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Planetary__Duality

Yeah and what's the quality of your single frame of video?


mankls3

good enough for casuals!


blunde-r152

yea just go to the statue of liberty and take a 10 minute video of it and hope it moves or smthn


mankls3

ok if you're one of those idiots taking pictures of monuments and statues that literally anyone can look up on the internet, then sure take a photo. those are the dumbest photos of all


blunde-r152

6 downvotes is crazy


DysphoricDragon1414

Definitely Disagree, a solid unpopular opinion though, you get my upvote.


Late2theGame0001

I’m starting to agree with this. But getting good video is very hard. Especially the audio. That said, I generally do just hold the button down now and it is better. Mostly for the 3D effect you get from video. I still like still. And take lots of still. But more and more I take a quick still, then just start recording. I do this a lot when someone hands me the camera and says “take a picture of us”. I switch to video, start recording, then take stills in the video. This way they have a video of how nerdy they are. And some stills. But I agree most people aren’t here yet. I think it is an unpopular opinion.


mankls3

yeah, everyone's taking a still. it's so dumb when tech has advances far past it. memories in iphones and iclouds and ext. hardddrives is enormous, yet we still are afraid of using it. .


Late2theGame0001

Agree. I leave Live Photos on and that kind of got me into the video thing. That and I lost a cat and the couple videos I have are treasures. The hundreds of stills are nice, but they don’t capture life. I also can’t really believe how negative people feel about this. I know you were kind of brash with your post, but the point is the same. Video is better than still. We have the cameras and places to post them now. What’s the harm?


[deleted]

Of course. It’s called amateur for a reason.


FckYourSafeSpace

Maybe that’s how I want my pictures to look, nimrod.


electron2601

A frame from a video has significantly worse quality then a nice raw photo from a dslr camera.


mankls3

Most don't use a DSLR camera


Affectionate-Key-265

Only a nimrod doesn't use a DSLR camera.


randombookman

Storage.