Simply amazing
Posted on September 23rd, 2008 by Frank Barth-Nilsen
Vincent Laforet have now released the video he shot with the new Canon EOS 5 MKII. The quality is stunningly good. He has also posted a behind the scenes video. Forget the samples you have seen on Vimeo and YouTube. This guy knows what he’s doing.
Well I guess I have to eat dirt. I agree that this is simply amazing. Maybe too amazing? I get the feeling that this is done in a very controlled environment and I still remain a skeptic. It will be interesting to see some more samples from every day happenings. Is it a change maker? I’m not convinced about that either.
Even though I love your blog, I’m not certain that the winds of change is blowing towards more mojo. My belief is that we will see more citizen mojos. Some of them will be good, many of them awful, simply chasing stardom. Is still believe that good old fashion digging and quality is the future for media companies. For the newspapers I think that this sort of service is very interesting for the photographer, not so much for reporters.
Good thing you came to that conclusion yourself
About eating the dirt I mean.
One way or the other, technical innovations and altered patterns in people’s behavior on the net changes the way media has to work and live. My thoughts about the changes is that media has to attack, understand the new ways of the net and simply offer the best content for new platforms.
I agree that media still has to dig for stories, because a lot of those stories won’t be discovered and told by others, but I think that a lot of journalist are hung up in the old ways of reporting and communicating with an audience. We have to change like the rest of the society.