So, the following sensor from 2013 does 14 stop 14mp 80fps, 1.1gp/s at 1.1watts. So, it is nonsense all this anti-hype.
It has a newer type of the production mini's sensor. There is also a slightly older small sensor that does 18mp at 24fps. In 2008 or so, there was a small sensor in a casino camera that did 9.1mp at 60fps.
These common sorts of numbers that ambarella cheap chips ingress (but often don't compress at) ate used for down scaling and auto focus etc. But you somehow find a certain manufacturer does not have these rates in many of their small cheap sensors. It is about market control, and you guys are the ones being controlled.
http://cinescopophilia.com/aptina-14mp- ... -at-1080p/But the 14 stops is not exactly usable due to how the bit depth and modes are divided up according to a discussion I have read.
I will have to get around to digging up some ambarella documents to show how completely rediculous all this not faster cheaper anti-hype is. These chips ingress raw real cheap, and low power, macroscopic, and the bigger ones compress 8k video in around 1 watt. To game it to 8kp60 high quality for TV feild production (600-1200mb/s h264) might require significantly more.
https://www.ambarella.com/news/91/122/A ... ng-CamerasAppears that the information on Ambarella is harder to find in detail these days. However, this chip announced 2 years ago is doing 4kp60 in "under 2 watts". But it doesn't tell you what codec or at what data rate. However, this chip can do likeable numbers, but I don't know if that is what is included in that claim, enough to do 8k. The chip will do 4kp120 compression, which is equivalent to 8kp30. The previouse version would do 4kp60, equivalent to 8kp15 (like the GoPro 4kp15). There might have been a previous chip, I think, with similar capability. I unfortunately couldn't find figures for last year's official 8k chip. So, my figures would be off for 8k anyway. I know the encrease on encode watts would not be linear for 8k with the same datarate per unit of pixels. The rest of the chip's non compression parts takes up some, plus there are advancements and differences from any different chip process. So, 8 watts might be a better figure at quality. This with a good sensor is still not a high figure. But, looking at 4kp60 in the older chip, we are talking about upto 3.1 watts plus for compression and sensor. Currently the chip is in use. Looking at the lower power version of the older chip, it does 4k in 1 watt (but what does that mean concerning datarate etc)? BM could have done the best dash cam/Drone/action cam/camcorder/production camera head at a cheap price with these combinations. Raw Bayer, is not needed for video production. Raw 4:2:2 is. However, raw Bayer is probably doable, especially with a recorder. We are talking $500AU into all these markets by the hundreds of thousands. Certainly, news divisions could buy carton loads just to stick them in odd places. When the first Sony hdv prosumer camcorder turned up, they arrived by the truck full at one American network.
You are needlessly trying to dissuade people from the truth.
I'm sitting for real steel here.