This is an article not about licensing music. Music should always be paid for when the artist makes money from the work of others. This article is instead an impassioned plea for unrestricted use of music in non-profit personal videos, as long as the artist is credited. However there is a worrying trend of some recording artists who look negatively at their work being used in non-commercial films without prior permission - they are missing the spirit of what creativity is, and the opportunities afforded by the internet.

Above: Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in the early days of Apple.

The iPhone is beginning to eat into the profits of other companies in all kinds of markets - compact cameras, music players, and traditional mobile phones. EOSHD.com wonders whether the future of the camera is in fact the computer.

The purist photographers, forum fanatics and Leica lovers are not going to like this one! Cameras are dead. The future of photography is the mobile computer, not the camera.

What makes a troll tick? Trolls exist on article comment threads and internet forums around the world. They're often rude, green and argumentative and show no constraint in their attacking nature. EOSHD.com explains how trolls operate and why the phenomena has come about so readily in the world of DSLRs.

Right now, 35mm film stock producers Fujifilm are missing a huge opportunity to shape cinema's future

Band of pirates though they are, RED are a profitable company and right now their only competition comes from some unlikely sources - Arri's Alexa and Canon's consumer DSLRs.

Above: the Sony A55, which died today.

UPDATE #1: Sadly the same applies to the Sony A580 - the full sized DSLR which has also been announced. It also has interlaced footage, low bite rates and limited manual controls (aperture priority and that is all). Who is responsible at Sony for these blanket movie mode limitations?

UPDATE #2: Not everybody gets the DSLR video revolution and it is these customers Sony are catering for. Could their stance actually HELP sales of the Sony A55 overall and will video modes continued to be dumbed down without manual controls and 24p on future video DSLRs? It looks like it! http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/re...ssage=36121582

The Sony A55 has been announced and picked up one glowing review after another. My view of the video mode, is very different. You may remember I was very excited by this innovative transparent mirror DSLR when we heard the rumours (which turned out to be correct) a few months ago. But they have crippled the video capabilities.

Dear Sony… Canon and Nikon are market leaders in DSLRs. If you'd like to compete, I recommend recognising their strengths.