Or they truly do.
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Other comments have pointed out valid things about cameras and resolving power. However there’s one phenomenon that might explain this feeling, and it’s the fact that not all 4K is created equal.
For an example of this, look up videos comparing the 8K video out of smartphones versus 4K video out of a Cinema camera like a red or arri. The Cinema cameras produce a very detail rich image, but the 8k phone video looks overshaprened because it’s not actually capturing more detail, just more pictures. The lens and the sensor in the phones is not capable of resolving 8k.
Phone manufacturers try to compensate for this by applying a sharpness filter, which does not create detail but simply adds boldness around detail that is already there. That sharpness filter is one of the things that make smartphone video look like it was shot on a phone despite the high resolution.
One of the things you might be seeing in “super detailed 4k” is overshaprening applied onto a video clip that has a ton of detail. When you do that it creates this weird crispy feeling to footage that is immediately impressive, but not enduringly beautiful. If you go into a electronic store and looks at TVs, all of them have the built-in sharpness filter turned up to try to wow people on the first glance. This might be the phenomenon you’re seeing.
However there’s a reason why filmmakers don’t oversharpen everything, it’s fatiguing. It looks fake, it looks wrong.
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Because inch for inch, they do. It’s the world shrunk down to a frame. But the other reason is, it’s flat. In the real world you have to focus on things at a certain distance, and that’s where all your clarity is while items near or far blur out. On a screen, it’s all as in-focus as the filmer wants it to be.
Also 4K videos if you are talking about movies or TV shows usually have “perfect” lighting and are heavily edited to look the best way possible
More of the screen is in focus.
When you look at something in real life you focus on that and things around it are out if focus, and you have to make a lot of corrections it bring multiple things into focus to build the image in your head.
For a movie, everything is in focus. And blown up so you can see more details.
I used to say this about Dreamcast games in elementary school.
Then I got glasses
It’s because the screen is closer and the camera is picking up more details than your eyes would at the same distance.
Three reasons I can think of:
* Good lights / good colour and light capture of the camera can make more details visible than in real life.
* When filming, focus is on a bigger part of the subject and the camera capture more details. When displayed on a screen, everything looks super much in focus, however in real life, you mostly only focus on one thing.
* Connected to the first bullet point: The screen you look at blast light onto your eyes, making every detail much easier to see. Try tuning down the brightness on the screen and you will start to miss some of the details.
Try taking something ordinary (like over ear headphones or other object that fits your hand with details on it) and hold it under a desk lamp and look at the details – take them in and you will see that you can see more details than normal.
Yes, this is true. If you have 20/20 vision you can see 60 discernible points per degree of your viewing angle. It’s recommended to watch movies where the screen takes up 35 horizontal degrees of your view. If you do the math on that you get 2100 pixels you’d be able to see on the horizontal. Pretty close to 2K. Anything after that, you wouldn’t be able to make out at the recommended viewing distance. With a 4K tv, you can always walk closer to the screen than is recommended to take in all those details.
Real life is rendered in lower resolution and upscaled selectively depending where you focus. Or something.
If it’s bad you really should get your vision checked. Without glasses my eyes are like VGA 640×480.
Lighting. My eyes can’t see details at low light and also when there’s too much light. I think if you have really good sunglasses that don’t overwhelm your eyes by filtering just enough light then you can see the shadows and highlights when the sun is out very strong. Also if you took the lenses of the 10k+ camera and used it has a viewing apparatus you’ll see the same details.
The camera is just recording what comes through that lens apparatus so you can see the details later instead of doing it live. It’s like the same way heat sensor cameras work. You can’t see heat and cold spots but a camera that converts it to visible light by using sensors and doing a color overlay, your perception of hot and cold spots is augmented into your limited sensory range
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