2022 is just getting started, yet it’s still time to look back at the camera innovations of the year 2021. Cameras have become tremendously better last year, but in terms of real innovation, two products stood out for us. These are the CineD Best Camera Innovation Awards 2021. Camera tech has evolved like crazy … To me, the camera industry has always been a strange one … on one hand, there has been an incredible amount of technology innovation going on within those devices over the years: Even mirrorless cameras now offer super-high resolutions (now we have 8K full-frame mirrorless cameras, who would have thought …), autofocus that actually works well for video (something I wouldn’t have believed only a few years ago), internal RAW recording (and of course 10-bit 4:2:2 internal, which is more practical for my line of work of doc filmmaking, is something that was completely unthinkable before), IBIS, and much much more … … yet cameras haven’t really changed On the other hand, the cameras look more or less the same they did 15 years ago. Yes, in the compact form factor of mirrorless cameras we lost the mirror of the DSLRs, but then manufacturers seem to be trying hard to make those camera bodies larger again (Canon R3, Nikon Z 9 …), so they end up having the same size as before. In general, not much about the basic principle of those cameras – also the larger, “professional-line” video cameras – has changed. You still need...
Published By: CineD - Sunday, 2 January, 2022