It’s useful in photography. 8K is 33 megapixels, which some modern cameras can exceed (whereas 4K is 8 megapixels which every camera exceeds).
Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs
Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 days ago
Yeah, no shit. The only possible use is gaming, and even PC owners have been upscaling for some time now.
The only case where you might even notice a difference by going to 8K resolution is high end VR, but that’s no reason to have 8K in a TV.
Even 4K is overkill for most movies. The HDR is the selling point there, which I’ll admit looks nice.
trougnouf@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Obi@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
Not really, there isn’t much of a point in viewing your images at native resolution while editing. In fact in lightroom when you’re viewing the entire image you’re always looking at downscaled version anyway for performance reasons and need to punch in to see actual pixel level detail.
trougnouf@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Not the case in darktable, and it’s useful at least to see the noise/details trade-off.
Obi@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
You’d definitely want to zoom in for that anyway unless you’re working on a huge screen and looking at it upclose. I’m literally a pro lol.
sunbeam60@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
Agree that it’s HDR, not actually resolution that makes that much difference.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 days ago
That and the motion smoothing that looks really good on the display videos in the shop where it’s always splashing paint, or dripping honey, or tracking shots of trees, but it makes movies and TV shows look terrible, like the behind the scenes footage before they put all the effects in.
sunbeam60@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
First thing I do to a tv is flick it into a colour graded mode and flick all motion smoothing off.