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What's the difference between photography, video recording and photography in definition?

In the pre-digital era, film photography and cinematography were both photography, and the corresponding operators were photographers and cinematographers, while TV stations used cameras and the corresponding operators were cameramen. Photographic photography, that is, photography, is generally not confused. Confusion mainly occurs in film photography and TV camera shooting. Many people have formed a wrong understanding that shooting still pictures is called photography and shooting moving images (movies and television) is called camera shooting, which is a misunderstanding. Although photography and camera shooting are two different jobs and procedures, which are used in different fields, objectively speaking, the technical content and artistic status of film photography are higher than that of TV photography, so this confusion is mostly a bit unpleasant for film photography. By the way, there is a little confusion that often happens. That's the picture in film photography, and the unit quantifier is usually a case, while the picture in TV camera is a frame. Many people are used to using frameworks uniformly, which doesn't matter, but it's good to know the difference. These subtle differences in Chinese are not so complicated in English. For example, camera can refer to a camera, a movie camera, a television camera or even a video camera. Only add specific prefixes when necessary, such as still camera, film camera, TV camera, video camera, etc. Frames are used in English without distinction. Perhaps it was the China doyen who finalized the terminology that was more considerate. But now is the digital age, the difference between photochemistry and electrical signals will gradually disappear, and so will the difference between photography and video recording. However, it is still a habit to call those who make movies photography and those who make TV videos.

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