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Digital Bolex raw camera, no longer made
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  • diggerdigger

    @tfinn and don't forget his floating the idea of doing another camera if the price is right

    do you think they themselves made any dough out of it? I didn't know anything about his personal history with Polite in Public

  • tfinntfinn

    "I doubt that this guys are pure scam. They just use simple approach - get the money and try to find someone who can make it in time."

    This was VK in 2012...pretty much nailed it. Now the narrative this article is pushing is: tortured genius doing all the work, hateful bloggers, and the "price of success".

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    @digger

    To know real story you need to ask this guy who registered domains and was big part or owner of companies used.

  • diggerdigger

    @eatsoomuchjam I noticed that too. Very weird. There was this editor's note: "The team behind the Digital Bolex was bigger than just Joe Rubinstein. Some members of the team have contacted ShareGrid disputing Joe's version of the story. The following is strictly the story as Joe tells it, not a definitive history of the company." And someone called them on Elle being omitted in the comments. I wonder what the full story is. Seems like journalistic malfeasance to let someone get away with lying

  • eatstoomuchjameatstoomuchjam

    Wow. In that entire article, they never mentioned Elle Schneider even once. That seems pretty shameful.

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    In one case I know the guy who created the hack for the GH2 or the GH3 [Vitaly Kiselev], he really hated us. He called us criminals and said that somebody should call the cops on us.

    LOL. Just LOL.

    As all messages are here still it is easy to check that all my words turned to be true, they started with company who failed their previous projects, and where unable to do this camera. Only after different people come and with big delays they managed to make it work. Still design was questionable, very costly and complex.

    And, of course, it is investor to blame for all. In fact this hippie guys must build big monument to honor them. If not their stupidity whole story never existed.

  • diggerdigger

    @vitaliy_kiselev gets a shout out in this interview with the maker of the Digital Bolex: " A lot of the people who were angry at us for making the camera, were never going to be customers. It wasn’t like a customer who really cared… In one case I know the guy who created the hack for the GH2 or the GH3 [Vitaly Kiselev], he really hated us. He called us criminals and said that somebody should call the cops on us." http://blog.sharegrid.com/blog/inside-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-digital-bolex

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

  • MikeLinnMikeLinn

  • darklightdarklight

    What did you think did them in? The price, the form factor of the camera or what? I understand the camera produces some lovely images.

  • johncaballerojohncaballero

    Super 16 emulation was a losing proposition from the beginning. No surprise here.

  • AlbertZAlbertZ

    very sorry for that...digital bolex was the last CCD camera in the market...

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    Unfortunate outcome. Digital Bolex guys never become proper capitalist businessmen.

  • eyeBOXeyeBOX

    Anyone who’s started a small business can tell you that it’s not easy, especially in tech; even the most viable and promising product can be held back by the discontinuation of a part, a materials shortage, or rising cost to manufacture when facilities close or require large minimum orders to continue production

    http://www.digitalbolex.com/thank-you/

  • AlbertZAlbertZ

    thank you very much for your effort, @eddieb! great work!

  • eddiebeddieb

    We released firmware 1.5 "Elf" last week. It improves the HDMI output making it easier to record high quality images on external recorders like the BM Video Assist and Ninja Flame. Others have used it with the Odyssey 7Q and PIX-E5.

    We've added raw false color clipping indicators, improved signal to noise ratio at ISO 400 and 800 without the need for noise reduction, and we've added multiple color space options in camera. One of those being the new Bolex Log color space.

  • majoraxismajoraxis

    there is an immediacy to this camera that is impossible for me to ignore. Immediately, I am no longer thinking about the camera and just watching the film. Things like the color and motion cadence just look right to me, so they don't draw attention and they do not interfere with the story telling.

  • AlbertZAlbertZ

  • AlbertZAlbertZ

    Very good stills from Noam Kroll's film shot on digital bolex http://noamkroll.com/some-digital-bolex-d16-screengrabs-from-my-upcoming-short-film/

  • ttancredittancredi

    Anyone knows if there is a plan, or if it would be to dificult, to add prores? Can't afford to have a cam that only shoots raw.. The image is, for me, on a different league

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

  • MikeLinnMikeLinn

  • lunalobo75lunalobo75

    This was shot by Andrew Molle with the newest firmware at ISO 800:

    from a few weeks back:

  • TrackZillasTrackZillas

    @lunalobo75 WOW WOW WOW!!!! This has to be the most Filmic, or Film like image I've seen yet out of any Digital Cinema Camera I'm talking about Alexa, RED, Sony ect... The color rendition are soo balanced and pure, the motion cadence, the skintones, dynamic range I was doubting this camera at first.. Thanks for posting this video I'm keeping my eyes on this camera matter of fact I'm going to buy one. This camera, with the 5D Mark III RAW is a very attractive combo. Even with all the buzz about 4K.. 4K.. & now 8K.. the 2k - 1080p resolution will do for me :) Here is a music video that was shot with film, actually I like the Digital Bolex D16

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