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    Juvenile Goldfinches

    I have been experimenting with 4k video on the EOSR recently In anticipation (yet to be realised) of watching it on the new TV.

    There have been plenty of juvenile goldfinches about the garden recently so I filmed them on the bird feeder and on the rockery.

    As 4K video also allows frame grabs I have given that a try as well and taken four frames from the videos I shot at points where there was as little movement as I could determine. All the shots have been processed in LR for light, effects and detail before posting

    I thought that it would be interesting to post them just to show the quality. The jpeg extract is 8.3Mb according to the manual so they will not be as sharp as they would have been using stills but they are of a perfectly acceptable quality. Note that a good composition was not necessarily the prime objective!

    EOR_4026 by Ian, on Flickr

    EOR_4025 by Ian, on Flickr

    EOR_4024 by Ian, on Flickr

    EOR_4023 by Ian, on Flickr

    Comments, as ever, are welcome.

    Ian


    Ian

    Flickr page https://www.flickr.com/photos/154026104@N07

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    Hi Ian, quite acceptable shots, but as you say they lack a little sharpness that would have been achieved had they been taken as stills. No doubt they are of excellent quality as video footage.
    Personally I'm not a fan of DSLR video and have never used it on any of my camera's. Having said that I do have dedicated video camera's.
    I do know someone who filmed his sisters wedding with a DSLR camera with the intention of 'frame grabbing' shots as stills. It turned out a complete disaster, the video was fine, the stills looked soft some to the degree you could say they were blurred.
    Be interesting to hear what others think of the video feature on DSLR camera's - is it necessary?
    But again acceptable set of shots considering the origin.
    Trev

    Equipment - According to the wife more than a Camera Shop got

    Flickr:
    https://www.flickr.com/photos/trevb2639/

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      #3
      Agree with Trev's comments above. Prefer the first shot, more natural than the feeder shots

      Paul

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        #4
        Hi Ian,
        First shot for me too.
        it is very interesting to see the frame grabs from the video and understanding the limitations.

        For me, I’m still trying to get to grips with taking still photographs to even think about dipping my toes into videos!
        I guess if I was out somewhere and came across an exceptional event I would give it a go.

        Rose.

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          #5
          I agree with the other comments. One way round it is if you're with a partner, one takes stills while the other takes video. Simples!
          http://www.cbnatureimages.co.uk

          http://www.flickr.com/photos/101212171@N02/

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            #6
            Thanks for looking everyone and the comments.

            I think that you need 4K before it is possible to take a frame grab with decent resolution. A 64GB card gave me about 16m of video so you need a lot of storage space, it will be interesting to see what they are doing with the R5 with its 8K video; on the basis that 8K is four times the resolution of 4K, the same card would have got me only 4m of video!

            Ian
            Ian

            Flickr page https://www.flickr.com/photos/154026104@N07

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