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Wednesday, July 5, 2006
 

Does the future of photojournalism involve stopping HD video in its tracks to grab still images?  "A small but passionate group of photographers are convinced it is," according to a report in Photo District News.

The point is that while high-definition camcorders don't compete for detail with the latest digital SLRs, they do produce stills good enough to run across several newspaper columns, or so the article says. And if a "newspaper" photojournalist is shooting video, it's that much easier to put a clip -- not just a snap -- on the paper's website. Not a huge innovation... but the article will make interesting summer reading along with a bunch of items I've downloaded or grabbed with my just-installed Firefox scrapbook plug-in...
(Heh. That Post ...Millions of Readers story has had a small error corrected,  which could have been done with less subtlety by extending the headline to read  ...and 13 Years Later Goofs on Reference to Its Own Start-Up Date. I hope it was a Post editor who caught the typo, even if it made its way into print first.  Good job, anyway. Maybe Web journalism should adopt the motto "It's never too late to set things straight.")

For more on that theme, two more items:


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