4K Video Advantages III – Turn 4K videos into high quality 4K photos
The city of Berlin in 4K with the new LUMIX LX100 by Benjamin Todd (Youtube).
The all new Panasonic Lumix GM5 – Main features (Youtube).
Panasonic preorders:
LX100 at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto. Europe at WexUK.
GM5 at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto. Europe at WexUK.
GM5 in red at Adorama.
35-100mm at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto.
Olympus preorders:
Silver E-M1 body at Amazon, Adorama, Bhphoto, GetOlympus. In Europe at Wex UK.
40-150mm f/2.8 PRO lens at Amazon, Adorama, Bhphoto, GetOlympus. In Europe at Wex UK, Technikdirekt and Amazon.
LH-76 lens hood at Adorama, Bhphoto, GetOlympus.
MC-14 1.4x teleconverter at Amazon, Adorama, Bhphoto, GetOlympus.
PRF-ZD62 Z protection filter at Adorama, Bhphoto, GetOlympus.
PRF-ZD72 Z protection filter at Adorama, Bhphoto, GetOlympus.
General links to all new Olympus stuff at Adorama.
ALL new stuff announced at Photokina at Amazon.
25 Responses
I thought GM5 dont have 4k?
No 4K in GM5, it’s the title which is confusing !
Where is everybody ?
MarcoPolo , JeffHarris & Narretz ???
Wake up Ulli Burer , time to comment .
lol what do you want us to comment on Yun? about 8mp stills extracting from videos? I guess it takes away some magic from action /sports photography. But you know, i was always one of the “flying cumshots” party.
Software doctored.
If I had to give one camera maker the highest award for innovation, it would be Panasonic. I’ve tried the 4K Photo on the GH4 and the level of detail on a single frame is astounding!
Panasonic: thanks.
4K photography will be huge…the next big thing. Panasonic is marketing it perfectly so far.
Once awareness is there, everyone will want to have 4K on their camera, if only for stills. It’s only a matter of time until Nikon and Canon enter the 4K photo market, but Panasonic has gottent there first. Yes, Canon does have a 4K camera priced above $10,000, but I don’t consider that a really viable competitor in the same market space due to its high price.
Now first movers don’t always win the market long term, and so Panasonic has to keep innovating. But kudos to Panasonic for coming out with such an affordable 4K camera.
Yeah 4K photos are a great solution to poor C-AF and burst photography in mirrorless cams (compared to the really expensive high end FF DSLRs). I’ll definitely be looking for that feature in my next camera as I believe it is sort of a game changer.
mhhh…but Q is when the kids are running like they usually do…and you shoot 4K video …how without good C-AF they will be in focus ?… or ist it expected that manual focus on mirorrless is faster/more accurate than C-AF on DSLR ?
or some kind of sports or cars or wildlife….when it goes towards you …without good C-AF you can have 7K video..but once the subject is not in focus ….its worthless
I have em10 ..using pana 25 …and when my 2 year boy on the strider goes against me …I have keep rate like 10%
just my 2 cents
i think its less spectaular then it seems to be indeed, but i am rather narrowminded, as i see the best advantage being able to use 4K for printing stuff in mags to get a bit better quality from video stills.Maybe we soon just shoot video and do the photography later behind the computer. Its a good thing though that 8mp comes back in fashion again
I’d just use MF while shooting 4k and just massage the focal plane back and forth in a small range while following them. You’ll likely get enough good frames in focus that way.
And yes… the pana 25 is an inferior lens in terms of focus speed and accuracy on an em10. I know because I have one as well, and it is no where near as good as my oly 12-40 for focusing.
4K has nothing to do with AF, C-AF or otherwise. If your focus is poor, it will be poor no matter what the quality of your video or stills is.
I have to admit I haven’t paid much attention to it this far, but I’m certainly going to upgrade the firmware and give it a go…
WOW.
This is definitely the future and a natural evolution in photography.
Grab a still frame from a highly compressed MPEG-4 footage!? No Thank you.
did you try it or is it your religion ?
Do you need to try jumping into a fire !? Do you know how a still frame from a highly compressed Mpeg-4 file look like?
People here usually don’t know these things…
I WAS ASKING YOU “did you try it” and you did not answer !
so your comment as your low level knowledge on the subject is totally useless, first try it and then you can speak
What is the camera between gh4 and lx100 at the end of the video? Lx1000 or g7?
it is supposed to be the FZ1000, but size don’t match (FZ1000 is basically same size as GH4)
Not really new. I saw them last week or was it the week before. They need to get the camera into hands of more blog-photographers urgently.
*I meant the LX100
Yawn, but the Panasonic X920 takes 20.4-megapixel still pictures during 1080P Video recording …
Why is 4K (8MP) from 4K innovative, because we can bump our Shot while we record a Video; people often do that.
I’d rather hunt for the still-Image (that I would derive from a Video) when I view the Video back from the Field than try to snap a Shot while I was recording Video — UNLESS, I was using the Panasonic X920 where to get a 20MP Shot that matches a Frame in the Video you _need_ to take the Shot while you record.
If you really wanted to create a “Movie Poster” (a still Image derived from a Frame in the Film) wouldn’t you want more than a 4K Photo. I thought everyone was crying when their Camera was less than 12MP and had decided that a large number of megapixels was only needed if you where going to make Poster-sized Prints (which IS the type of Shot you are trying to capture).
Not a step backwards, but a sidestep for sure.