Of all the devices using digital storage, 4K video cameras may be the easiest to find the best storage solutions for. Despite the high-end capabilities of 4K, its specific needs are so rigid and demanding that finding storage for your 4K video camera is rather easy. There aren’t a lot of variables to make the selection overly difficult.
Before we get to what the important items are in choosing the correct storage, let’s talk a little bit about 4K itself.
The ‘4’ stands for the number four. The ‘K’ stands for thousand. So 4K represents the number 4,000. In this instance, however, it refers to any video resolution with a horizontal pixel count of roughly 4,000.
Why roughly? Well, because the term 4K is used to describe two separate but similar standards. In professional circles such as the Digital Cinema Initiatives (DCI), 4K resolution is 4096 x 2160 and is used for filmmaking. The 4K used in the consumer world (TVs and video equipment) is referred to as Ultra-High Definition (UHD) and has a resolution of 3840 x 2160. So one standard has more than 4,000 pixels, whereas the other does not. Hence, roughly 4,000 horizontal pixels.