At this point in time, HD video frame grab doesn't compete with MFDB for lifestyle or fine art. The rest of this post relates more to photojournalism and some recent shifts..read on if you please:
For those of us that do photojournalism as the other part of our life, this article was enlightening/disturbing/interesting:
The Dallas Morning News is now equipping their still photographers with Sony Z1U video cameras, and they have created an algorithm that allows those frame grabs to be boosted to 16 megapixels, which only two years ago was the maximum you could get out of a professional 35mm camera. The Dallas Morning News is regularly running 4- and 5-column front-page pictures from these video grabs. Then, they put the streaming video on their Web site.
From:
http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0704/the...hotography.html[digitaljournalist.org focuses on photo video media, journalism, etc.]
2 years ago most newspapers got rid of their wet darkrooms and bought more computers and photoshop! The SJMN just dumped the last of the film cameras from their inventory early last year. The staff photographers have been using digital for 5+ years.
In the SF area we have gone down from 4-5 pro labs for onsite/2hr E-6 (120 & 4x5) to only one. One of the 5 has moved south to Santa Cruz. 2 years ago, I used to be able to "pick my lab" for my 120 and 4x5, now there is only one.
The next five years will be quite interesting...digital killed the film star...video killed the still photographer [Sorry, couldn't help the 80s reference ]
Rich
NGOphotographer