Earlier this month, we introduced you to Joe Capra‘s love for ultra-high resolution time-lapse films. In his latest film, Joe (a.k.a. Scientifantastic) had captured the streets of the City of Angels in images so sharp they almost hurt the human eye. But with the upcoming Olympic Games in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro, the time might be just right to revive some of Joe’s “older” films.

Some three years ago, Joe was sent to Rio on assignment to shoot some Ultra HD 4K and 8K time lapse footage for a major electronics manufacturer. The 8K video above (with some screenshots below) is a compilation of some of the footage he shot then and there. Most of the locations are within Rio, but you can also see the famous Iguazú Falls, one of the seven winners of the New Seven Wonders of Nature.

“No wonder the beautiful city of Rio De Janeiro was chosen to host the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics.”

Joe used various Canon lenses on his Canon 5DIII and Canon 5DII, while also carrying around his PhaseOne IQ180. To showcase the extreme resolution of the latter, Joe decided to make a second film on this city he had fallen in love with, conveniently titled “10328×7760 – A 10K Timelapse Demo” (video and screenshots below).

Each shot in Joe’s second tribute to Rio is comprised of hundreds of individual still images, each weighing in at a whopping 80 megapixels, while each individual raw frame measures 10328×7760 pixels. Other than just demonstrating this extreme resolution, Joe also wanted to show “the amazing amount of flexibility this resolution allows for in post production. You can literally get about 8-10 solid 1920×1080 shots out of a single shot. You can also get about 5-6 solid 4K shots out of a single shot.”

Joe’s “shot 1”
The first image is the the full resolution footage scaled down to fit within a 1920×1080 resolution (14% scale). The next shot is the full resolution shot scaled to 50%. The last two are scaled to 100%.

Joe’s “shot 2”
The first image is the the full resolution footage scaled down to fit within a 1920×1080 resolution (14% scale). The next shot is the full resolution shot scaled to 50%. The last two are scaled to 100%.

Joe’s “shot 5”
The first image is the the full resolution footage scaled down to fit within a 1920×1080 resolution (14% scale). The next shot is the full resolution shot scaled to 50%. The last two are scaled to 100%.

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