What has 4K done for you? (Page 2): Pulling stills works very well. The result is an 8mp JPEG that can hold up fairly well for printing. Lightroom, as well as other common software...

bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA

PH CIB wrote:

Nothing at this point,,,but I am wondering if pulling stills from video might become the norm for sports and action and birds in flight and wildlife photography in the future with the faster frame rate and not missing the moment....

Pulling stills works very well. The result is an 8mp JPEG that can hold up fairly well for printing. Lightroom, as well as other common software, makes it easy.

rgrenaderphoto Loc: Hollywood, CA

I have a 4k Sony flatscreen and refuse to pay the additional costs for 4k video.

bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA

nimbushopper wrote:

No, I don't do video at all!

It is not just video. With some of the newer cameras from Panasonic and Sony, it is continuous burst 8mp JPEG shooting at 60 frames per second.

speters Loc: Grangeville/Idaho

bsprague wrote:

Has 4K changed anything for you?

-Do you have a 4K TV?
-Have you made a 4K slideshow?
-Do you shoot 4K video?
-Have you watched your own 4K clips on a 4K TV?
-Do you edit 4K video?
-Have you captured JPEGs from 4K footage?
-Have you made a print from a captured 4K JPEG?

Nothing, have watched a few movies in 4K, but I was not impressed

Bill_de Loc: US

My Panasonic uses 4K to do focus stacking in camera. I have used it a couple of times and it works.

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bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA

rgrenaderphoto wrote:

I have a 4k Sony flatscreen and refuse to pay the additional costs for 4k video.

You should try viewing your own photos on it. Maybe even try making 4K slide show.

If you are a Lightroom user, you can use it to "develop" some favorite RAWs and put them in a slideshow for your new, bigger, better TV at four times the resolution of what we've been doing for a decade.

The newer 4K models have enough computer in them that you can control you slide show with the TV remote. You'll never miss your Kodachormes on an old Kodak Carousel again!

BebuLamar

I like it. I have a 4KTV. I watch 4K blu ray on it. I view some images that I took on it, with 8MP it's great.
I tried 4K video with my iphone but it's kinda bad.

bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA

Jay Pat wrote:

Nothing, that I'm aware of.....
Pat

Grinning here Pat, but have you moved forward from Tri-X yet?

bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA

Dr.Nikon wrote:

I have a 65” 4K SUHD Samsung .. have an APPO 4K pl... (show quote)

"Basically 4K anything costs $$$ ..,"

Not really. Check the TV prices and choices. 4Ks have become cheaper than the HDs of only a few years ago. So, if you need a TV, 4K is a good choice.

Once a photographer has one, he can change a little of the workflow and slideshows are greatly improved.

So for a photographer shooting with good cameras, a big 4K TV is justifiable just for viewing his/her own work.

bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA

Bill_de wrote:

My Panasonic uses 4K to do focus stacking in camera. I have used it a couple of times and it works.

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If you go to photography trade show, Panasonic will be the one pushing 4K more than anyone else.

At one local show the Panasonic people had a stack of big prints from Canon's best printers. All of them were out of the 4K tools in the Panasonic firmware.

RWR Loc: La Mesa, CA

4K got me a 55mm Zeiss Otus. The TV was .25K.

mwsilvers Loc: Central New Jersey

Kuzano wrote:

What is 4K? I see that designation everywhere?

You could try Googling it. It's screen resolution. High definition or 1080p is a screen resolution of 1920 x 1080. 4K is actually 4 times to he resolution of high definition with a resolution of 4096 x 2160. The 4096 is where the term 4K comes from.

mwsilvers Loc: Central New Jersey

bsprague wrote:

"Basically 4K anything costs $$$ ..,"

Not really. Check the TV prices and choices. 4Ks have become cheaper than the HDs of only a few years ago. So, if you need a TV, 4K is a good choice.

Once a photographer has one, he can change a little of the workflow and slideshows are greatly improved.

So for a photographer shooting with good cameras, a big 4K TV is justifiable just for viewing his/her own work.

I have two Samsung 40" 4k televisions that I purchased from Costco last Black Friday for $299 each. They are incredible to watch, with images so sharp they seem almost three dimensional with well shot program material. Very noticeably better than the somewhat smaller high-definition sets they replaced. I also have a Samsung 28in 4k computer monitor which cost $270 last Black Friday. Not only is it great for image editing, but it's terrific for watching Netflix and Amazon Prime videos at my desk in my home office, and doing general work in programs like Microsoft Office. Once you have a large 4K computer monitor, it's hard to work with anything smaller. And while top-of-the-line current models can be pricey, 4K monitors and TVs in general are not pricey at all.

n3eg Loc: West coast USA

PH CIB wrote:

Nothing at this point,,,but I am wondering if pulling stills from video might become the norm for sports and action and birds in flight and wildlife photography in the future with the faster frame rate and not missing the moment....

And that is the future of photography and my next camera upgrade.

bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA

n3eg wrote:

And that is the future of photography and my next camera upgrade.

My first 4K camera was the relatively inexpensive Panasonic LX100 compact "travel" camera I was given 3 years ago. I use it for both stills and video. Some of the clips have produced pleasing prints at 13x19 from a Canon Pro-100.