Originally posted by NZ_Ross I will comment on this, as I choose to use 4K gear for making vlogs and teaching videos and YouTube. We downsample our 4K recordings to 1080p for publishing at the moment. This results in a very 'clean' high quality video output. Using 4K also future proofs the recordings for a few years time when the standard will be more widely adopted.
That was the thinking that went my decision making.
Yeah, you might argue that it's for the future, Ross, rather than the now, but that's not the YouTube argument ... those guys need hits this week, and every week, or they don't get paid. What they're doing is broadcast TV.
And delivery is actually what it's about. You might have downsampled to HD, but that footage all crumbles under streaming compression, it doesn't matter what it looked like in your study when you clicked on the Export button.
Do you remember Game of Thrones? That's shot in 4k. But pretty much everyone in the world saw it in HD over the Internet. One of the key episodes set at night looked great to the editors in front of their big monitors with its epic battle scene.
But for viewers, after being compressed for transmission by Netflix, it arrived with those scenes crushed to black. People were listening to the audio to help work out what was going on.
So I think there's this enormous gap between theory and practice. If you put a 4k video up, almost none of us will see it in 4k, or how you rendered it in 1080, either.
FWIW, as far as Ricoh goes, I think it almost certain the K-new will have 4k video.
But that'll end up being another feature I don't use, but pay for. I edit phone footage in HD and once did a Panasonic GH5 shoot in HD because of the audience's devices and my own editing laptop, which was thankful for big files a quarter the size they might have been.
And I think my situation is the 'normal' one for camera owners. If the Northrups couldn't justify it financially - and they do it full time for a living - I certainly can't.
On a related topic, search on YouTube for Albert Siegel, a valued longtime Pentax Forums member and contributor who's very close to 1000 subscribers, and help him out. His channel might become financially viable. He's got a genuine journalist background unlike the Cameraville guy. You also might show your support for the videos made by Kobie Mercury-Clarke and Eddy Summers (Bruce Banner).