Cameras and cinematography

Question

Following on from my initial post and the subsequent discussion on cleaning up the advertising tag, would it be possible for us to discuss camera and cinematography?

camera

Questions about the use of cameras and camera-related film techniques.

cinematography

Cinematography is the art or science of motion picture photography.

Both of these tags are used for the same sort of question, if you look through what we've currently got tagged on each. This should be doable with nothing more than merging one tag into the other. I'd prefer to keep cinematography and merge camera into it but I don't really mind either way.

What do you think?

Answer 1

Merging those two is very good idea, they've always been a thorn in my eye. They seem to be synonyms for all intents and purposes.

One could argue that cinematography is more about the action of filming and operating cameras, while camera is more specifically about the actual technological things. But I agree with iandotkelly's comment that "we're not a technical 'camera' site". And when looking at the existing questions, nearly all of the camera questions also would fall into the action of cinematography and the very few more technical things are probably also well-covered by the broader topic of cinematography.

I would thus agree that we merge them, and specifically merge camera into cinematography (and probably make it a synonym).