4K video camera for only $5k!

newsroom.jvc.com/2012/01/jvc-unveils-wor...ndheld-4k-camcorder/

JVC GY-HMQ10
3840×2160 footage at 24p, 50p, or 60p
At a retail selling price of $4,995 
market deliveries beginning in March, 2012. 

hells teeth! that's surprising. Thanks

Looks like we are really moving to 4K.

Philip Bloom wrote a great article on how he thinks 4K is going to be used. I agree, I think 1080 is what we will be creating in, but with 4K we will be able to recompose shots in post.

Recompose how? It's the same thing, just higher resolution. We will still have the same digital constraints as we've always had since SD.

"The ability to re-frame is a great “get out of jail free” card. " - Philip Bloom ( philipbloom.net/2011/11/20/scarlet/ )

Meaning if you work in 1080 but have a 4K image you can scale and crop and zoom with out scaling above 100% (if you are working in 1080)

With the work I do, I can't see going to 4K anytime soon. Heck, I usually still output most projects to DVD, I would say only 25% of my projects go to BluRay. And even then most people I know treat Bluray like DVD and want just basic menus and no Popup menus or Multi-paging menus. (Well they also just don't want to pay the extra cost for me to create a disc with those features)