GH5 6K Photo NR vs JPEG stills @ ISO3200
Pixel peepers beware. Here's how motion picture technology has evolved and now quietly running all over what we (during all these years) considered "the stills mode" in a traditional system camera.
(these two images were shot quite briefly, will do some more tests later on)
Take a look at this 6K Photo vs JPEG stills comparison shot briefly with my pre-production LUMIX GH5. The left picture was shot the good old fashioned way, no fuzz really, stills mode... shutter, bam... and a JPEG comes out in full glorious 18MP. On the right side, I shot with the very same settings, but a short burst of 30fps 6K Photo (video) compressed in H.265/HEVC in 18MP resolution. Yes, the camera will happily shoot that until you say stop or something has to go, like the memory card or battery (whichever comes first).
I shot these two at ISO 3.200 to make it more interesting, and you'll see some other examples later on shot at ISO 12.800. Which of the two images would you prefer?
The 4K/6K Photo mode in the new GH5 benefit from a power house of a 5-core processor/engine capable of advanced 'Temporal Noise Reduction' at these resolutions and frame rates, a feature that relies on the fact that there are adjacent frames.
Think about that for a moment. :)
DISCLAIMER: These images were shot on a pre-production GH5 camera, and may therefore not be representative to the performance of full production cameras when made available to the market.
GH5 6K Photo NR vs JPEG stills @ ISO3200
Pixel peepers beware. Here's how motion picture technology has evolved and now quietly running all over what we (during all these years) considered "the stills mode" in a traditional system camera.
(these two images were shot quite briefly, will do some more tests later on)
Take a look at this 6K Photo vs JPEG stills comparison shot briefly with my pre-production LUMIX GH5. The left picture was shot the good old fashioned way, no fuzz really, stills mode... shutter, bam... and a JPEG comes out in full glorious 18MP. On the right side, I shot with the very same settings, but a short burst of 30fps 6K Photo (video) compressed in H.265/HEVC in 18MP resolution. Yes, the camera will happily shoot that until you say stop or something has to go, like the memory card or battery (whichever comes first).
I shot these two at ISO 3.200 to make it more interesting, and you'll see some other examples later on shot at ISO 12.800. Which of the two images would you prefer?
The 4K/6K Photo mode in the new GH5 benefit from a power house of a 5-core processor/engine capable of advanced 'Temporal Noise Reduction' at these resolutions and frame rates, a feature that relies on the fact that there are adjacent frames.
Think about that for a moment. :)
DISCLAIMER: These images were shot on a pre-production GH5 camera, and may therefore not be representative to the performance of full production cameras when made available to the market.