What Camera for a World Changing Event?

[RaysJ]

In a prior thread GeoffRG said:

There is, and always was, one stand out camera. It's better than any other camera, it's the one you have in your hand because it's the one you will use when the world changing event happens in front of you.

If an unexpected World Changing Event happens, I expect it to be photographed or filmed with a cellphone.

That's pretty much what I see anytime I watch the news. Anything from the war in Ukraine to Gaza to Texas floods most of the visuals come from phones.

Gato

Yup, or from security cameras, doorbell cameras. and dashcams. There are countless cameras posted in all directions all the time.

I was talking a newsreporter a few years covering an event and he said all newsreporters on his paper, only use phones apart from ones covering sport.

 

[saltydogstudios]

In a prior thread GeoffRG said:

There is, and always was, one stand out camera. It's better than any other camera, it's the one you have in your hand because it's the one you will use when the world changing event happens in front of you.

If an unexpected World Changing Event happens, I expect it to be photographed or filmed with a cellphone.

That's pretty much what I see anytime I watch the news. Anything from the war in Ukraine to Gaza to Texas floods most of the visuals come from phones.

Gato

Yup, or from security cameras, doorbell cameras. and dashcams. There are countless cameras posted in all directions all the time.

I was talking a newsreporter a few years covering an event and he said all newsreporters on his paper, only use phones apart from ones covering sport.

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The ubiquitous phone. In this case I think a video is worth more than a photo.

 

[Bob A L]

The last World Changing event I was part of was COVID.

Good point. But that was temporary, and did not change the world: since then, everyone returned to Business As Usual.

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Photography is so easy, that's what makes it highly difficult - Robert Delpire

Not where I have any contact. It caused many problems that are still huge problems today and will likely be so for years. Covid (or the handling of it) left many huge scars on the world and continues to haunt us.

 

[Pilsenaaa]

For that I would dust off my film camera and then I would head down to Henry's Camera to buy few rolls of Kodakchrome... yes I know ,very unfortunately that one classic went the way of Dodo too, like so many other great inventions of 20th century.

 

[AstigmaticOwl]

For that I would dust off my film camera and then I would head down to Henry's Camera to buy few rolls of Kodakchrome... yes I know ,very unfortunately that one classic went the way of Dodo too, like so many other great inventions of 20th century.

And with my luck, while I was changing film, the peak moment would pass.

:-(

 

[Gato Amarillo]

For that I would dust off my film camera and then I would head down to Henry's Camera to buy few rolls of Kodakchrome... yes I know ,very unfortunately that one classic went the way of Dodo too, like so many other great inventions of 20th century.

And with my luck, while I was changing film, the peak moment would pass.

:-(

LOL -- but been there, done that.

I was a newspaper photographer back in the film days. More than once I hit the end of the roll just as the action was peaking.

The custom was to never finish the roll. About 25 or 30 frames (on a roll of 36) we'd begin looking for a break in the action so we could reload.

gato

 

[RaysJ]

For that I would dust off my film camera and then I would head down to Henry's Camera to buy few rolls of Kodakchrome... yes I know ,very unfortunately that one classic went the way of Dodo too, like so many other great inventions of 20th century.

Some companies don't change and go out of business.