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The future is probably a thin small mobile like camera rather than POV cameras. Even Red is going Mobile but honestly, most mobiles are far to unreliable with not the best performing mobile sensors, and some you can't even put a card into, let alone 1 terabyte in future.
Now, a phone is a phone, even if a great camera, it is prone to getting damaged in use. How would you feel if you only had one lens on your main camera and it got scratched (maybe after the phone rang and you lost balance and dropped it). So, a phone is still a phone, and a camera a camera, apart from turning the phone and data off, just the doubling handling could lead to more damage. The Red product undubtedly will break the mobile mild and do great filming, but to get the best results requires the multipoint camera module, which on top of the nearly $1200US-$1600US phone could be rather costly. However, using mobile parts could a multipoint thin camera could be.dine cheaper. The multipoint allows you to emulate a larger lens in suitable light, inside a thin tiny camera, suitable for drone, action, pov work.
The issue BM has had before is use of FPGA. Red also used this strategy on its way to Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC's) which are custom chips many times more efficient than FPGA's. There is only one FPGA technology I know of that came anywhere close to ASIC's, and that was snapped up by the military. The next FPGA technology, magnetic FPGA,, can
overcome the issues, whenever it finally gets here. FPGA's are slower and uses many times more energy, going to heat. But in previous generations a customisable FPGA was more convenient to get performance from than a normal microprocessor based system, but I now believe that has changed.
Nvidia has made great strides in low energy integrated processor General Purpose GPU chips. There next Xavier chip series is one of the most complex CPU's ever made, but uses very low power. There is normally a mobile version. It should be capable of handling 8k and multiple camera vision for multipoint cameras. The previouse boards for multicamera AI drone use were credit card sized. An entire processing platform for a new camera. Because these parts are bulk made to sell to a number of manufacturers they gain lower cost, like mobile hardware. So, a multipoint camera phone might be less than $1000 Australian, for something that could displace low end cameras for professional use. The Ambarella ASIC chipset technology could make a even lower cost multipoint camera than this, but tends to be set up with lower specs than what we would like.
Sometime back I suggested the Video Assist could be made to have full camera control and GUI system (like a large Pocket Camera) to use any of the BM POV cameras, or competitors. But I also suggested that the Video Assist (or in this case, Video Director) could have 2 or more mobile like sensors to film computational 3D photography like video). 4-5 sensors is preferable, and they can be put on IMax an larger Medium format spacing to emulate that format). The Light 16 camera is an example of this. While the best mobile sensors, like used in the LG and Google Pixel cameras would be good, they are not necessary. However, if we look above we see the Nvidia product allows for another way to make the Video Assist with full Linux computer programmability. Now, video assist could be made into a tablet format with multipoint camera system.
Going a step further, a credit card sized thin camera can be made, that attaches into a video assist tablet case. The case merely presenting interfaces, battery, storage, display and controls. The credit card like thin camera could even record itself on a drone, or in your hands.
Now, a phone is a phone, even if a great camera, it is prone to getting damaged in use. How would you feel if you only had one lens on your main camera and it got scratched (maybe after the phone rang and you lost balance and dropped it). So, a phone is still a phone, and a camera a camera, apart from turning the phone and data off, just the doubling handling could lead to more damage. The Red product undubtedly will break the mobile mild and do great filming, but to get the best results requires the multipoint camera module, which on top of the nearly $1200US-$1600US phone could be rather costly. However, using mobile parts could a multipoint thin camera could be.dine cheaper. The multipoint allows you to emulate a larger lens in suitable light, inside a thin tiny camera, suitable for drone, action, pov work.
The issue BM has had before is use of FPGA. Red also used this strategy on its way to Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC's) which are custom chips many times more efficient than FPGA's. There is only one FPGA technology I know of that came anywhere close to ASIC's, and that was snapped up by the military. The next FPGA technology, magnetic FPGA,, can
overcome the issues, whenever it finally gets here. FPGA's are slower and uses many times more energy, going to heat. But in previous generations a customisable FPGA was more convenient to get performance from than a normal microprocessor based system, but I now believe that has changed.
Nvidia has made great strides in low energy integrated processor General Purpose GPU chips. There next Xavier chip series is one of the most complex CPU's ever made, but uses very low power. There is normally a mobile version. It should be capable of handling 8k and multiple camera vision for multipoint cameras. The previouse boards for multicamera AI drone use were credit card sized. An entire processing platform for a new camera. Because these parts are bulk made to sell to a number of manufacturers they gain lower cost, like mobile hardware. So, a multipoint camera phone might be less than $1000 Australian, for something that could displace low end cameras for professional use. The Ambarella ASIC chipset technology could make a even lower cost multipoint camera than this, but tends to be set up with lower specs than what we would like.
Sometime back I suggested the Video Assist could be made to have full camera control and GUI system (like a large Pocket Camera) to use any of the BM POV cameras, or competitors. But I also suggested that the Video Assist (or in this case, Video Director) could have 2 or more mobile like sensors to film computational 3D photography like video). 4-5 sensors is preferable, and they can be put on IMax an larger Medium format spacing to emulate that format). The Light 16 camera is an example of this. While the best mobile sensors, like used in the LG and Google Pixel cameras would be good, they are not necessary. However, if we look above we see the Nvidia product allows for another way to make the Video Assist with full Linux computer programmability. Now, video assist could be made into a tablet format with multipoint camera system.
Going a step further, a credit card sized thin camera can be made, that attaches into a video assist tablet case. The case merely presenting interfaces, battery, storage, display and controls. The credit card like thin camera could even record itself on a drone, or in your hands.
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cOften people deceive themselves so much they do not understand, even when the truth is explained to them
bTruthful side topics in-line with or related to, the discussion accepted
cOften people deceive themselves so much they do not understand, even when the truth is explained to them