5D MkII Frame Rates

[Andy Lewis]

24fps is important for the same reason that if you wanted to be taken seriously as a still photographer half a century ago, you had to shoot in black and white. Colour photography was for snapshots and advertising – art was in black and white. Except in this case – 24fps is for real cinema and 50/60i is for real life (and what could look cheaper and nastier than that?)

One consequence of the DSLR revolution will be that after a ton of cheap-looking 24fps films on youtube, people will stop associating the look (24fps and shallow DOF) with Big Cinema and we will have moved on.