutter, it was in essence always capturing frames and saved the last 10 or so captures only when the shutter was pressed. Meaning if I was doing sports, I could follow the action and press the shutter only when something interesting happened. Global (electronic) shutter, some other advancements are helpful here.
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