ahsanford said:Nininini said:It's not that simple, canon explained it before and it has been asked many times.
"My smartphone X,Y,Z can shoot in 4k, why can't canon product X,Y,Z do the same??".
The problem is heat, anything APS-C and above shooting in 4k produces a massive amount of heat. Look at Sony, their cameras are actually shutting down to protect the internals from melting during 4k recording.
It's not the case that Canon wants to "protect their EOS line", they're entirely different markets, it's a technological problem.
It is far more complex than just a firmware update.
I agree, but didn't they figure out FF 4K video with the 1D C*, some three years ago? That rig wasn't packing a boatload of additional heat sinks or something -- wasn't it basically a stock 1DX internally?
(*I don't understand video recording onboard vs. with an external recorder and all that -- please explain it to me. I very well may be missing an obvious distinction at play here.)
Unless I've misunderstood the quality / compression / style of 4K people wish to record -- which is entirely possible as I am a stills guy -- it would seem reasonable to bring that feature set downmarket to the 5D line.
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No and no. The 1DC shoots 4K in a native pixel APS-H crop mode and it does have a rather large internal heat sink/pipe arrangement. The hardware also differs from the 1DX in the audio ports.
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