burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Have you seen actual 4K video? Hollywood crews have been shooting "movies" in 4K for quite a while, now!

Beercat Loc: Central Coast of California

Currently, for the average consumer, there is a big difference between exposures for stills and video. Unless one wants to spend a decent amount of money for a video camera that will shoot at least at 60p at 4K it doesn't make a difference .......... yet

The only think 4K at the consumer level does is allow crop room to compose after the take, then down size to 1080, still the standard in the vast majority of homes ........ but in the near future this all could change ....... stay tuned

myblog11021 Loc: new york

if you can get all the controls like the "still" while shooting video you may have a point.

marcomarks Loc: Ft. Myers, FL

Now that's just plain archaic and uninformed. I'd like to see you freeze a speeding bullet with no blur on a movie camera but you can on a 4K video. Or watch a Blu-Ray and see a few specks of dandruff on the overcoat of an actor in the recent King Kong if it was made with your film movie camera.

With your thinking:

Cars were better engineered in the 1920s.
My brother's old B&W 8mm reels are so much better than what I put on an SD card in broadcast quality 1080p today.
Refrigerators with the compressor on top were so much better.
We should never let go of those audiophile-quality 8-track tapes.

Bill Houghton Loc: New York area

I glad you have it all together. LOL Those 8 tracks were the cats meow.

photoman022 Loc: Manchester CT USA

no

Raleigh Loc: Reside in Olympia WA

No interest in video! I would rather the companies leave out the video "stuff" and increase the qualities of elements real photographers want/need.

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

I'm in Linda's camp. If I want to go into doing video, I'll purchase a video specific camera. I'll stick with my film and digital cameras for stills.

However, this could be a great product for the "spray and pray" photographers out there.
--Bob

romanticf16 Loc: Commerce Twp, MI

Proper video requires planning, scene blocking, sound, lighting and camera techniques above and beyond normal still photography. On the other hand, people go to Wallmart for "Portraits", so they'll create video too. It's all in the eye of the beholder.

speters Loc: Grangeville/Idaho

This was a very long time ago, when I was living in Berlin. I used a projector to view some footage from my apartment all the way across the street, projected the image on the house on the other side (it was an old building and the wall was just an ugly dark/dirty gray, but the picture was brilliant (in colors) and crisp and sharp! It also was at least 40 feet in length, probably more, try that with 4K (or 6K)!

tnste Loc: New Westminster, BC

Personally, I think there will always be a place for still photography.

Chet Loc: Louisville, KY

Not for me. I have no interest in video what so ever.

Brian in Whitby Loc: Whitby, Ontario, Canada

It would be great for sports and wildlife when getting that definitive moment is crucial. However, 30 Megapixel still photos would be awesome too.

mwsilvers Loc: Central New Jersey

I am primarily a stills photographer but I video a dozen or more concerts and shows a year using my hot shoe mounted RODE Stereo VideoMic Pro. Being able to get close to professional video results was just an added bonus to my dslr.

mccampbell60 Loc: Michigan

Have not read 10 pages of comments, what I read is having a camera that will allow one to set up a variation of shots that the camera will take with just one push of the shutter button. One now will get a series of shot, in motion, but each is a high definition of what one would have taken, one at a time manually changing the scene each time. The child's smile, the dog on the slide, sunset with clouds. One could set a series of shots that give you a strikingly clear but varied change in contrast, different focuses on the same action shot, with changing aspects. Thinking creatively look how many variation could be built into a single press of a shutter during a moving subject and each being the kind of shot you might have wanted if you would sit at your photo editor machine, only now it is as though you planned each shot-which is exactly what you had done.

Look at the cameras now that allows one to take a picture which now allows the VIEWER to change the point of focus after the pictures has been taken.

I certainly can see how this added clarity to each frame adds to ones creativity, adding one more complication that the younger minds in "still" photography can apply. It is not video photography replacing still, but adding a dimension to the already very large and sometimes overwhelming choices we have now in bridge and DSLR cameras.

How about adding voice commands to the camera so that as one is holding the camera on target, you command more contrast, more ISO, Less... and the camera makes the changes at that instance and you do not lose contact with your imagination and visualization.

There is so much more that the camera can do and the camera developers have barely started to break away from the pinhole camera of our ancestors or maybe even some of our present day creative photographers. How about the camera that shoots around corners?