Christopher Wright's personal view: It may be about photography, or it may not. It depends upon what I find interesting at the time.

As you know I like the concept of convergence cameras so it irritates me that so many photographers moan about the fact that video capability has came to digital SLRS. I have no doubt that photographers moaned when wet collodion and glass plates were introduced but the innovative ones got over it, and produced some of the greatest photographs we've seen.

So get over the fact that your new camera has a video facility and start thinking about how it might be used creatively. Film makers already have and are developing new techniques in order to exploit the new capabilities that DSLRs offer ... as well as reveling in the low prices of the basic equipment.

For me much of the attraction is summed up by a US Panasonic advertisement which features a photograph of the AG HMC40 camcorder with the headline"the only two cameras you'll ever need." It is a camcorder that shoots full 1080 HD video and 10.6 MP stills. Okay, it attacks the convergence concept from the video side but the idea is right.

This edition of DPII looks at what is available in terms of video enabled DSLR cameras and the equipment to help convert them into serious pro level video cameras. You may not like idea,but it is here to stay. And remember what we are seeing now is just the beginning of a serious revolution in the way images are made.

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