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Swiss station ditches cameras, will only use iPhones

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A local TV station has decided to shoot their news using iPhone.

Is it a sign of the future, or the sign of a really cheap TV station?

The local TV news station that has gone “100% iPhone” is not based in the U.S., but in Switzerland.

Over the summer, Léman Bleu outfitted each of its reporters with an iPhone 6 kit to shoot their stories and to use for live shots.

News director Laurent Keller says Léman Bleu actually isn’t the first station to convert to iPhones; a Scandinavian outlet apparently has done it too. And he’s candid about the reasons why. “It’s a search for lightness and responsiveness, but also a way to reduce the costs of producing a newscast,” Keller told the Swiss newspaper Le Temps.

What about quality? Keller says iPhone video is different but not necessarily inferior to what a standard TV camera produces. “It’s up to us to reinvent the grammar of the image, to learn to shoot differently,” he said. The technology allows the station to go live at any time from anywhere, either on the air or on social media. That’s important to a small regional channel that broadcasts only a few hours a day.
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http://www.ftvlive.com/todays-news/2015/9/21/station-ditches-cameras-will-only-use-iphones
 
This redefines "stupid". Proper video cameras don't cost that much these days, are super small and produce superiour-quality output to anything any PDA could possibly do, Apple-badged Foxconn or otherwise. That, and one can probably outfit an entire station, plus blank tapes/compact flash cartridges, for maybe what two new Apple Foxconn PDAs sell for.

All it takes is one stupid corporate drone idiot in California making some unnanounced modification to their "service" or a broadcast firmware update for the whole effort to go "pop". This is why you don't ditch your real video cameras if you know better; real cameras don't go down!
 
Well to be fair... Leman Blue is not really the first option to tune to for most viewers. Most would opt for RTS or the French networks.
 
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