A question about 8K cameras

rerun119

Is there only one 8K camera on the market? Are there other 8K cameras about to come out?

If you are a VR company then you have to know that people don't like the scaling of that camera at all. I just saw that the new @realjamvr video is 8K. Then I read in the comments that it looks bad. My heart sunk because I know what that means. Another studio down the drain with this camera.
If the two biggest companies don't use the camera (SLR and POVR) then why do other studios keep spending money on this thing?

If there is a vortex that sucks all studios into buying 8K cameras and they are all going in that direction at some point. Please tell me that there is going to be a competitor camera before it is too late.

SchnuppiLilac

rerun119 I don't think there is THE RealJam camera. In their videos you will find a variety of production locations (US, EU) that are familiar from various other studios (incl. POVR/Wankz), so the cameras used vary depending on production team. Most of the recent RJ 8K videos were clearly shot at LethalHardcore house, so these videos might just look like any recent video released under LH flag.

doublevr

rerun119 https://forum.sexlikereal.com/d/2928-slr-originals-is-getting-back-on-zcam-k2-pro/

we actually just hacked Canon camera. if tests prove to be what we expect we will be getting back on 8K

doefi3

why studios use it? my guess is its a marketing gimmick
people think higher resolution=better. As you, i, and many notice thats not the case and its sad thats the direction most vr studios went

spacepirate

from what i gather producers like using this canon 8k camera more and it makes the post production workflow easier for all the studios that were upscaling 6k footage to 7k or 8k to appeal the dopey "bigger number = better" crowd.

there might be some element of sunk cost fallacy at play there too? theyve spent a not insignificant amount of money on this camera and that makes them reluctant to abandon it even though doing so is evidently the better choice.

rerun119

Is there only one 8K camera in the whole world that can be used for VR? I know nothing about cameras but I would think that there would be more than one.

petermc

I think it was the first one and the one studios all lined up for before most of them slowly abandoned it when they realised that a large proportion of their customers didn’t like how the scenes looked. I’m not aware of any other camera coming out.

In terms of visual quality, I still think Wankz/POVR are hard to beat with whatever setup they have. Obviously, whether you like their content is another question but the picture quality is the best around in my opinion.

stst12

petermc I think CzechVR's quality is better than WankzVR

stst12

doublevr what do you mean by "hacking" ? So did you fix the giant girls and other issues and how

metichemsi

doublevr what is this sorcery you speak of?

rerun119

doublevr Will you guys show us one video so that we can give feedback before you go all in?

metichemsi

doublevr any update on this? we are dying to see the results

petermc

stst12 I find that their scenes sometimes are a bit blurry. When there’s fast movement, like if a girl is jerking the guy off, I find the 3d sometimes goes a bit wonky. They’re not bad though. Virtual Taboo are pretty good too.

metichemsi

petermc Hard to tell their reasons, I own the camera and usually if you see that wonky part on faster motion it usually means they only shot at 30fps and interpolated to 60fps.

Regarding the blurriness the lens itself has a manual focus ring so if they dont ensure their focus is correct anything beyond a certain distance will look blurry. Also, I'm guessing they are shooting at the widest aperture f2.8 which also has a shallow depth of filed but needs less light, I personally always try to nail my focus and shoot at f4 or f5.6 which in general has the best sweetspot and much wider depth of filed, specially compared to f2.8, which I can see people use all the time to not have to supplement as much artificial light instead.

Just my guesses based on my experience with the camera so far.

doublevr

rerun119 that's the plan. Should be early next week

petermc

doublevr probably best to do more than one before going full steam ahead. There has been the odd scene here and there with the 8k which I’ve thought looks ok but then it’s followed days later by one which looks horrendous.

metichemsi

doublevr will this be a scene release on the site or on a post on the forum?