Originally posted by madbrain Well, for Pentax it seems to be about more than that. Many manufacturers limited their cameras to 29 minutes and 59 seconds to comply with EU rules and avoid the tax.
I can't really figure out where 25 minutes came from. Maybe the Pentax lawyers are more conservative than Canon, Nikon and Sony, and decided to play it "safe" and cut that down to 25.
Of course now in 4K mode with the 4GB limit it's just 7.5 minutes ...
One further thought on this, is that they may be taking the conservative approach, and allowing for customers who may use an SD-HC card instead of SD-XC - it's a lowest common denominator approach.
Originally posted by madbrain GH5 does 400 Mbps in ALL-I. And no recording time limit.
Really! I recall seeing articles quoting the lower number, but it would not surprise me if Panasonic adapts rate to better cards, or have raised the rate in firmware updates.
Originally posted by madbrain I played that game with multiple cameras a little bit, but it was really hard to grade the mismatched colors. I'm certainly not the most gifted video editor. 8bpc video on all my video cameras doesn't help for grading.
The footage I get from my GX85 at 100 Mbps in H.264 for 4K30 is mostly satisfactory when I use it as as single camera. I suspect the K-3 III 4K30 at 80 Mbps won't look much worse.
Not clear yet if the sensor area is bigger or not on the K-3 III since it has a crop. If it's the same area as 4K with MFT sensor, it may not actually collect more light.
Try doing it with a mix of HikVision security cameras, and Canon and Sony Camcorders,... That's my Wednesday nights at the moment.
Originally posted by madbrain Well, the camera would have to do the A/D conversion at 10 bits before it could output 10 bits via HDMI. Not clear if it does on the K-3 III. Is the HDMI output even clean ? And is it 1.x or 2.x ?
We'll need to look at the bits per pixel for stills to know, but even if it's 14 or 16 bits per pixel for stills, some are likely to be thrown away for the conversion to video, this comes down to the amount of processing power is available - 4K video is effectively 24, 25, or 30 3840x2160 Stills per second burst, until you press Stop... A lot of cameras throw away a lot of pixel data to 'get close enough' to what they can process.
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Originally posted by clackers Um, not completely out of the question, PDR, but by the look of it, it's a recording for an RMIT show, right? A stills photographer popping in and out of the frame to get shots would be unwelcome. If I was the director, I'd eject me from the space!
I'm the Tech Director and bring all the gear in,.... It'll be fine.
The recordings are being called "The Tune Up", done by the motorsport show "In Pit Lane".
(yeah, motorsport news show, that has had live music featured as part of the show, going back to the mid '90's)
RMITV is the association the TV show is done under, giving real world training to students, by association and industry alumni, with the show airing on C31 Melbourne, and the In Pit Lane youtube channel.
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Originally posted by Dave L Oh, and while we are discussing the K-3iii video shortcomings, I see from the available EU manual (English) that there is no 25p or 50p frame rate setting for anything. Nobody in the UK or much of Europe will be buying this camera for its video - which seems to be a "we don't really care" afterthought by Ricoh. On the margin, this will be a deal breaker if not added in say firmware, for me and some others anyway. My previous Pentax DSLRs all have this option, and I have used them all occasionally for 25p or 50i video.
Sometimes it's the little things that matter, even in expensive semi-pro technology.
That's gonna kill it here in Oz too - ALL cameras should do 24, 25, 30, 50 and 60 as MINIMUM.