Re: Lighting for the DSLR camera and the out of focus background on 20/20 last week

Jason,

What you say actually reinforces my statement that experienced and long serving technicians will be displaced by disposable cameras like the DSLR's you mention.

Camera people at TV news operations have spent years honing their skills in photography, sound, editing and storytelling, only to be replaced by newbies with cheap cameras for "smart business" reasons.

This is the same phenomenon that is occurring in many industries, where bean counters and anti-union management seek downsizing and cutbacks that seem like "smart business" but in the long term mostly destroy the business and reform it as something else.

Getting back to the point of this discussion, it's easy to make pictures with fuzzy background with oversized imagers like those found in DSLR's (especially full sized like 5d's) but it takes skill to use them with a purpose in propelling the story telling.

JMHO,

JS