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few months ago, I was hanging out the side of an airplane, 3,000 feet above the ground, speeding at almost 150 miles per hour. It’s not my favorite place to be, careening through the sky sticking out of a plane, but I had good reason, and I’d been there before. This time, I was shooting 4K video of an air show pilot flying with us in close formation. The swinging prop of his flying hot rod, clawing the air at roughly 2,500 RPM, was barely more than ten feet from my head. And while I’m glad we had smooth air, this was also just another day at the office. I was using one of Sony’s new 4K camcorders, and once back on terra firma and sitting in front of my Mac®, the footage looked amazing. So good in fact, that when I screened some footage on a 4K display, I felt like I could reach into the television and run my hand along the smooth, composite wing.
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