Yep, it equates to a 12mp still. If your moving, it most likely will be a blurred shot, this is the case in my experience. So you need to be “still” during that time to pull a proper shot out of a 4K video. You might as well take a proper photo. You will NEVER get a high quality shot while the camera is moving and the subject is not. We get lucky with our stable aircraft shooting 1/300 to 1/500 SS. It works, but when you get down to a SS of 120 and your moving, your not getting a quality shot that you could blow up to a 2x3 poster or whatever. It might look great on your device, but will look horrible when printed. There’s lots of ways to obtain photos in photography. Just like there’s lots of ways to paint a car, I’m sure you’ve seen a car that has been spray painted with cans, right.?
Bottom line, if you need to shoot 60 shots a second to get a good shot, you might want to practice a bit more at capturing a quality still. It’s called spray and pray and is something beginners in photography will do. Ever see a person with a dslr shooting in rapid on a motionless subject?
I’m not saying you can’t do this, many people do. It is just not the proper way to obtain a proper still shot, just like spray painting your car with spray cans is not the proper way to paint a car.
The point of 4K footage is
not to extract stills, but to create awesome 4K video. However, the excellent still extracts from 4K footage on the
P4P is just one more reason to shoot in 4K, as shooting in 1080p will result in completely unusable still extracts, even by my standards!
I have been taking still extracts out of my 4K video footage for over two years. Since the subject is landscape, which is isn't moving and is essentially at infinity, while the drone is flying forward, the gimbal stabilizes the forward movement of the drone and keeps the images sharp, and the shutter speed for our wide angle lens can even be as slow as 1/60 at 60fps with excellent results.
The advantage of the 60fps is you can choose the very
sharpest still frame from among several at the decisive moment that you captured, and can select the frame where the composition is also the best, without any cropping.
I have several 2x3 foot poster images, mounted on the wall in frames, taken from 4K drone video that will stand up to even your scrutiny,
when viewed at a normal viewing distance for such a large print. When viewed on my 27" 4K Dell monitor, they are also tack sharp, with every street and business sign completely legible while flying along, from above, at even 30mph. Try it. You'll like it!
