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Atomos announce they made an 8K sensor?
Actually I just found this recent piece. Seems more like Atomos are just in trouble... "McGechie claims Atomos knowingly shipped dud products (“for all intents and purposes, paper weights”) to meet sales forecasts, and that in late 2021 she p…

Comment by johnbrawley November 2022 permalink
Atomos announce they made an 8K sensor?
Thanks I hadn’t seen that. 8k@60 global is cool for sure. Their HDR modes sounds…interesting. 50% vertical resolution loss for HDR? Not sure how that would “look”. And that’s the thing..No images and it’s all speculation. I’m not sure Global is…

Comment by johnbrawley November 2022 permalink
Atomos announce they made an 8K sensor?
It makes business sense to develop into cameras for sure. Remember BMD already had the hyperdeck before they “added” a camera and monitor. I just am surprised they only went half way. Why just design a sensor and then announce that they’ve made it…

Comment by johnbrawley November 2022 permalink
Leica M11 Camera
The triple resolution is an interesting feature. Seems like the second camera after the 12K BMD camera to offer this multi resolution without cropping. I own several Leicas, mostly M's, and the price is still very eye watering. The extra reso…

Comment by johnbrawley January 2022 permalink
Olympus E-M1 III, breath of the dying beast
This is a great thing. One of the major holdbacks of Olympus cameras in video was their poor codec support. JB

Comment by johnbrawley September 2020 permalink
Olympus controlled demolition, follow topic to get realtime updates
I'm hearing of some good things still coming down the pipe. JB

Comment by johnbrawley September 2020 permalink
12K Ursa Mini Pro Camera by Blackmagic Design, Engineering Marvel
If you go to BMDs official forum their product managers for each specific product interact all the time with users. Tim Schuman is the Ursa Product manager. Kristian Lam is the Micro and Pocket product manager. Peter Chamerlin is the Resolve produ…

Comment by johnbrawley August 2020 permalink
12K Ursa Mini Pro Camera by Blackmagic Design, Engineering Marvel
@Vitaliy_Kiselev Like that other disruptive company that likes to trade in the same notions of being accessible and accountable to their customers ? I think many that have approached Grant in person at trade shows and find he's open and willi…

Comment by johnbrawley August 2020 permalink
RED Komodo - last attempt to save old developments
I think the promise of GS always is elusive, but it's always been a compromise with what else you horse trade in that sensor design. Now, maybe Komodo has solved some of those problems. Sony went AWAY from a GS with the Venice after introduci…

Comment by johnbrawley August 2020 permalink
12K Ursa Mini Pro Camera by Blackmagic Design, Engineering Marvel
It's funny people talk about how great the Z cam is, but I think that BMD kind of did it first with the MICRO. A camera I use a lot. My personal wish would be for them to update THAT camera, maybe go to a full MFT sized version of the 12K sen…

Comment by johnbrawley August 2020 permalink
12K Ursa Mini Pro Camera by Blackmagic Design, Engineering Marvel
I can say that the sensor can only work because of the Codec. They started the development of the sensor and codec together. That is a key part of making this work. And Blackmagic are in a unique position now. They design the sensor, they desi…

Comment by johnbrawley August 2020 permalink
12K Ursa Mini Pro Camera by Blackmagic Design, Engineering Marvel
@Vitaliy_Kiselev not sure if you noticed but he didn't even mention it in the launch. They don't want to talk about it. I can get away with it because I'm not BMD and only talking about what you can work out by looking at patents. …

Comment by johnbrawley August 2020 permalink
12K Ursa Mini Pro Camera by Blackmagic Design, Engineering Marvel
@RoadsidePicnic It's not just real 4K. That's a kind of misleading label. I get why you have that as a label, but the image is something altogether more than that. @endotoxic there's no such thing as 8K or 4K lenses. Resolutio…

Comment by johnbrawley August 2020 permalink
12K Ursa Mini Pro Camera by Blackmagic Design, Engineering Marvel
Here you go https://vimeo.com/436209544#comment_18426670

Comment by johnbrawley July 2020 permalink
Olympus controlled demolition, follow topic to get realtime updates
@Vitaliy_Kiselev That’s not the way I understand it. I work with two companies that work with Sony sensors. In both cases they have their own relationship that is fire walled. Their Sony contacts have no contact with the other parts of the senso…

