I must disagree. I believe it. I think its possible it’ll all blow up (people using it wrong and breaking their cameras). I watched the live announcement, he was definitely speaking sincerely.

And 6 seconds of 4k is huge. Most film clips are 3 to 5 seconds long. Its a $800 camera that shoots 4k. That’s incredible.

90 Seconds of 2k isn’t actually larger of a number than I recall. This is the first release. I have good expectations.

I believe that this hack is possible. I don’t think it’s practical however.

90-seconds of 2K might be useful if it manages to get past the crappy compression and line-skipping, but being limited to 1080p is nowhere near the top of the list of “what needs to be better in DSLR video”

6-second of 4K is completely useless. Even if most shots in an edit are 3-5 seconds long, I can assure that they are edited from takes that are a whole lot longer, even when shooting on film where every frame costs money. The idea of trying to actually plan and shoot anything of consequence in 6-second takes is mind boggling.

But who the hell even needs 4K? What on earth are you going to do with 4K? Short of a film-out 1080P is sufficent for every current likely distribution method. And even for film out it’s pretty decent.

The possibly interesting points of this are reduction of compression artifacting, 4:2:2 sampling, improved moire and aliasing performance, rolling shutter reduction and 60P.

4K on these cameras is a gimmick and much less valuable that the other suggested improvments.

Hmm, put me in the skeptic camp

I am not sure that tiny snippets of 4k has any value. Only 90s of 2k seems a bit limited too given its negligible increase over 1080p. If Trammell is getting 66Mbps sustained then this would allow 2.5k at the usual quality. Anything more than that means increasing compression or shortening time.

Until the chips support Dylan’s wishlist I think higher bitrates in 1080p is more significant. I have seen a few demos recently which show how aggressive the Canons get with compression when you introduce any high contrast areas into shot.

I don’t even want a higher bitrate necessarily – just a better encoding implementation. 49Mb/s of H.264 should be absolutely pristine, especially at only 4:2:0, but it’s not.

That’s why these hacks end up going with Motion JPEG – it’s a LOT easier to implement well.

Oh the hilarity. According to Bloom’s site they makers are now claiming they’ve been bought out by Canon, so no firmware.

So time to call BS on the whole thing?

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