Hi. Since one year, most of my japanese bondage photos*** come from "video-frames" with high shutter-speed, and mostly in very low light situations (using my D5200 with f1.4 lenses), therefore i'm VERY enthusiastic about the SONY A7S because of the combination of two amazing technologies:
- its extreme low-light sensibility
- And its 4K recording.
But... Apparently an external 4K recorder cost... 2000 € !!?
( http://wolfcrow.com/blog/the-sony-a7s-4k-guide-part-five-external-recording-and-data-wrangling/ )
I see on the internet some reasonably cheap things called "bluray 4k recorders", sure, it's not portable, but would it work to record 4k video from the A7S with theses? ( http://www.auspreiser.de/preise/blu-ray-recorder-4k-19974507.html )
Any other options ? or options coming soon ??
Oh please please...
I want this camera. And really want to use 4K.
*** Detailed note about why 4K is the future for spontaneous photo shootings ***
As you can see on my blog, my pictures are really far from being sharp. Video frames at 3200 iso on my D5200 don't look that good, still after some lightroom corrections and adding a bit grain, it is usable for a blog... But for sure I would like make shaper pictures!
I do have two or three pictures on that blog that come from true 24mp photos, and i make a lot of pictures at each shooting, as well as the videos, but overall, the true ‘photo' i shoot are not as great as the videoframes i can extract from the videos, this for several reasons:
- I can film all the time, the whole rope session for one hour, so i have much more material to take the best frame out of it.
- It’s silent. And this is a big thing. When the rope session is not focused on making pictures, but on the activity itself. We can forget the camera and this can be very important. It changes everything.
- I have 24 images per seconds to choose from.
(Even with a super-pro camera that can shoot at 10fps, i wouldn’t have that much choice of frames when the subject is moving fast… sometimes it’s really ‘that’ videoframe that is nice, not the one before or after. Plus in case of shooting 10fps for half an hour it would probably be a mess to watch one by one, instead of simply watching the video, and to deal with all that dozens of thousands of photos in Lighroom.)
That is to say, In my way of photoshooting spontaneous moments, '4K video’ is the future. Together with 'extreme low light sensibility’.
(I was also dreaming about 'on-sensor-phase-detection for continuous focus', that the A7S doesn’t have, but even the 70D, that have this technology, does not appear to make it work properly in low light, so maybe we’ll have to wait a bit more for that…)
Cheers,
Thank by advance for your help or comments,
Alex Lobos
*** softer version: http://www.alexfun.org
*** version with a bit more photos: http://www.alexandreandco.tumblr.com
- its extreme low-light sensibility
- And its 4K recording.
But... Apparently an external 4K recorder cost... 2000 € !!?
( http://wolfcrow.com/blog/the-sony-a7s-4k-guide-part-five-external-recording-and-data-wrangling/ )
I see on the internet some reasonably cheap things called "bluray 4k recorders", sure, it's not portable, but would it work to record 4k video from the A7S with theses? ( http://www.auspreiser.de/preise/blu-ray-recorder-4k-19974507.html )
Any other options ? or options coming soon ??
Oh please please...
I want this camera. And really want to use 4K.
*** Detailed note about why 4K is the future for spontaneous photo shootings ***
As you can see on my blog, my pictures are really far from being sharp. Video frames at 3200 iso on my D5200 don't look that good, still after some lightroom corrections and adding a bit grain, it is usable for a blog... But for sure I would like make shaper pictures!
I do have two or three pictures on that blog that come from true 24mp photos, and i make a lot of pictures at each shooting, as well as the videos, but overall, the true ‘photo' i shoot are not as great as the videoframes i can extract from the videos, this for several reasons:
- I can film all the time, the whole rope session for one hour, so i have much more material to take the best frame out of it.
- It’s silent. And this is a big thing. When the rope session is not focused on making pictures, but on the activity itself. We can forget the camera and this can be very important. It changes everything.
- I have 24 images per seconds to choose from.
(Even with a super-pro camera that can shoot at 10fps, i wouldn’t have that much choice of frames when the subject is moving fast… sometimes it’s really ‘that’ videoframe that is nice, not the one before or after. Plus in case of shooting 10fps for half an hour it would probably be a mess to watch one by one, instead of simply watching the video, and to deal with all that dozens of thousands of photos in Lighroom.)
That is to say, In my way of photoshooting spontaneous moments, '4K video’ is the future. Together with 'extreme low light sensibility’.
(I was also dreaming about 'on-sensor-phase-detection for continuous focus', that the A7S doesn’t have, but even the 70D, that have this technology, does not appear to make it work properly in low light, so maybe we’ll have to wait a bit more for that…)
Cheers,
Thank by advance for your help or comments,
Alex Lobos
*** softer version: http://www.alexfun.org
*** version with a bit more photos: http://www.alexandreandco.tumblr.com
