Originally posted by RonHendriks1966 How much is our crappy DVD?
So if you want to make a production that would end up on bluray we cannot use K-01? Or is this a matter of compression in the camera and not for endproduct?
Basicly is the question: Wich one produces likely the better video quality: K-5 or K-01?
I referred to Bluray for your information only. IMHO, Blurays use high bitrates to make copying as hard as possible. E.g., the Bluray Planet Earth with true 1080p footage which has stunning image quality runs at 20 MBit/s on average with peaks around 35 MBit/s. And it's not even using the AVC codec yet.
A DVD reencoded to H.264/AVC with very good quality (no visible loss) has about 1.5 - 2 MBit/s.
An MP4 data stream of 20 MBit/s average can have stunning quality. The problem is that the required computational power is so high and most real-time hardware encoders deliver poor quality, meaning you need a high bitrate to compensate.
The more capable software encoders on modern Intel multi core CPUs are
just capable to encode MP4 in realtime if you want good results.
Maybe, the Fujitsu Milbeaut M6 (Pentax Prime M) being a new DSP is a break thru here. Maybe, at a given bitrate, it's output quality is closer to software encoders than previous in-camera encoders.
If this is not the case, then the K-5's MJPEG with its incredible bitrate may indeed beat the K-01 in quality. However, IMO the high bitrate combined with the 4GB limit restricts the K-5 too much wrt recording time.