Tugela said:neuroanatomist said:Tugela said:All cameras with a Digic 7 processor will have the capability of shooting 4K video. So, if all of these cameras are projected to include a Digic 7, then all of them will shoot 4K.
Dual Digic 5+ gives the capability to shoot 4K video, so by your logic cameras with Dual Digic 5+ or the faster Dual Digic 6 should shoot 4K. The fact that only one of the five cameras with those processors actually does shoot 4K indicated that your logic is flawed.
The Digic 7 is the stills equivalent of the Digic DV5, in other words it will have a 4K encoder BUILT INTO the processor. The XC10 can shoot 4K without having thermal issues, so the same will apply to every other camera that uses the Digic 7/DV5 processor family.
Digic 5 processors DO NOT have a hardware encoder for 4K, it is done in software only. Neither does Digic 6. Digic 6 (and the corresponding Digic DV4) introduced 60p HD, and that is what it's hardware encoder does. If any camera containing those processors does 4K, it is done in firmware, not hardware, and that is why you needed multiple processors to handle the load and large bodies to fit into the thermal envelope.
If you look at the entire history of Digic processors, where a particular video format is implemented in hardware for that particular processor, the format is available for all cameras that have the processor.
But hey, let us completely ignore Canon's entire history with Digic, and pretend that something else will happen.
If these cameras have Digic 7, they will be able to shoot 4K as well. Perhaps not great 4K, but they will be able to do it.
But hey, let us completely ignore Canon's entire history of excluding (for marketing reasons) features of which products are technically capable. If you'd stopped at 'any camera with Digic 7 will be capable of shooting 4K' that makes sense. But to say they all will shoot 4K is not necessarily true.
Why isn't the 430EX III-RT an optical master?
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