Dear Erwin
I think that the new technologies give us a chance to do more than simply cut the cost of production. I think we have an opportunity now to create a new grammar for video journalism. Just as the invention of small hand-held Leicas created a revolution in photo journalism some 70 years ago, leading to Magnum and photo journalism as an art in its own right, so now I think that these small digital video cameras can do for us what Leicas did for photographers in the 1930s- that is, lead to a grammar of video that is more personal, more intimate and far more powerful. But it means a basic change in how we think about and use the gear.