Blackmagic pocket cam 4K has smoked this.

Well, you can go buy a GH5s right now and have an excellent camera that you can use.

This camera seems to exist right now as a spec sheet and a prototype which has made a couple of short videos near the Z-Cam office. I don't think they've announced general availability yet and when they do, there is no guarantee that they will hit their shipping date. Even after the camera ships, if the initial firmware is as bad as the Z-Cam E1, you will be plagued with problems until they release an update that fixes major issues (based on E1 history, this could be between 6 and 18 months).

So... if you need a two-camera setup in the next 6-12 months, you might very well be better off with a GH5s... or really, any other camera that actually exists in the real world. :)

When asked about crop factor, the Z-Cam guy said "You can refer to GH5s"

Also, this:

We use Sony latest M43 sensor with BSI technology embedded and it's video oriented sensor. I think this sensor can compete any APSC sensor even some full frame sensors. We have E2 equipped with the most advanced ISP for color and noise reduction. To be honest, the image quality will surprise you.

So it seems like MAR is a real possibility.

E2 - USA Trade War Special Price: $33,880 USD *Not inclusive of any import tariff and local taxes : Tariff: add $10,000 USD

Extra battery : $5000 USD

E2 - All other countries: $1999.00 USD !!! :)

hahahaha! Funny.

But also a little too close to the truth perhaps....

Global Shutter/Rolling Shutter. We will have a global shutter version shortly to help those who need Globla shutter in their application. Global shutter will have less dynamic range but sometimes it's needed. Then we make one.

Interesting. Many have promised to implement global shutter but no one seems to have done it well yet (aside from a few rare exceptions such as F55 or Digital Bolex).

@Vitaliy_Kiselev Agreed... It looks like they are trying to please all (annoying) camera nerds out there (myself included).

I hope they show us a very customizable menu at NAB. Until now i can't figure out the target customer for that camera and if they are capable to deliver something like that. It's all about specs...

From the same facebook group as the above:

E2 is a new type of camera which not only has nearly all the essential features a traditional professional cameras have, but also has a lot of new features to embrace the quickly evolving new technology:

1. E2 has HDMI and SDI adapter but E2 is emphasising the ethernet port. Dispite of the latency entroduced by encoding an decoding, IP based network will bring in a lot of benefits. For example: If you need to deploy several cameras or even install several cameras somewhere a switch with several ethernet cable simply solves the problem. Previously because of 8bit encoding professionals complain about the quality loss and here E2 comes with 10bit HEVC encoding which can deliver broadcast level image quality. Z CAM will provide free software to do multiple camera control and live switch for live streaming to FB/YT or other rtsp servers.

2. E2 has no display in body because of size but it can direct connect your iPhone/iPad to preview and do setttings. UI can be more convenient and you don't need to carry another screen any more if you are doing some mobile tasks. You can leverige your smartphone's 4G network to do live stream. One button, easy!

3. E2 has a very powerful Deep Learning engine which supports caffe. Z CAM will open the compiling environment to public to download their own applications. Combining with Z CAM's mature SDK, you can create a lot of interesting applicatons. We are going to show the capability of this part soon.

4. E2 has various input/output ports to control different devices which finally aims to be automatic simple task control. For example, controlling gimbal remotely or automatically.

5. Customizable LUT table and curve in camera. We can enable user to create different kinds of color tweaks to replace our original one. Your camera, your taste.

6. Multiple camera sync. This what we are good at. We may enable a more friendly API layer in the future to make people control several cameras in a easier way.

7. Global Shutter/Rolling Shutter. We will have a global shutter version shortly to help those who need Globla shutter in their application. Global shutter will have less dynamic range but sometimes it's needed. Then we make one.

8. It has very powerful CPU and GPU so we have a lot of heavy but state of art algorithms to be added into the camera step by step. Dual Arm A73 and Dual A53 inside. One of the most powerful mobile GPU inside as well.

@samuelcabral

Many things I do not get. It seems like they also had been lost trying to please too many different people.

I much more prefer in small camera ability to have best possible codec but with option for low bitrates.

@ntsan

I added all specs to top post.

Overall it is another special premium camera, very far from E1.

From Z cam official group on Fb.

Zlog for E2, sample test footages(E2+Panasonic 14mm F2.5): Original: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1p_xRkIx_48kOYbmjZUUcdiGduvhiLmoq

Only Preset LUT applied: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ILgpcDvHsrJdcyNorh4H8e1btknaKlIW

Some details: Automatic mode(AE/AWB), and grading with simple pre-calibrated LUT.

E2 - USA Trade War Special Price: $33,880 USD *Not inclusive of any import tariff and local taxes : Tariff: add $10,000 USD

Extra battery : $5000 USD

E2 - All other countries: $1999.00 USD !!! :)

I hope it has a 2K crop so we can use S16 glass!

https://www.facebook.com/groups/cmountm43/

Yes, price is strange.