Coexistence

Canon's 5D mark II DSLR has been out on the market for quite some time.  Long enough for several high end videos to get shot through its HD video capability.  Some are almost feature length, most I suppose are merely add-ons to already exhaustive shoot days.  With this simple affordable camera, high end video has come to the masses, or at lease to the myriad of photographers who have one.  A once well defined boundary has suddenly blurred.  Still photography has always existed separate from that other world.  The world of Burbank, Hollywood, DP's and unionized card carrying member-only workforces.  That line seems to be vanishing fast.  I wonder how Hollywood will react when most still shooters can offer motion picture add-ons to the products they are already photographing still.  Turn the well established system on its head?  I think not.  Even though the likes of National Geographic TV is now excepting some of its footage from this camera, it'll always be a completely different medium from still photography.  They have coexisted for more than a century.  Both have their creative and commercial use and the simple fact that technology is racing to bring both mediums into the hands of a single person doesn't change that fact.  Regardless of what piece of equipment either form is shot from, broken into their most basic principles, one is still and one moves, and that will never change.