JVC Unveils Handheld 4K Camera

4k is useless except for digetal cinema IMO. Still would rather have an fs100 for the same price

4K onto sd cards? anyone else see this as an issue? single 1/2" chip makes me cringe a little bit too. Whats the point of high resolution if the IQ is going to be shit?

JVC always seems to push the envelope first, they made some of the first consumer hd cameras and sony/pani/canon came out with better ones just a year or two later. Id expect the timing to be similar here.

I would but only so that I could change lenses, other than that I wouldn't.  it's clear 4K is the future, sure it might be a way out, and I'm not sure I'd buy this JVC, but 60P at 4K is pretty impressive.  I haven't read much about the codec, but I think I saw it was 144mb/s which is pretty impressive. 

Really? Couldn't you make use of a "crop" to 1080 to increase the zoom of lenses? (Might not really matter unless you have interchangeable lenses I guess). And I wouldn't be surprised if 4k monitors and TV's start coming out soon. I know some big company (LG I think) just announced a 4k TV. Won't be affordable I'm sure, but it definitely shows a step towards even higher resolutions becoming common. I guess 4k doesn't really give you an advantage for web use and current TV's. I don't film, so feel free to negate my opinion.

4K tv's and monitors are going to have a decent showing at NAB this year.

I wasn't really thinking "into the future". Speaking in terms of current times, most consumer monitors are 1080p, and web-based video hosting clients (youtube and vimeo) top off their resolutions at 1080p as well.

Wow okay. This is interesting. This 4k res looks like the future

I guess my point is at this point, had I not bought the camera I did, I wouldn't buy anything else and stick with my 7D for the time being.  Why by something that you know (granted everything will phase out eventually) is going to have a shorter shelf life because you can see what is coming already?

Youtube already has enabled 4K, and Vimeo is working on it.  Sure not everyone has the equipment for it yet, but it's trending that way.  Sure web delivery is smaller but thats not the point I'm making so much.  I should've stated it better.  I wouldn't buy any HD camera right now, I also wouldn't buy the JVC, but it's a good showing that the future is coming, and coming soon.

I'd wait for Sony or Panasonic to respond, heck even Canon even though they already fucked themselves with the C300. 

Right on. I'll be interested to see how popular they get in the coming years.

Oh look, 3D failed to find a niche in the home market so now they've resorted to 4K as another buzzword.

4K is probably the last thing that needs to be incorporated into cameras right now. A 1080p camera with good optics and solid codec will destroy a mediocre 4K camera any day.

I agree with this in the sense of the JVC camera in particular.  But we also haven't seen anything from it yet.  It's really hard to judge whether it will prove itself or not. 

I do disagree that it is just another buzzword though. 

I'm not saying 4K isn't awesome, or that it's the near future. What I mean is that to me it seems as if they're putting the carriage before the horse. Instead of simple fixes that would phenomenally improve image quality within 1080p resolution, they're moving on to 4K, which is only going to be the same shitty codecs and optics in more detail (speaking specifically of lower end cameras).

In terms of what RED is doing, 4K is an entirely different thing. They're actually making cameras that benefit from such high resolutions.