Video on Flickr - no thank you.

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Flickr just annonced that people would be able to post video and share them. And I think it's a bad idea - because you just don't mix videos and photos - it's not the same demographics creating pictures and movies.
The thing that make me use flickr is that I can learn a lot from other and then make better pictures - it's also a show off , where I can tell the world : "hey look how good I amd at making pictures" (and then my ego goes down the drain because nobody else really likes my pictures.). And when I want to buy equipement - or when I decided that I would try to properly geottag my pictures, I just searched flickr and posted a few notes here and there. Same thing when I wanted to shoot RAW and decided to look for raw processing software. Up to now flickr as been a great resource for anything photography related. It's also a great resource when travelling - because you can ask local users what to see in a country, city a- that is worth taking a picture.
If I wanted to get into making videos, I would probably read Eugenia's blog first and then use siet that are dedicated to videos - because the community is already there - and people doing video are not the same as those taking pictures. I'm for sure not going to use flickr to view or post videos - I hope a majority of users will do the same and flickr will reconsider it's offering.

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