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The standard playback for video is 29.7fps, so why would you want to shoot at 60fps? Essentially, because it gives you more flexibility. Footage captured at 60fps gives you smoother playback at 29.7/30fps, and it also gives you the option to produce slow-motion footage. At 60fps, it’s only half speed, but the slow-motion effects you can produce are still quite cool! If you try slowing down your 4K video shot at 30fps, you’ll notice that it looks less fluid, kind of staccato – to borrow a musical term – whereas slowed-down footage captured at 60fps has more frames and looks smoother. Think of it this way: if you record 1 second of 4K video at 60fps, you are capturing double the number of frames you would capture at 30fps. So when you slow your 4K 60fps video down to half speed, that 1 second stretches out to 2 seconds.Why shoot...

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