Dont buy a new video camera just yet

[awomanatwork]

Thank you Andy ... but like you say the price would need to fall. The footage I saw was of a football match where the clarity was so good you could clearly identify people in the crowd ... it really was remarkable.

[lensman]

There will never be a 'right time' to buy a piece of kit with new technology.Eventually,just as you thought it's the right time to buy it,you can be sure there will be something else better.

[awomanatwork]

Yeah, I know what you mean lensman ... and part of me agrees with you, but 4K looks good, very good - 3D for me was a joke- in fact anything that means putting on glasses or headsets doesn't work for me ... just a personal opinion.

[andy at handiwork]

Plenty of opportunities to play with some 4K kit at BVE later this month. OEJ and I will be going, anybody else?

[steveb]

It's remarkable technology, but with more and more people watching TV shows, movies and porn on handheld devices with small screens it's probably overkill for anything except cinema releases. Clarity isn't the same thing as quality anyway, if it was no-one would ever use diffusion or shallow focus.

I'm still more interested in bit depth than resolution. Better colour , more shadow and highlight information are what really sells an image to me.

[lensman]

Remember not that long ago we were all watching VHS,worse still,2nd or 3rd generation copy of VHS tapes!

[steveb]

A lot of people still are. Free porn sites are full of badly shot, badly duplicated, badly compressed porn that goes back years, even decades.

They're still getting views.