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Originally Posted by SMHarman
I did, was quite a sight to see.
What I also noticed about it, was that the quality of the footage from what must have been a miniDV camera was apart from the shakiness, broadcast quality.
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Yep, but then even professional camera crews responding to news events in a real hurry, or in circumstances where a full-size digi-beta camera is impractical, have been using Sony miniDV equipment for some years now.
The article had a postscript observing the role the public now plays in newsgathering, thanks to the wide availability of digital still and video cameras. One thing that occurred to me was that the more this is so, the more likely it is that hordes of people are going to go legging it
towards the scene of a disaster like this, cameraphone in hand, thinking about flogging their pics to the Sun. And then, of course, it's only a matter of time before one of them gets killed. For example, if that fuel tank had gone up while they were stood in that field, they would most certainly have been killed, if not by being shredded by flying metal, then by the blast wave.