High-speed cinematography has lived behind eye-watering price tags for decades. In our on-camera interview at IBC, Pixboom CTO Dr. Honghoa Huang explains how the Pixboom Spark aims to change that: a compact Super 35 global-shutter camera recording continuous RAW straight to SSD, with 4.6K open-gate capture and creator-friendly workflow. In our interview with Dr. Huang, he traces the Pixboom Spark back to his academic roots (check out last week’s original article on the specs here). A decade ago, he and colleagues built lab-grade, ultra-high-speed systems for science and industry. The question that followed was simple: why not build a smaller, easier, more affordable tool for content creators? That idea became Pixboom, and Spark is the first product the team is pushing into production. Unlike traditional high-speed rigs that loop into short RAM buffers, Spark is designed to behave like a “normal” cinema camera, rolling continuously to fast internal media and avoiding the stop-capture-dump cycle that slows sets down. Pixboom Spark – a promising new, affordable, high-speed camera with an admittedly beautiful product design that looks more like an Apple product than anything else. Image credit: Pixboom What Pixboom Spark is trying to solve High frame rates demand light, reliability, and repeatability. Dr. Huang stresses three core pillars from the outset: a back-side illuminated Super 35 global-shutter sensor for motion-artifact-free images and better sensitivity at high fps, continuous recording that streams directly to the SSD instead of a buffer, and open-gate flexibility so creators can choose aspect ratios or work with...
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