I was told that a prominent Youtuber for a competing website was annoyed that a camera couldn’t record more than 10 minutes of video footage without killing the battery totally. When the engineers and product managers replied with, “Well, this camera is designed for stills,” I rolled my eyes. But it begs a deeper question: why do we demand so much video performance from stills cameras and not the reverse? After all, video and cinema cameras are more expensive and more complex in different ways. I know; for most of us, this sounds crazy. But it prompted me to ask Blackmagic to try their Blackmagic 6k FF for still photography. What ensued was quite an eye-opening review session.
