I'm just a bit ignorant about the demand for 8k I guess. I mean do we even have computers that we can process that much data on? Or screens to view it on? I would think 4k would be sufficient for most customers? And if they demand 4k recordings for an entire event then you'd likely not be looking at a camera system like this anyway?
Proxies is your friend.
I can't speak for everyone, but I don't plan to publish to 8K for the foreseeable future. What I would do, is shoot 8K if the situation calls for it. I did not like the EOS R's 4K crop, but would use it as a tool if I needed extra reach. It was like an easy zooming solution because it had both crop and extra resolution which you could punch in even more if publishing in FHD.
One such use case for 8K is filming a band or performance on stage. As long as it isn't too long of a performance, you could put the R5 on a tripod and fit the entire stage. You could even include the audience as well. In post, you could have an establishing shot using the entire field of view. You could have an establishing shot of just the stage. The magical part would be zooming into the players or performers with no loss of resolution so it could look like a telephoto shot. And you could incorporate all the dynamic panning and zooming so when you complete an edit, you could make it appear as if you had multiple cameras recording a single performance. Obviously, you wouldn't get the telephoto effect of a telephoto lens, or the parallax effect from tilting/panning, but those would be lost on the untrained eye. It's that flexibility that gets me excited about 8K.
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