The Cellar - View Single Post - The photographers battle cry of "More Light!" has been re-written. "More Pixels!"

Undertoad · 07-30-2015, 03:59 PM

It shoots FHD video which is 2 megapixels. 1920x1080 is 2 megapixels. That's almost certainly the size of the monitor you are looking at right now, and higher video resolution than is offered to you by your cable company.

Modern movies are projected at Cinema 4K, 4096x2160, which is just a little more size than four of your monitors stitched together. ("4K" or UHD is 3840x2160 and that will be the resolution of the next monitor and TV you buy.)

So videographers only need 8 megapixel resolution to get really amazingly high def video right now, unless they want to edit and crop and stuff

WTF is going on, you ask, when modern point and shoot cameras are 20 megapixels for like $200?

Yes but the video camera shoot 60 images per second!

What's so special about that?

Nothing in particular! It's a lot of data -- but the latest GoPros shoot 4K at 30 times a second and they are tiny.

07-30-2015, 03:59 PM	#7
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	It shoots FHD video which is 2 megapixels. 1920x1080 is 2 megapixels. That's almost certainly the size of the monitor you are looking at right now, and higher video resolution than is offered to you by your cable company. Modern movies are projected at Cinema 4K, 4096x2160, which is just a little more size than four of your monitors stitched together. ("4K" or UHD is 3840x2160 and that will be the resolution of the next monitor and TV you buy.) So videographers only need 8 megapixel resolution to get really amazingly high def video right now, unless they want to edit and crop and stuff WTF is going on, you ask, when modern point and shoot cameras are 20 megapixels for like $200? Yes but the video camera shoot 60 images per second! What's so special about that? Nothing in particular! It's a lot of data -- but the latest GoPros shoot 4K at 30 times a second and they are tiny.