Special 4K and 6K Photo modes may be one of the most under-appreciated features on recent cameras. After all, with today’s models boasting impressive performance and high frame rates, why would you need them? In this week’s episode, Chris and Jordan take a closer look at these modes and explain why – and when – you’ll be glad to have them on your camera.
For more information check out our in-depth article explaining 4K Photo mode:
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is this will affect the shutter count of camera? panasonic S1 has 400k shutter life.
0:40 Um, 4K is TWO TIMES the resolution of 1080p, not four times the resolution.
Excellent video explaining 4K and 6K and why they might be useful! Thanks!
Watching this a little late, but this was very helpful. As always you do a great job explaining and make it fun. I've got the 4K on my FZ1000 but never really used it, but now I will. More importantly, I've had my eye on the G9 so have some knowledge for future use. Thanks again for a fun and helpful video.
I am a little confused, I have been doing a little video shooting but I am a beginner at that so maybe I am missing something. My dslr Raw files have 14 stops of dynamic range in the file and I then compress it down to output in a jpeg image. When I look at my video footage it seems it is already compressed and there is way less data to play with. The other thing I notice is even my old D700 is 14bit and your super awsome GH5 is only 10. That is a massive difference.
can you save multiple photos off these 4k/6k "video" files?
Great video, but I cannot understand the montage language you used throughout the cuts 🤔
Aren't the 6K Photo Mode photos 10-Bit HEVC ? so technically they are superior to regular jpg files.
want a review of that canon eos 3 shown in the vid pls
what lav/wireless system do you guys use? G3? Sony? Rode?
Drop the flip flops!
Very good summary! One thing you didn't mention though: The relatively crappy AF in 4K/6K photo mode (even on the G9, not to speak of the lower models).
I use this feature a lot with my Panasonic G80. I just wish it had raw!
`4k and 8k doesnt make sense, no phone supports it and right now you cant stream it to your phone, (bandwith). right now i notice a shift from pc to mobile devices for watching video's. reason why larger youtube channels dont bother with 4k or higher. its going to take a while before it does.
It really is a cool feature to play with, but the fact that you can only extract jpegs renders the 4K/6K photo mode useless for me. The workflow is elegant indeed and I like that Panasonic offers such features, however I would only use it in very extreme situations where each split second matters, e.g. right when the baseball bat hits the ball.
Hey Chris, I'm using A Panasonic GH4 and as you may know, it's capable of shooting 40 fps 16MP stills with the electronic shutter. What added benefit does 4K photo mode gives to me, from shooting just with the electronic shutter?
Thanks, George.
These instructional and educational videos are great and I really appreciate watching them. Great work guys!
Excellent explanations! Thank you.
ideal when you wanne shoot lightningstorms 😉
G85 has the same feature as the GH5…great explanation!
It's H.265 or HEVC, not H.264. Therefore it better than normal video grab
Thank you man, you made me understand it clearer. Cool!
Chris, have you found software that easily lets you extract 6K Photo Mode stills? I can't find anything and thus once the 6K video has been copied to my Mylio library I have no way to get at the stills. Would love to see you add a workflow element to this video.
A benefit that's not detailed enough in this video is the workflow benefit. Let's say I have scenes I need images from and it requires burst. Either I end up with a few thousand still, or a handful of video files. The speed of transferring a single h.264 video that can be transferred sequentially to an SSD is way way faster than doing it with individual JPEG files. Changing white balance on a single h.264 video file is way faster than doing it on 1000 images (yes even in one batch operation). It's also far less prone to errors because the integrity check involves a single video file and not thousands of individual image files. Your images are contained into this one robust file that can easily be copied, easily managed, and easily error checked. I used to zip files for this very reason, the robustness of containing your images into a single file.
It's weird that some people don't understand the benefit of video frame grabbing. I have been doing this for years now. It gives you 60 FPS burst, and it's a 30 minute burst mode.It's only 2MP (for 1080p) or 8mp (for 4k), but that's not the point. The point is that you can grab the exact moment every single time.The counterargument that the shutter speed is too low is silly, when I shoot specifically for frame grabbing, I am not shooting video at 1/24 or 1/30 for a "cinematic look", I am shooting video at 1/200 or 1/400. I don't care about the video, I care about the frame grabs.
Stills from video are already used everywhere on news sites. Including sports. Even with a shutter speed at 1/60 or 1/120, you still get a sharp picture every other frame, which is usually good enough.
I often shoot video at 1/400 with the only goal being able to grab frames, my camera does not have a 60 FPS burst mode that can last for half an hour…but I can do this with video @ 1080p. (I don't really care that it's only a 2MP image, that's rarely the point, I just want to capture something that I'm uncertain of when it will happen).
Dislike the video. You guys should have put the warning earlier. Already pull the mechanical shutter out from the camera
Thanks for the great video on this subject. I'd be curious to know what software you use with the 4k/6k video files to edit/extract images. The H.265 format has yet to be adopted by various editing software packages and makes it a rather tedious process. Also, I tried this with fast moving birds and got some really strange looking curved wings due to rolling shutter.
While I have pulled frames from video, they were very specific frames that, given the shutter speed I was able to take advantage, but usually what happens is just that; the compression from the video format and the shutter speed is really something that can play against you, specially if you're working with DSLRs that don't have the features those lovely mirrorless have. Still, they're great additions which help that situation I found myself in sometimes, where you wish you could just do video and pull some stills from any situation.
You missed the opportunity to talk about planetary and deep space photography where people stack thousands of 4K frames in Registax to average down the noise and bring out tremendous detail.
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Love you Chris, you're an awesome speaker, mesmerised always
Great video guys – I have a ZS-100 and never really understood what these modes were. Now I do! Thanks so much!
GREAT video, explained so much!
Can the G9’s High Resolution mode create 8K photos?
Very well explained! My favourite Youtube channel!!
If your only object is getting a good picture then fine. but shooting video and searching frames for a perfect shot is like spray and pray. it does not feel like photography to me personally. it's like buying an app that does it all for you.
Thanks for this review. I purchased the G9 a month ago and really enjoying all of it's features. Huge upgrade from the Sony AX33 camcorder.