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Tripods?

April 7, 2007 · 11 Comments

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Henri Cartier Bresson photographs Mao… (note… no tripod…. )

I have been involved in a very interesting discussion on a Yahoo newsgroup for newspaper photographers moving into online video. You can find it at NewspaperVideo@yahoogroups.com but you should probably be working at a newspaper in video to participate.

Over the past three days there has been a heated discussion about whether or not to use tripods when shooting video. (I am personally opposed). There is a lot of support for tripods because, besides holding the shot still, it is what the ‘pros’ use, and ‘we should not throw out the past’.

I must respectfully disagree, at least with respect to cramming television into the web. (more…)

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