Best camera to video football match & get high res photos?
Discussion
My son plays football in the Sunday league. I've been taking plenty of photos on my Nikon DSLR (with a 28-300mm lens so I can zoom in on the action), but whilst it's capable of taking video in practice I never do so as it's a faff to switch over - and when taking video I can't take photos (I think). As a consequence, I've got plenty of stills showing various fractions of him scoring a goal - but not a single video of the actual action taking place.
So I was wondering, if there is a system where the camera takes video by default, and whilst recording video - by pushing a button you can take a quick high res snapshot without interrupting the video? I appreciate that the video resolution will be 4k at best (HD would be fine for me), and ideally I get an 8MP photo taken at the same time (as I tend to crop further when editing the photos on my computer).
Obviously I'll need a 256GB memory card (or something similar) as it'll fill up quickly when taking 10-20 minutes of 4k video (in smaller clips of 1-2 minutes each)..
Suggestions are welcome!
So I was wondering, if there is a system where the camera takes video by default, and whilst recording video - by pushing a button you can take a quick high res snapshot without interrupting the video? I appreciate that the video resolution will be 4k at best (HD would be fine for me), and ideally I get an 8MP photo taken at the same time (as I tend to crop further when editing the photos on my computer).
Obviously I'll need a 256GB memory card (or something similar) as it'll fill up quickly when taking 10-20 minutes of 4k video (in smaller clips of 1-2 minutes each)..
Suggestions are welcome!
thanks JonChalk, that would be fantastic news. So with your camera, as you take a video and press the shutter button you can make a still image without stopping the video? That would be perfect.
Guess I have to try in a shop if the new Nikon DSLRs have the same option, or if I need to go mirrorless to get that feature.
Guess I have to try in a shop if the new Nikon DSLRs have the same option, or if I need to go mirrorless to get that feature.
Hmmmm I guess I may have to switch from DSLR to mirrorless...
Nikon says:
https://www.nikonusa.com/en/learn-and-explore/a/ti...
[i]With most D-SLRs, when you click the shutter to snap a photo while recording video, the video recording ends to allow the camera to capture the still photograph. This is no longer the case—at least not with Nikon’s flagship D-SLRs, the D4 and D4s—using the Live Frame Grab feature.
Using the custom settings, you can set the camera to simultaneously record Full HD video and still images. You need to be in Live View Mode, and set the shutter button’s functionality to simultaneously record a still photograph while continuing to record HD video when it is depressed fully. (Continuous shooting is not available.)
Still image files will be recorded at 1920x1080 pixels in size, with a 16:9 aspect ratio, and JPG Fine quality setting. This gives you approx. a 2-megapixel image. At 300 dpi, the image will be about 4x6-inches in size.
You might ask the question, ‘only a 2MP file?’ Odds are that the photographers who will be using this method are photojournalists, event or sports photographers who will be able to utilize the image file for their needs. For example, although printing of a glossy photograph is normally done from images with a resolution of 300 dpi, most newspapers can use images sized at 200 dpi. This would result in an image of around 8x12-inches.
If the still image is only going to be used on the web, then size is no longer an issue.[/i]
Whilst getting a 2MP image might work for pros, it is not really enough for what I'm looking for as I won't allow any cropping (I guess pros don't need to as they frame their images better than me
)
Nikon says:
https://www.nikonusa.com/en/learn-and-explore/a/ti...
[i]With most D-SLRs, when you click the shutter to snap a photo while recording video, the video recording ends to allow the camera to capture the still photograph. This is no longer the case—at least not with Nikon’s flagship D-SLRs, the D4 and D4s—using the Live Frame Grab feature.
Using the custom settings, you can set the camera to simultaneously record Full HD video and still images. You need to be in Live View Mode, and set the shutter button’s functionality to simultaneously record a still photograph while continuing to record HD video when it is depressed fully. (Continuous shooting is not available.)
Still image files will be recorded at 1920x1080 pixels in size, with a 16:9 aspect ratio, and JPG Fine quality setting. This gives you approx. a 2-megapixel image. At 300 dpi, the image will be about 4x6-inches in size.
You might ask the question, ‘only a 2MP file?’ Odds are that the photographers who will be using this method are photojournalists, event or sports photographers who will be able to utilize the image file for their needs. For example, although printing of a glossy photograph is normally done from images with a resolution of 300 dpi, most newspapers can use images sized at 200 dpi. This would result in an image of around 8x12-inches.
If the still image is only going to be used on the web, then size is no longer an issue.[/i]
Whilst getting a 2MP image might work for pros, it is not really enough for what I'm looking for as I won't allow any cropping (I guess pros don't need to as they frame their images better than me
)wouth said:
hmmm that's bad news... my old lenses won't fit 
Plenty of adaptors about, I ran a few Canon lenses on my A7 with a cheap metabones clone while I saved up for A7 lenses. You may lose some functionality / performance, less so if you splash out on a high quality adaptor, but at least you'll make use of lenses.Depends on the lenses; you may be better off trading them against new camera rather than try an re-use them AND spend money on an expensive adaptor.
Gassing Station | Photography & Video | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff