photography dead? A little writeup on frame grabbing and a few samples

[Steve G]

The sports /event shoot is very much an Epic shoot. Happy shooting!

Given the extreme control of sports events rights, certainly here in europe, I suspect that sports photographers will find it hard to use an epic cinema camera as a "stills" camera. Sky, who own most of the broadcast rights to a lot of sports like premier league football in the UK are very "hands on" when it comes to policing matches. Sports photographers with HDSLR's who shoot stills have to sign contracts that state that they will not film with their stills cameras, so I suspect that turning up at a major event which has sold broadcast rights, as an official photographer, with an epic, and claiming that you are only going to use it for stills, would be a non starter imho.

[Taylor Morrison]

Given the extreme control of sports events rights, certainly here in europe, I suspect that sports photographers will find it hard to use an epic cinema camera as a "stills" camera. Sky, who own most of the broadcast rights to a lot of sports like premier league football in the UK are very "hands on" when it comes to policing matches. Sports photographers with HDSLR's who shoot stills have to sign contracts that state that they will not film with their stills cameras, so I suspect that turning up at a major event which has sold broadcast rights, as an official photographer, with an epic, and claiming that you are only going to use it for stills, would be a non starter imho.

Bingo! and there it is....As the motion and stills world collide, the Sports /Events arena's are on the front line of the shitstorm of rights management. I am totally walking on eggshells at this point with these questions. But the possibilities are intriguing!

[Hrvoje Simic]

Part of the job is being fit enough to do it. Running four hours with a DSLR sounds like a holiday, try run and gunning eight or 12 hour events handheld (or worse, with a tripod if you have to move it with you) with a 20-30 pound rig without an assistant.

Part of the job for a photographer is being fit enough for running around with a heavier, cinema camera system to shoot stills ?

[Jaakko Rinne]

Part of the job for a photographer is being fit enough for running around with a heavier, cinema camera system to shoot stills ?

For the photographer whose job includes doing so? Yes. For every photographer on the planet? Obviously not. The point was that not being fit enough to do something is not a reason, but an excuse - unless, of course, you have a disability that absolutely prohibits you from ever getting fit enough.

[Lee Saxon]

Part of the job is being fit enough to do it. Running four hours with a DSLR sounds like a holiday, try run and gunning eight or 12 hour events handheld (or worse, with a tripod if you have to move it with you) with a 20-30 pound rig without an assistant.

I find your logic backwards. No matter how fit and strong I am I will always pick the lightest rig that can get the job done. For high quality stills, that's not a Scarlet.

[Jaakko Rinne]

I find your logic backwards. No matter how fit and strong I am I will always pick the lightest rig that can get the job done. For high quality stills, that's not a Scarlet.

Obviously you always pick the rig that's best for the job. But if you can't handle a heavier rig when you need it you either don't get the job or you fail the job.