8K When Stills & Motion Converge *Without Apologies or Qualifiers
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A few weeks ago, a portrait I shot got a bit of attention from the press at the Cinegear convention that takes place every year at Paramount Studios.
Here’s a link to the JPEG of the 8K image which I hope doesn’t blow up my account with DropBox here.
Cinegear is an event that brings together all of the leading tech for the cinema industry – it’s a wonderful event to attend and I can’t recommend it enough.
The Key here is that a STILL image garnered attention at a CINEMA event … why, well obviously it was shot on a motion camera at 8K – in this case the RED WEAPON 8K camera which is capable of capturing 36 megapixel stills in full RAW up to 60 times per second. And when you slow down to look at the quality of this image… it kind of speaks to the future of where we all are headed.
And don’t forget the RED 8K Weapon is capable of recording 30 seconds back in time … that’s 1800 full RAW 36 MP frames at the touch of a button … think about it.
And yes – you can use your Canon, Leica, Nikon and the majority of cinema lenses on this camera to pursue your visual dreams – whether they be in motion or still … why choose if you can get both? And you can control every function on this camera literally with you iPhone as well with apps like FoolControl…
While many will see the cost of a RED system as initially out of their reach, I would remind you of the 2 megapixel Kodak camera that shot 2 frames per second in 1999 … and of the iPhone that came out almost 10 years ago that obliterated that camera in many ways 7 years later. It’s just a matter of time before this technology makes it way into all of our hands as prices and mass adoption takes hold. And there are already plenty of much more affordable entry level systems that RED provides – I call them the gateway drugs to be perfectly honest. Once you see the quality coming off of these sensors … just as with still cameras you want more an more Megapixels and frames per second. FULL STOP.
While we can’t readily imagine a RED camera being sold on the shelves of Best Buy just yet … give it time. Mark my words and call me crazy … but the tech will definitely make its way onto consumer shelves much more quickly than many of us are anticipating. History has already proven this trend, and cycles are only speeding up…
Thanks for this 8K Framegrab, as it proves what I always see in shots of my own Epic Dragon and Epic MX cameras: watching an original 5K/6K/8K file on a 4K screen, it looks beautiful as still and motion video. But when it comes to pixelpeeping and cropping in, the Red stills are – no matter in which state of processing – more noisy and less sharp than a picture coming out of 1DX2, 5DsR, D810 etc.
This is the reason why I didn’t upgrade to any Red 8K camera yet and wait for future generations of improved sensors. When I do a 4K crop from an 8K image, I expect it to look like 4K, as it’s possible when cropping an 8MP image out of a 36MP or 50MP stills. I also would like to shoot at ISO6400 and receive clean and sharp results after editing. Right now my feeling is that the Dragon and Helium sensors are not quite yet there to provide that.
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Not quite sure of your point/demonstration here. With the subject holding still, yes you can pull stills from a motion picture clip shot at motion picture frame rates. I don’t think you would have been happy with your still had he been doing jumping jacks or even doing a big laugh. For that your shutter would have to be 1/250 or 1/500 which would have then resulted in very “video” looking footage. You would also probably have to change your light from the kino to an 18K also. I think we all get/understand that you can get a lot of frames from a RED but you still can’t kill two birds with one stone. Yet. But I’m sure RED will figure out a way to make the sensor do double duty and simultaneously shoot two different shutter speeds and ISOs on the fly. Maybe two sensors stacked on top of each other with the top one being translucent.
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The fact that you can pull a still from video these days that would hold up in print is astonishing.
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What about controlling your motion blur? Is that something you decide upon, and bump that up, knowing you’re going to still grab those portions, or are you shooting at one constant shutter speed for everything?
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