Only video footage will do for shoot-it-and-share-it generation
Helmet-camera recording will be key for the Schumacher inquiry, and they are becoming the norm for extreme sports enthusiasts
For adventure athletes, it's the new essential: a video of their exploits.
On social media, slogans such as "It ain't bragging" read like a mission statement proclaimed by high-octane sports seekers who strap tiny cameras on to their helmets, bikes and bodies to document their weekend and vacation adventures.
Forget holiday snaps. Now only video action will do for a shoot-it-and-share-it generation of skiers and skydivers, snowboarders and bike riders.
To create images that are not boring, you could concentrate on the purpose to take films and not the purpose to be safe on your skis
Michael Schumacher was wearing a camera on his ski helmet when he sustained severe brain injuries falling headfirst onto a rock on December 29 on a French Alps slope during a family vacation.
He remains in a critical but stable condition while doctors at a hospital in Grenoble keep him in a medically induced coma to ease stress on his brain.
On Wednesday, the prosecutor and investigators examining what caused the retired Formula One great's crash in Meribel told of what they had learned so far from two minutes of images, which were not made public.
"He was skiing between three and six metres away from the regular ski trail," Albertville prosecutor Patrick Quincy told a news conference at the Palace of Justice in the 1992 Winter Olympics host city.