Why do professional camera-people take single or rapid burst shots of the event they’re photographing, instead of using a high quality video camera and selecting the best frame later in edit?

Question

Why do professional camera-people take single or rapid burst shots of the event they’re photographing, instead of using a high quality video camera and selecting the best frame later in edit?

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Answer 1

8K video – pretty much the highest video standard out there – is the equivalent of 33.17 megapixels per frame.

A mid-range (~$2,000) mirrorless camera has a resolution of about 45 megapixels per shot – nearly a 30% increase in resolution.

You simply get higher resolution photos using burst photography than video.