A7IV can't shoot 30fps h.265? is this a joke?

Niber said:

SafariBob said:

Niber said:

I think it depends a bit how you shoot, I think the old days of shooting is to take out your camera when you have a very noteworthy event to shoot, but the new style of shooting is to take way more/longer videos than you would ever dream of taking in the analogue days.

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disagree.

Niber said:

For example, let's say your kid plays basketball 3 times a week and for fun I want to record the entire games from a tripod, that might be an hour, that would be 500 hours of footage over the course of 3 years. at 200mbs(25MBs) that would be 45 TB of harddrive space for just 1 single hobby.

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This is a highly unrealistic scenario. For one recording a match from a single tripod makes no sense, second there is no way anyone is gonna watch 3 kid games of basketball, and then those 3 matches all over again at a later date, x 52 weeks, or 500 hours, which btw is nearly a month of continuous watching. I am a film enthusiast and have watched 1000 films in 15 years, on that metric you would spend 4 years watching those 500 hours

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In this modern style of shooting you don't necessarily sit there any watch it all one day. I record every entire kayak trip I go on (2 angles), every motorcycle ride (2 angles), bring my drone everytime I go to certain beaches, record every basketball game (we play halfcourt so a tripod is fine), record some entire hikes.

..I can do this because all of my 3 action cams and my drone can record h265, so it's really efficient yet still retains the quality if I later decide to make something out of portions. It's only my Sony camera that's collecting dust, partially because my A7C doesn't do h.265, and partially because of all the other Sony baggage that comes with it.

but am I'm planning on doing a kayaking-marathon where I sit down to watch 40 hours of kayaking in realtime? no, but I still want to keep the video, either for memories or for later on deciding that maybe I want to make some sort of compilation video for Youtube

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Niber said:

Jb502 said:

Who cares. Shoot in H.264 or 24p. Nobody will know the difference either way. Hell shoot 1080 30. Nobody will care.

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It really does a world of difference, the reason many people think that 4k isn't that much different from 1080p is because they haven't tried an OLED monitor yet, on OLED's the difference is insane. I was considering mixing my 4k footage with 1080p so that I can do the occational 120fps slowmo, and yes on a regular monitor you could probably get away with that, but on the OLED the difference is just too massive.

24p is unusable, it works for hollywood where panning is rare, but if you bring your camera out on a walk on a gimbal (where you're pretty much constantly panning around), if you set it to 180 degree shutter speed the result is just way too motion-blurred. You can set it to 90 degree shutter speed but then the movement looks choppy instead. 30p really is the perfect balance.

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Wordsmith9091 said:

This. I always think it's weird when people are dismissive of use cases just because they don't match their own priorities. It's a big world and people work in lots of different ways. Features that accommodate them (like making the same framerates available in one codec that are already being offered in others) aren't crazy to ask for when there's no downside to other users.

The answer to "who cares" is always "someone."

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Wordsmith9091 said:

This. I always think it's weird when people are dismissive of use cases just because they don't match their own priorities. It's a big world and people work in lots of different ways. Features that accommodate them (like making the same framerates available in one codec that are already being offered in others) aren't crazy to ask for when there's no downside to other users.

The answer to "who cares" is always "someone."

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rjensen11 said:

Wordsmith9091 said:

This. I always think it's weird when people are dismissive of use cases just because they don't match their own priorities. It's a big world and people work in lots of different ways. Features that accommodate them (like making the same framerates available in one codec that are already being offered in others) aren't crazy to ask for when there's no downside to other users.

The answer to "who cares" is always "someone."

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I think if you create a post with a provocative title, like "is this a joke", you may encourage snarky replies.

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