Introducing 4K Video Advantages – A Revolution in Videography – II
Best lenses for the Olympus OM-D EM-10: Standard and Short telephoto primes and zooms (DxOmark).
Panasonic GX7 article at DC.watch.
Panasonic Leica DG Summilux 15mm f/1.7 ASPH lens tested at Photoreview.
Olympus 25mm test at Nikkei.
Limited edition E-M10 at Akihabara.
Marc: “My latest work shot with an Olympus E-M5 and the lovely Olympus 25mm 1.8 lens at marcprovins.blogspot.co.uk“
Robert: “100 Euro off on the GM1 in France at Redcoon.fr. Info at Photo-Panasonic.“
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More and more I am starting to think that panasonic is paying a lot of money to let so called professionals promote their GH4. This so called advantage of extracting stills from the video, what I hear also many people mention on this forum, is nonsense in my opion. You can already shoot 12 frames per second stills with the GH4 which is more than enough, why would you make video in lower resolution if you want stills.
I own the GH1 and G6 and I am not gonna buy the much too expensive hyped GH4.
Exactly. And the more hype they put in, the more it stinks. Do they want to sell me crap? Yes. Am I going to buy it? You are kidding.
It’s not “crap”. You simply don’t need it. 😉
Exactly. As the Grinch put it “one man’s toxic sludge is another man’s potpourri” 🙂
Then don’t buy a GH4. I’m sorry if Panasonic put a gun to your head and all. They should really never do that, honestly.
GH4 4K video footage is still highly compressed, the stills extracted carry all kinds of artifacts of the compression. Unless the footage is raw, IMHO stills extracted from a video footage are still not good enough in most professional applications.
The ability to extract stills from video is very huge, it will change the market forever. Some photographers will argues but in the end the final product is the only thing that matters. For now 8.3 Mpix images suffice for a broad spectrum of applications.
The film is nicely done, thank you admin for posting it.
> it will change the market forever.
I read e-books. And I also edit e-books. Why I bring it up? Because that activity and picking a shot out of several thousand video frames have something in common: they are incredibly tiring and prohibitively time consuming.
4K might change the market. But I personally do not see it yet.
Applications may come in time with the feature to select the desired frame on the go, without any pause and the program to just pick the clearest from a group of similar images.
As a wedding photographer I feel it is easier to extract 1000 images form 4K, than to select 1000 from 5000 images from an event.
Journalists may fell the same way.
The ability to have both video and stills is huge.
4K for still to me has very limited appeal. Probably only if they make shutter angle adjustable in PP: the motion blur is needed for video, but is a problem for still.
Basically, camera would need to shoot as if with shutter 360 all the time, but save every frame say into 2-4 separate frames. In PP, if motion blur is needed, one can combine the frames. But if sharp shot is needed, one can take only a single shot. (But that’s going to be hell a lot of data……)
Not everyone wants or needs 180 degree shutter speed, so for my kind of work, the 4K images look perfect.