Comment by johnbrawley December 2019 permalink
Olympus controlled demolition, follow topic to get realtime updates
@gaman Here you go https://www.panasonic.com/global/consumer/lumix/ambassadors/photo.html @Vitaliy_Kiselev Olympus have always sourced sensors from third parties. Kodak, Sony and Panasonic. And Sony semi will sell to anyone. Really as long as O…

Comment by johnbrawley December 2019 permalink
Olympus controlled demolition, follow topic to get realtime updates
I speak as an Olympus Visionary, so I’m also limited in what I can say. I am still very much active in my role as an Olympus Visionary. When I talk to the people I have long standing relationships within Olympus with, they see see L mount as an op…

Comment by johnbrawley December 2019 permalink
24p versus 30p
Maybe you forgot that MOST of the world is base 25FPS 50i for TV not 30FPS 60i ? It's only the US and Japan that are 30p/60i based. 30FPS is harder to shoot in 50Hz power environments because of lighting flicker. In the end, who cares really…

Comment by johnbrawley October 2019 permalink
Olympus E-M1 Mk II topic
Here's a video I did a while ago with the E-M1 MK2 and the PRO primes, shooting to the internal 4K codec. I left an ungraded window so you can see how it looks in the FLAT setting out of camera. (this evolves into the LOG 400) https://vimeo.c…

Comment by johnbrawley October 2019 permalink
RED surpassed Beats by Dr Dre margins record selling you just consumer SSD
My understanding was their was possibly an IP swap as part of the settlement. Sony had counter sued RED for patent infringement as well so maybe they never got as far as this appears to have gotten. Anyone know what the X-OCN codec is based on ? …

Comment by johnbrawley August 2019 permalink
RED surpassed Beats by Dr Dre margins record selling you just consumer SSD
For the Japanese makers, they need to either pay Apple for Prores or RED for a generic compressed raw, so in both cases they're paying. I think they've not done it because they haven't as yet seen it as necessary for the masses. And…

Comment by johnbrawley August 2019 permalink
RED surpassed Beats by Dr Dre margins record selling you just consumer SSD
It’s always been amazing to me that RED have these patents. Even the mighty RedCode, which I will concede happily is a great and flexible codec, seems to be really a variant of Cineform. If you look at the model of how RED works they tend to BUY t…

Comment by johnbrawley August 2019 permalink
BMPCC 6K S35 raw camera, war on Z-CAM
I doubt it. No camera has ever been E mount that isn’t built by Sony (not counting a useless dumb mount on kinefinity) RF is unlikely too. I suspect Canon have allowed it on komodo as an IP swap for Redcode. Mounts are a problem in this weird m…

Comment by johnbrawley August 2019 permalink
BlackMagic Resolve: Fight with pirates and beginning of a fall
Let's look at facts. Have they EVER charged for major updates since they reduced the cost of Resolve from $300 000 ? Since what..version 9 ? If you owned the full version of resolve sine then you've NEVER paid to have the most up to da…

Comment by johnbrawley December 2018 permalink
BlackMagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K
@NickBen "crowdfunded the camera with money up-front on preorder, yet unsurprisingly still couldn't even hit 2 shipping dates," No. They don't need the deposit money. They don't even get those deposits. Those are only …

Comment by johnbrawley October 2018 permalink
Leica S3 Camera
It's nearly identical to the previous iterations, the S2, the S006 (which I own) the S007 and it's very one of the most comfortable camera designs I've ever used. Specs wise it's not much of an improvement though, I think we wer…

Comment by johnbrawley October 2018 permalink
BlackMagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K
Right. But mostly all he did was attack me. And for what ? I’m really happy to have the debate. Like we are. What he did was write a blog post that attacked me and accused me of lying and trying to sell Blackmagic cameras. Forgive me but I do…

Comment by johnbrawley September 2018 permalink
BlackMagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K
But has Blackmagic actually done that ? So far I’m the only one they’ve used more than once. JB

Comment by johnbrawley September 2018 permalink
BlackMagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K
This makes no sense. There are restrictions on alcohol and tobacco advertising because they are proven to kill people. I’m truly failing to understand what the alternative is being proposed here. No one is allowed to promote their product unti…

Comment by johnbrawley September 2018 permalink
BlackMagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K
But... you get all of that once the camera ships don’t you ? I mean I can’t speak to shipping dates but it’s surely imminent and we’ve had two weeks of tests available ? I really don’t get WHY it’s a problem to have both ? We live in a capitalist …

Comment by johnbrawley September 2018 permalink

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