Vernon Cope
Novice Member
I am really fed up of seeing adverts for camcorders, on the likes of Amazon, that claim 4K capability that clearly is not there. Furthermore there are people making YouTube videos about camcorders that are cheap and supposedly have 4K capability. Beneath such a YouTube video I recently placed this in the comments section :-
' This is "very affordable". Nearly all "very affordable" camcorders are illegitimately described in their adverts or very important information is left out or consigned to near the end of a long advert.
For me 4K resolution has to be 3,840 pixels * 2,160 pixels which is a ratio of 16:9. Manufacturers are getting away with calling 2,888 * 2,160 4K. It is a ratio of 4:3 which is clearly unsuitable for computer screens, television screens and cinema screens. It is going back to screens of a long while ago. They know that when we see "4K" we assume 3,840 * 2,160.
Another "4K" trick is that nearly all "very affordable" camcoders thus advertised do not give genuine 4K. What they do is interpolate (software enhance) 1080p and call that 4K. The result of that is dismal. You have only the pixels of 1080p and thus nothing can make that 4K, the data is simply not there.
So, in this case I ask any purchasers of this "4K" camera to conclusively state where we can discover the truth. Has it a resolution of 3,840 * 2,160 and is such resolution the source resolution and not merely software enhanced 1080p?
Here is a reasonable way of seeking out genuine 4k. If the camcorder has a resolution of 3,840 * 2,160 AND it can process 1080p at 120 frames per second then it is almost certainly genuinely 4K. Otherwise it is almost certainly not genuinely 4K '.
It seems that whatever is keyed into either an Amazon or Google search regarding 'Camcorder 4K 1080p 120fps' does not produce satisfactory results. Can anyone supply a list of the lower end of the market genuine 3,840 * 2,160 camcorders that create genuine (not interpolated) 4K?
' This is "very affordable". Nearly all "very affordable" camcorders are illegitimately described in their adverts or very important information is left out or consigned to near the end of a long advert.
For me 4K resolution has to be 3,840 pixels * 2,160 pixels which is a ratio of 16:9. Manufacturers are getting away with calling 2,888 * 2,160 4K. It is a ratio of 4:3 which is clearly unsuitable for computer screens, television screens and cinema screens. It is going back to screens of a long while ago. They know that when we see "4K" we assume 3,840 * 2,160.
Another "4K" trick is that nearly all "very affordable" camcoders thus advertised do not give genuine 4K. What they do is interpolate (software enhance) 1080p and call that 4K. The result of that is dismal. You have only the pixels of 1080p and thus nothing can make that 4K, the data is simply not there.
So, in this case I ask any purchasers of this "4K" camera to conclusively state where we can discover the truth. Has it a resolution of 3,840 * 2,160 and is such resolution the source resolution and not merely software enhanced 1080p?
Here is a reasonable way of seeking out genuine 4k. If the camcorder has a resolution of 3,840 * 2,160 AND it can process 1080p at 120 frames per second then it is almost certainly genuinely 4K. Otherwise it is almost certainly not genuinely 4K '.
It seems that whatever is keyed into either an Amazon or Google search regarding 'Camcorder 4K 1080p 120fps' does not produce satisfactory results. Can anyone supply a list of the lower end of the market genuine 3,840 * 2,160 camcorders that create genuine (not interpolated) 4K?
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