jordanstarr
J.R.Starr
It could well be that still photography, as a popular medium, has entered its last days.
...I somehow doubt this very much. The ability to take a still image from a motion picture existed from the very beginning of the process decades ago. It might be that taking a still from video and passing it as "still photography" has been getting more popular as technology gets better and the quality improves, but I highly doubt it will kill still photography. I bet if you took a poll here with digital photographers who have DSLRs that are capable of this process and ask: "would you scrap still photography all together and take "frames" from their video instead?", I bet less than 1% actually would do this. This is why so many videographers also do still photography with a completely different camera for that kind of work rather than simply taking a frame from their video. It's a very different process and way of thinking about things.