THE EARLY BEGINNINGS OF AFFORDABLE DIGITAL CINEMA

Time has flown and in such a seemingly short period, since filmic digital cinema became a reality. The evolution grew out of frustration with the apparent if not actual habit of the near-cartel of big manufacturers of lower cost video camera-recorders to hold back developments.

In 2004, an enterprising individual started a thread on dvinfo.net and proposed the conversion of a Krasnogorsk K3 16mm film camera body into a video-camera head and mini-computer recorder.

Out of this initiative there eventually grew the Silicon Imaging SI-1920, SI-2K, the RED One and its subsequent descendants. In the fullness of time, the Blackmagic digital cinema camera-recorder systems arrived. It took a while for the big triumverate in Japan to catch up but catch up they did.

Here is where it all started :-

http://www.dvinfo.net/forum/alternative ... oject.html

What an interesting thread. Thanks for posting.

Yes, yes it is, I knew the SI-1920 and SI-2K were one of the first Digital Cine csmeras, didn’t know how they came about. Thanks Wayne.
Cheers