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Started May 8, 2015 | Discussions thread
Nevada Landscapes
Nevada Landscapes Regular Member • Posts: 227
Re: 4K is a legitimate photography technique
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Greynerd wrote:

4K us really bad news for people interested in photography or Samsung kit specifically. This has nothing to do with either.

All this OTT shouting should really be on the Digital Video Talk forum.

Here is where you are wrong Greynerd, while you associate 4K with video, it is also a legitimate photography technique. Pulling decent quality photos from 4K is an advance. Instead of taking many, many pictures trying to get just the right moment in sports, you simply shoot a 4K video and then copy the frame that contain the right moment. For example, my daughter enjoys Taekwondo sparring, and this is very difficult to capture the right moments due to the speed of the fighters and the poorly lit building in which the matches typically occur. I could shoot my NX1 at 15 fps until the buffer fills and do this over and over hoping that I captured the right moment. Or I just shoot 4K and then look for the perfect frame. So this is why I say that you are wrong that that 4K is relevant to photography. BTW, Panasonic makes this the easiest to do with their "4K Photo" function that allows you to "shoot" video in a higher shutter speed such as 1/500 to stop the action. You could say that this technique requires no skill, but it brings capturing this type of event to the masses and my grandfather would say that using a camera that calculates the exposure for you and auto-focuses requires no skill either!

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