Fair question. I guess the first reason is because the camera fits into my work as a still photographer. Otherwise I probably won’t have made any sort of investment in a video rig to do this sort of project. This was my first attempt at any sort of video work.

Also, for $900 you aren’t going to get any video camera that looks as film like. It’s 24 fps and I like that speed a lot. The other reason is I already had a decent collection of lenses that I could use. If you don’t need to trick the camera, and your somewhere with lots of light, all the regular lenses most photographers have will work just fine.

Finally, I wanted the challenge of making something as substantial as this with a dSLR. I didn’t know anyone else doing something like this, so I thought I’d give it a go.

Thanks for the question,
Aaron

Awesome! Go for it!

AG

If this project didn’t do it for you, don’t give up video dSLR before you check out Vincent Laforet’s work. http://www.vincentlaforet.com/index_reverie.html

The post was incredibly informative and well said. It give us all something to shoot for. Literally and figuratively.

SMc