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What are the technical differences between photo and video?

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[DeepteshLovesTECH]

CinemaDNG 16Bit Raw video that Blackmagic/Sigma FP provides.
Essentially raw photos.

[ThreeCeeProductions]

I’m glad you cleared up the RAW video with Canon. I used to shoot Boxing. So hard to get the KO punch on the chin. I bought Canon because you could shoot the Video at high frame rate and pull out the frame with the punch on the button.

[juliencamard]

Explaining bit depth as the amount of information in a frame is quite a shortcut I think. It is down to what happens in each pixel of the sensor, how light is converted into a digital value (from dark to bright).

Bit depth is the number of values that the pixels in your image can be. It's like a ladder from dark to bright. More bit depth means more bars in the ladder, so more ability to distinguish close intensities.

For example, take 2 neighbour pixels in an image with a very close brightness. Coding them in 8-bit, (i.e. they can take 256 intensity values) say their respective value are 128 and 128. In 10-bit (1024 levels), they are more bars in the ladder and they get coded 512 and 513, so 2 different values!

Anthony is right in that you'll get more information as you managed to separate close intensities that would have been mixed forever!

[anecro]

It's also the fact that video frames aren't processed the way photographs are, not even close. You can do a lot of crazy good processing when taking a photo, but video doesn't have a lot of those capabilities, otherwise we'd be recording exclusively videos and pulling individual frames to use as stills.

[pranavgaonkar]

But even if you shoot raw video, it's going to be a pain in the ass to edit and store all that footage for most people

[ecellis]

Great explanation, I had an idea but didn't know the facts behind it

[TgXYT]

definitely finish the manga bro, thats all imma say🙏🏽

[deceptivebanana]

Thank you I learned something new today

[FriedFx]

I love the R5. Such a beast of a camera. Beautiful images and video.

[xnamkcor]

"One good reason why not to shoot videos using photos is the picture quality is better".

[leonaimene]

There's also the buffer, you can shoot just for few seconds before you fill the buffer

[what]

Not only but depth, but you also can get higher resolution when taking photoes if your camera has at least more than 8mp

[ardencarling]

Key thing to remember: 14b is not 1.4x more information than 10b, it's 8x more! each additional bit doubles the number of values that can be recorded

[heartshapedfilms]

Strange to flex the raw video. But the bit depth is still greater in photos though also why would you need to shoot and more than 1 frame. Unless your trying to capture a lot of action

[pixeldesigns]

the real reason is the buffer my friend, when the buffer fills you have to let it flush

[yirung]

Umm even if we can shot video that has comparable bit depth of a photo it still doesn’t make any sense because of motion blur.

[bryceblazegamingyt]

No. 10 bits are for every pixel. A bit is a single 1 or 0

[marres-pojkvan]

Why not shoot a video with continuous shooting

[lalamiya]

You can try this in Instagram
Post a photo from your gallery as a story
Then post again the same photo with a music song which turn the story into a video and lose quality

[tlfilms]

have yet to see any Canon 5D line that takes nice video, they all look DIGITALL