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Fashion Video Cameras!

story © Michael Betancourt | published January 3, 2008 | permalink | TwitThis Digg Facebook StumbleUpon  |  



theory: CRITICAL OBSERVATIONS

This Stainless Steel Camera is a sign of the future: the divide between professional and consumer, instead of gradually going away, is going to become ever wider and more obvious. The professional equipment will record high-quality, ready-to-edit footage, and consumer devices will be more concerned with their fashion-sense than with the ability to control the quality or do much with the finished footage. I'm not surprised by this development: it makes sense if you want to gradually eliminate the consumer-as-producer, just gradually do away with consumer tools that are as good as the professional ones.






 
 

 
 
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