Take another look at Nikon's D60 specs:
http://www.nikonusa.com/template.php?ca ... ctNr=25438
"Stop motion video: Creates a stop-motion animation from a sequence of images for added creative fun to your pictures. "
Since the D60 can take 100 jpegs at 3 fps, you could reasonably take about 30 secs of stop motion animation with this feature. Add the new live-view on the Sony A3xx series, and the rumor of OLED/LCD viewfinders to take the place of the old fashioned optical pentaprism/mirror viewfinders, it seems that the old fashioned way of taking pictures is going away. First, film. Now this. With the higher res live view screens it is much easier to tell if you have focus then looking into a viewfinder which (unless you've got a pro model) probably doesn't even show you 100% of the image!
The next generation of dSLR users will have grown up on P&S cameras that don't even have a viewfinder now. And those P&S took video. Five-to-seven years ago the migration began the opposite way - digital stills on camcorders. The quality of the captures were horrible because the sensors weren't even HD size, which is still much smaller than basically every digital camera on the market today.
Previously I mentioned the rumor of Canon adding video to their photojournalist camera series, but it seems that video is the next big thing. Except for Sony's monster chip, the general race for more MP is slowing in favor for less noise and better features, such as this 'stop-motion' ability. I think the biggest thing holding it back is that the EU taxes video capture electronics much higher than still capture electronics. (their outdated specs for even 2007 is another discussion)
Is this really where we are going? What does everyone else think?
http://www.nikonusa.com/template.php?ca ... ctNr=25438
"Stop motion video: Creates a stop-motion animation from a sequence of images for added creative fun to your pictures. "
Since the D60 can take 100 jpegs at 3 fps, you could reasonably take about 30 secs of stop motion animation with this feature. Add the new live-view on the Sony A3xx series, and the rumor of OLED/LCD viewfinders to take the place of the old fashioned optical pentaprism/mirror viewfinders, it seems that the old fashioned way of taking pictures is going away. First, film. Now this. With the higher res live view screens it is much easier to tell if you have focus then looking into a viewfinder which (unless you've got a pro model) probably doesn't even show you 100% of the image!
The next generation of dSLR users will have grown up on P&S cameras that don't even have a viewfinder now. And those P&S took video. Five-to-seven years ago the migration began the opposite way - digital stills on camcorders. The quality of the captures were horrible because the sensors weren't even HD size, which is still much smaller than basically every digital camera on the market today.
Previously I mentioned the rumor of Canon adding video to their photojournalist camera series, but it seems that video is the next big thing. Except for Sony's monster chip, the general race for more MP is slowing in favor for less noise and better features, such as this 'stop-motion' ability. I think the biggest thing holding it back is that the EU taxes video capture electronics much higher than still capture electronics. (their outdated specs for even 2007 is another discussion)
Is this really where we are going? What does everyone else think?
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