New Telegraph picture chief's video vision

The newly appointed Telegraph pictures supremo, Stuart Nicol, predicts that video will replace still photography. "Digital stills photography will, when we look back on it, form a very small period of time in the history of photojournalism", he says. "Telegraph photographers will undoubtedly be shooting solely on video in the future, and certainly within a year we hope to be well advanced down that route." Nicol, who becomes Telegraph executive editor (pictures) from October 16, has been the Press Association's group picture editor since January and says all of PA's 42 staff photographers are equipped with Canon S3 cameras for shooting internet-quality video in addition to their existing stills cameras. They embraced the new technology, says Nicol, after just two days' training. (Via EPUK.org)