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We are not seeing the work of a cinematographer in full control of their craft, Mario Andretti doing his best with front-wheel drive and an automatic transmission

I’ve owned Nikon SLRs for many years. Canon HDV is my camera of choice today but I still favor Nikon for stills, and like all Nikon gearheads I read kenrockwell.com.

Was Rockwell really serious when he wrote his much travelled “Why the camera doesn’t matter”?
- Yes, he was indeed, but he slid in several important caveats, that might just lead you to follow his example, rather than his advice, and stick with the fancicams.

It’s not about pixels - it’s about control.

Faced with the continued threat of rock stars using video camera lenses as ash-trays, the techs at Nikon and Canon have both hit on the same solution - have the DSLR handle the video for you. Today Canon announced the 21 MP 5D MKII following Nikon’s introduction last month of the D90, both capable of [...]

There are two considerations: where the mic is positioned and how well it was built.
Having the mic on the camera is invariably problematic. It is always too close to the camera and often too far from the source. To mitigate boomy audio you need to get in close to the subject.
If your sound is [...]

Size does matter. It’s not about pixels it’s about control.

Any camera you buy today will produce images that rival those from 10 year old cameras costing 10 times the price.
Unfortunately the same is not true of audio. A $50 five year old minidisc audio recorder will produce better audio than any video camera under $10K.
The problem is cheap pre-amps, and it can [...]