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“Whatever you do, don’t send them to Columbia U, where they’ll make the kid do nothing but film cameras. Every year I turn away potential interns and employees from places like that because I need someone good with digital cameras and computers.”

That is interesting. I took a photojournalism class last semester and even digital cameras are becoming a thing of the past. Now bigger papers are sending photographers out with video cameras and then they take a still from the footage. Every speaker we had though said they had been purely digital for at least 5 years.

“Now bigger papers are sending photographers out with video cameras and
then they take a still from the footage.”

Thanks for that info. It kinda’ tells me I’ve not been crazy in waiting to
either buy a really good digital camera...or go for one of the videocorders,
now that you see ones that offer even 5.1 megapixel stills.
I’ve been dithering about that for a couple of months.

“Every speaker we had though said they had been purely digital for
at least 5 years.”
Recently Newt Gingrich said he was having his photo taken at some event
(in D.C.?)
I can’t remember exactly what Newt said, but I think that after a bunch
of snapshots by one of the press cameramen, he said “Hey, you keep
going, you’re gonna’ run out of film!”
The photographer said “Mr. Gingrich, about the last time I used a film
camera was when you were still Speaker of The House!”
(VOA thinks that means the photographer was out of film and
into digital by 1998)

Now bigger papers are sending photographers out with video cameras and then they take a still from the footage

Hmmmm... this is just an extension of the professional photographer taking hundreds of shots to get the two or three prize winners... now they can do thousands.