The New School of Videographers

Provataki writes "This editorial discusses the impending explosion of hobbyist artistic videographers, in the same way that happened with digital photography just a few short years ago. The article claims that it's time camera manufacturers create camcorders equivalent in principle to the cheap DSLRs that we currently enjoy. Some beautiful HD footage, shot by amateurs, is shown too."

An interesting counterview

[Anonymous Coward]

Are digital cameras (and even worse, camcorders), really a good thing? This well-written and thoughtful article [shelleytherepublican.com] argues that the answer is no.

Re:An interesting counterview

[Bemopolis]

Or anything really. Why do guns always make their way into "innocent uses" debates. It's a device designed to kill or injure, even when used with the best intentions. The list of examples is infinite: Baseball bat, carving knife, wrench, rope, candlestick, piece of pipe.....

Guns have a beneficial primary use for their owners: they allow them to pretend that the size of their genitalia are not three sigma off average. This is why big trucks driven by city-dwelling windshield cowboys always have gun racks in the back window. (It's also why a lot of these yahoos blow their toes off when "cleaning their gun". Which they do. A lot.) Without guns, the streets would be awash in lane-spanning H5s with horns that play "Pour Some Sugar On Me" while listening to right-wing talk radio spout off about feminists emasculating our boys by making them watch Dora learn about foreign lands. And no thank you — I lived long enough in Houston thankyouverymuch.

And speaking as an alumnus of the University of Texas, I am thankful no one has found a way to go to the top of a bell tower and snipe people for two hours with a pair of pliers. Yet. Although, to be fair, Chucky-boy did have a pipe wrench with him...

Re:An interesting counterview

[Fishead]

I kinda agree with Shelly. My wife's Grandmother should be classified as a "terrorist" with her digital camera. It used to be that the high cost of film and developing would somewhat limit how much she could terrorize everyone at family functions, but since she got her digital camera a few years ago, along with several large memory sticks, the terror has been unrelenting!