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Digital Bolex raw camera, no longer made
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  • vicharrisvicharris

    Yes. Overpriced. Anyone can get a BMCC for at most, $1500 today. So tell me why this camera is worth $2000 more? It does have a hand crank :)

  • SangyeSangye

    Overpriced? Seriously? This is an incredible value. I personally prefer the Blackmagic aesthetic, but if I were doing strictly narrative work I'd be very very tempted.

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    You have always disliked the D16, and I was hoping you could explain why. I am sure you have sound reasons and I would love to learn them.

    LOL. Get to the start to the topic. Read it carefully.

    And understand that you see horrible project done wrong from the start, that is in deep minuses already (hence second (!) attempt to start selling thing that backers still not get yet).

  • philiplipetzphiliplipetz

    @VK You have always disliked the D16, and I was hoping you could explain why. I am sure you have sound reasons and I would love to learn them. This is not trolling but a sincere attempt to gain the benefit of your experience.

  • vicharrisvicharris

    This thing is still way overpriced. I guess they're stuck with fixed costs and overblown budgets to change anything.

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    ok, it takes CF cards in addition to the internal hard drive, so that's not as bad as I thought.

    It is not that bad, but it is not good either. As CF are here for a reason - slow speed.

    And here that in case of any issue with SSD your camera is toast.

  • JuMoJuMo

    Wait, does this camera have ONBOARD memory? Or am I misinterpreting?

    If I'm not, what happens when you fill up and are still on set - stop everything and make the entire cast and crew wait while you offload the data?

    Edit: ok, it takes CF cards in addition to the internal hard drive, so that's not as bad as I thought.

  • DrDaveDrDave

    I want one. But I will wait.

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    We’re pleased to announce that the Digital Bolex D16 will begin shipping to backers starting this week. If you are a backer, we will contact you shortly to verify your shipping addresses and contact details, so please make sure that emails from digitalbolex.com will clear your spam filter.

    For those of you who are not backers but are interested in purchasing a camera, we are also announcing our first official pre-sale for the next 500 cameras! This pre-sale will open on December 16th at 10am EST through our website with a retail price of $3,299 for a 256 GB camera, and $3,499 for the 512 GB camera.

    Huh. It is interesting that will come first, new sale or first actual camera received.

  • duffleduffle

    @eatstoomuchjam - thank you! I obviously didn't read the first few pages of the thread very carefully. :)

  • eatstoomuchjameatstoomuchjam

    They shot the original on a prosilica gx2300.

  • duffleduffle

    This is really becoming a saga... but (and I can't seem to find it in the thread so far) what the hell camera did they actually shoot their original movie on? Does that thing even exist now?

  • Joshua_CadmiumJoshua_Cadmium

    Yeah, it wasn't available when I checked it out last night.

  • jpbturbojpbturbo

    I think it was a 1080p upload, vimeo just took forever to make it available.

  • Joshua_CadmiumJoshua_Cadmium

    Yeah, what looks like the low CRI lighting they're using (LED + Fluorescent) is really not helping the image out (plus Vimeo compression, plus non 1080p upload), although I think this test was mainly for the audio capabilities of the cam.

  • DrDaveDrDave

    The other thing I find strange is that the clips appear to have been done with different cameras.

  • RamboRambo

    Couple of iPhones on a tripod would give this "test" a run for its money, seems they are reluctant to push the "capabilities" of this camera, either that or don't know how to use it yet.

  • DrDaveDrDave

    It would be funny if they were using like a TM700 to make these videos. Not saying they are, just saying it would be funny.

  • vicharrisvicharris

    Pocket Cam blows it out of the water in terms of the feel from the image. Looks horrible to me. Hopefully it's the atrocious lighting they had going on there.

  • eatstoomuchjameatstoomuchjam

    Those are some tricky lighting conditions. Good thing they had raw... and their use of a CCD helped prevent a lot of the jello that they'd otherwise get in that static shot with almost no movement! What an impressive display of their camera's abilities!

  • htinlahtinla

    @vicharris HA! My wife shares your disdain of hipsters just as much.

  • vicharrisvicharris

    My first thought.

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  • kellar42kellar42

    The musician is almost more hipster than the camera.

  • rockroadpixrockroadpix

    I can't believe that I made it a minute in before I hit mute. The vimeo compression is not helping matters as far as image, is concerned. I hope it's vimeo...

  • jpbturbojpbturbo

    Magenta!

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