New Footage:

I'm having a hard time understanding why they are releasing some of these clips.

They made two very costly raw cameras, each for about $130000, and if I remember correctly some things work in one camera and others in another. You also wanted to show something is you drained 260k down the tubes.

@rockroadpix Yep, I'm sure I'll be slammed as well as all my videos on Vimeo by their minions. Honestly that video looks like it could be shot with anything. There's so much crap thrown on the top. I'm amazed that's what they are putting up. IMO, it looks like they are hiding faults with all the grain, soft focus and shit thrown on top. But what do I know.

P.S. Are you stalking me on Vimeo? :) I might be an asshole but there's one thing you can say about me is that I don't hide who I am online!! ;)

http://www.digitalbolex.com/guest-post-kurt-lancaster/

finalized sound boards just came in last week so I haven’t gotten a unit with working sound yet, but hopefully very soon

LOL

@trevmar

What you mean? I think it is all shot in manual. And except for installing certain sensor they have nothing to do with "motion blur" here.

@Vitaliy Yes, I was not clear with my chalk-and-cheese analogy. I was trying to say that I am seeing a lot of video these days which has discrete, jerky, frames, and that at least the Digital Bolex was giving smooth motion. That was a pleasant thing to see. The DB was certainly not stabilized, nor on tripod or steadicam, and I was impressed by the photographer's ability to hold a shot. And frame the shot, for that matter. I did examine a few of the frames to verify the amount of motion blur in the video, and it appeared to be about 50%, not 100%. But this is hard to estimate accurately...

Oh I get it now. Shoot 75% of your footage out of focus and tell everyone that's what you meant to do and it's art. Dammit, I have it all wrong!

They could :-) But it is no longer funny.

Why is their lighting so always so bad?

The specular highlights look really odd to me. Whenever something is blown out it just seems to have a really fried kind of look.

The break dancing video isn't so bad but all the stuff with studio lights looks really off to me.

Smear in highlights. Typical in ccd sensors

I don't see much to complain about in the most recent vid.. clear images.. decent DR in the the blow-out bits.. there seems to be some aliasing around the highlights in the hair, but I can't be certain as the video runs like garbage on this computer here. Looks comparable to the ikonoskop, I guess. I'll need to see some comparison vids using other cameras to get a better idea of the rendition.. as it stands the price is way too high for my liking

We’re planning to freeze the firmware development in the next couple of weeks, and while we start to assemble boards in Toronto next week, we’ll be sending our mechanical designer and one of our founders, Stelio, to China to oversee our next batch of parts.

While there were vast improvements with this new generation of parts, there were a few problems here and there. Luckily the problems are with smaller parts, and don’t affect the functionality, but we want to get everything right on a cosmetic level for our first 100 cameras. There will be a slight delay to produce a new batch, but the good news is, it is a short delay and we are confident we can deliver cameras in the coming weeks.

High tech shit (c) :-)