Quote Originally Posted by Remy757Photog View Post
Yes, point and shoot cameras are capable of capturing decent photos for web consumption (i.e. Internet profiles, photos albums). Point and shoot and cheap dual purpose cameras are a FAIL for professional purposes. You want to run around taking pics and vids of friends and family out and about having a good time, cool beans. If you want to deliver a product for a company to buy from you, sorry but no. I think I'm kind of biased on this, as I feel it's a bit disrespectful to even think of using some sub-par content producing device. Look at it this way. You sign up for a casting call, you get a gig, show up on set for what's supposed to be next big Hollywood film. All the cameramen are filming with little pink camcorders they can tuck away in their backpocket and it tells you the sports score all at once. Instead of using proper lighting they have some cheap Home Depot setup with regular light bulbs creating god awful shadows and harsh lighting, which they pass as being their lighting equipment. Are you going to feel comfortable about the production level of content you are about to be in? I'd rather know they are using the best tech available to deliver on a great performance.

I mean no offense, but are you a photographer? I think I may be losing you, perhaps you don't know how involved a photoshoot is. Especially a porn photoshoot, where it's your money that you are paying model and location out of pocket for, hoping (it's never guaranteed) the company will buy the content from you so you can make your money back and (maybe) have a little profit. Of course, it could be me, as I've stated, I've had no desire to use a consumer grade product and have done no research into their progress as far as true quality that meets some standards. So wow me, convince me there is some pocket camera out there that is worth using in a professional aspect. Provide some links to a specific camera and I will look at the specs and try and find pics used by said device. There is more to taking photos and vids than having x-amount of megapixels, or 1080p resolution. I'm not saying there isn't some uber device that'll truely deliver in any way possible out there, I just don't know about it. However; I still wont use a point and shoot camera as I KNOW that isn't what makes models uncomfortable in the first place, so it's not really resolving any issue at all. I personally feel, that out of all the photogs, I need to step it up the most in serving quality content, so in my mind, I can't fathom using anyting less than what I already have at my disposal.

That's too funny "rocking Home Depot lights".

Truly enjoyed reading your responses. And I do understand your sentiments
about the Canon 5D.

Though I do get the sense that there is a market demand for a good DSLR,
and HD video camera combo at a decent price point. Folks really would like
to have the best of both worlds, without breaking the bank.

The pro will stick with dedicated devices, they won't want a "Swiss Army
knife". And the average user, Mom and Pop, shooting baby photos of little
Tyrese and Shaniqua will be more than happy with the point and shoots.

But the prosumer is going to demand something better, and I feel that
manufacturers will feed this need at some point.