Richard Hernandez' "Scenes from a Vacation"

Scenes from a Vacation from richard hernandez on Vimeo.

Nikon has recently released details of their new d90 dSLR, which among the usual goodness one expects from a dSLR these days includes one feature that has me very, very excited: High resolution video.

Of course, your pro shooters all use real video (or film) cameras, which have all kinds of control and interchangeable lenses and that sort of thing. But for the occasional video shooter the best we've been able to do is to use either a compact video camera or the movie mode of a little digicam like my G9. Neither of those have a heck of a lot of control.

Richard is using an adaptor to mount a lens onto his compact video camera, but the principle is the same; being able to use high-quality 35mm lenses to capture video -- say, to control depth of field, or to use a fisheye lens -- is quite alluring to me.

Not alluring enough to spend the money to switch platforms... but it's a good time to be a photographer, that's for sure.