Do we need 8K? First, a short journey to the past. A similar debate was heard over 4K. It turns out we did in fact need Ultra HD. The quality of 1080p on high resolution sensors wasn’t fantastic. Pixel binning. Line skipping. 4K was a way to get a full pixel readout and oversampling for a more film-like image, with less brittle look, fewer hard edges. Now we have affordable 8K ProRes with the Fuji X-H2 and full frame 8K on the more expensive flagship mirrorless cameras from Sony, Canon and Nikon, even medium format 8K with the Fuji GFX100 II… but so far Panasonic has shied away from it. A representative for Panasonic remarked on the lack of demand for 8K, implying the customer ain’t bothered. Although this hasn’t stopped team Lumix from giving us 6K with the S1H, S1 and S5 II. From the perspective of a TV company, perhaps 8K TVs are not exactly flying off the shelves, but from the perspective of cameras it might be a different story. So 8K…and beyond. It’s not actually about resolution, as in the absolute maximum detail you can ram into the audience’s eyeballs. Let’s really look into the actual advantages for cameras of high resolution sensors. Take a full frame camera for example, a high resolution sensor allows it to be multi-format in terms of lenses. It will be capable of using full frame lenses, Super 35mm cinema lenses and Super 16mm c-mount lenses, because the crop factors...
Published By: EOSHD.com blog - Tuesday, 26 September, 2023