Panasonic GH4 Stills
Stills from video
Recently, I had an opportunity to take the Panasonic Lumix GH4 on a brief photo-walk around the historical market town of Dursley in Gloustershire. I concentrated on shooting short video clips, lasting around ten seconds, to test the new 4K video systems. I wanted to look at the quality of a still frame from the video clips and decipher whether a still of the video would be good enough to print?
The answer was a little subjective, as it depends on what your comparing the images to, for example the images where never going to compete with my Canon 5D. However, the approach of pulling a good quality still from a video file does open up a different approach, mainly because you are selecting a still from a period of time instead of trying to capture the perfect exact moment. For my test I mainly filmed reflections from shop windows and when I reviewed the footage I tried to pick the still that captured the most information.
Panasonic GH4 stills from video
Panasonic GH4 stills from video
Panasonic GH4 stills from video
As Bill Brandt once said, “Photography is not a sport therefore there are no rules” Experimenting is essential and this approach is fun and very easy to achieve with the Panasonic GH4. However selecting a still from a long clip could become a bit tiresome.
