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The digi­tal camera offers the photog­ra­pher a new dimen­sion in image-making–we might call it the exten­si­ble moment. Photographs made using film tech­nol­ogy can be said (as John Berger does) to cut across time. The minute-​long photographs that result from hold­ing a digi­tal camera in one posi­tion in movie mode embrace or include time as motion while retain­ing the lure […]

If you hold a digi­tal camera steady for a minute or so (in Movie mode), you get a still photo­graph with move­ment in it. Photog­ra­phers have been “simu­lat­ing” move­ment for a hundred years by regis­ter­ing blurs of more or less distinct­ness. Now they can get the detail and the move­ment at the same time, or during the same time–and time itself becomes a dimen­sion of the photograph.