On film shooting high fps was limited dramatically by how much film you had, most people being limited to 36 exposure meant that you weren’t just going to make a movie. When your camera has a 16gb card, you can shoot bursts for hours.

I am not ‘anti-progress’ nor am I anti-technology. I just hate spec myopia because often times it prevents new innovation. Just look at processors. The efficiency level of processors didn’t change much from the Pentium II through the Pentium 4 – a span of almost a decade – but once a functional limit was hit they have created many cool new technologies like multi-core and other designs that improve the performance much more without paying any heat/power penalty. We have seen this in point and shoots… it’s all about the megapixels baby! Let’s hope that they keep the FPS somewhere around 10 – 12/14 wouldn’t be too bad – and work on some other new ground breaking feature that could really make the upgrade from 10fps compelling.