Cormorant in flight - a series of pics

[Ozzie_Traveller]

G'day all

My recently-new Panny FZ-2500 has a feature called "4K burst" whereby it shoots at 40 fps, stacks the images as an MP4 video for examination later. In that examination I can select as many individual 'frames' as I wish to become single images ready for follow-on activities. As with many digital cameras in video mode, it crops the frame during this process, the 20mpx dropping to 8mpx, with the responding alteration to apparent focal length being a multiplier is 1,5x. So when shooting at max zoom of 20x / 480mm FF equiv, my max suddenly becomes 720mm Equiv. The following images were all shot at maximum zoom. Needless to say ~ I am pretty chuffed at the sharpness and results

Typical exif - Panny FZ-2500; 1/1600s x F4,5; ISO-250

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As always, feedback welcome
Phil

[Isac]

I'm jealous!! Fabulous results Phil. Appears you've got a nice bit of new kit to play with. Colours are really good as well as being nice and sharp. They are the Little Pied Cormorant. We're starting to see a few Little Black Cormorants at our lake now so that's a plus.

[Ozzie_Traveller]

Thanks matey

Phil

[Isac]

You're welcome, they're good shots!

[kevinj]

I`m not sure what that all means but the pics are great,very nice series of pics.

[Ozzie_Traveller]

I`m not sure what that all means but the pics are great,very nice series of pics.

G'day mate

It comes down to 2 things ...
a) being a mirrorless camera, the frame rate is not restricted by the old clunker going up and down - and there are mechanical limits to that before something breaks. All my Panny cameras can shoot continuous at up to 60 frames per second. However I usually call a halt at 12fps with AF-C working nicely ... after this there are too many images to sort thru after the event!

b) most dSLRs & mirrorless cameras can be set into video mode. However there are two different 4k modes ... video and television. The Digital Cinema Initiatives standard for 4K resolution in the film and video production industry is 4096x2160 pixels [about 9mpx]. The 4K resolution standard for television and monitors is 3840x2160 pixels [about 8mpx]. Regardless of this difference, as our cameras shoot more than 4096 pixels across the sensor, the dSLR / mirrorless cameras have to either i) use the whole sensor but strip out a row of pixels every so on to reduce it to 4096x2160 pixels, or ii) use the central part of the sensor to get the 4096x2160 pixels, but as a consequence, it crops the sensor slightly giving a new 'crop factor' to whatever lens is in use

Unless the camera is primarily targeted to video users with single photos as an extra, choice ii) is the more commonly used one as it is a neat way of doing things ~ but just like the dSLR world of full-frame vs APS sensor crop factors, it also does things in video as well. So my new Panny FZ camera normally has a zoom lens of 24 to 480mm full-frame equivalent, but when in video mode with the 1,5x crop factor active it becomes the equivalent of 36 to 720mm

So as I am shooting in this special mode, the camera saves all the individual images into a stack for me to review in-camera at a later time. As I review image by image by image, I can select and save as a new single image any of the stacked images that appeal to me. Thus I could review a stack of say, 100 frames and keep 3 or 4 or 5 single images then delete the stack

Hope this helps
Phil

[Grumpy John]

A great series of images there Phil. All nice and sharp.

[eaglem]

A great series of images there Phil. All nice and sharp.

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