jojo

I too am somewhat sceptical.  Don't forget the electronics giants have spent the best part of the last 5 years desperately trying to REDUCE the output quality of their 1080p cameras.  The specification on the side of the box has been meaningless.  Here are some of the tricks that have been played:
 - Record only in non-standard 30.00 fps (Canon)
 - Record only 24fps or 25fps, depending on region (Sony, Panasonic)
 - No manual aperture control in movie mode (Canon, Nikon)
 - No manual ISO control in movie mode (Nikon)
 - Deliberately introduce timing artefacts into HDMI out (Panasonic)
 - Overlays on HDMI out (Canon, Nikon, Sony)
 - High bit-rate mode which results on a higher spec on the box but no improvement in quality due to inferior codec (Canon, Panasonic)

Strange article. Feels like you are sucked up in the resolution hype after all...  If you were talking about raw I would understand your points of view. After all we are all being fooled by the big companies. And we learned truths because of magic lanterns revelations. That relatively cheap camera's did hide a much better quality.
 
It is the codec that is keeping us in the dark ages, partly. The main reason of all the frustration is that sony, canon etc, is protecting there product lines.
 
Canon will not build a good moire and aliasing free (cheap) dslr because they build the c300 line.
 
No company will do that. There will be no full frame sensor aliasing free for a long time. Even the rebels that promised us so much like Red. They all got sucked up by the big money.
 
4k won't solve this. But I understand why you think it does... 4k does not allow room for moire aliasing etc. 
 
Perhaps. 
 
But now everyone wants the new sony 4k cam, even if it produces interlaced. Even if it does not have an interchangeble lens, no large sensor.
 
We don't care anymore because hey... it is 4k.
 
So new rebels won't even think of building a 1080p raw full frame sensor camera.
 
We all will cry that is is such a pity it isn't 4k!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

interesting visuals and concept, though felt it would have been much better suited to a music video.