youlikeny wrote:Just my 2 cents... I’ve been in this business for the past 15 years and throughout the years we went from being overly excited about shooting Once upon a time in Mexico, Star Wars Revenge of the Sith, Dogman, etc on a 2/3” sensor and 4:4:4 codec to shooting music videos or weddings on MFT or Super35 in 4K raw and complaining about the differences between raw formats while films like Moonlight are shot on Prores...
Unless you are doing plates and VFXs for a big Hollywood production (for which you wouldn’t use a Pocket4K anyway) can I politely ask what kind of projects “require” CDNG and would not accept Braw?
I appreciate the honest question. It's the ability to edit the footage as you see fit. Have you used CinemaDNG? It's actually a series of truly RAW images. It would be like saying nikon isn't supporting .nef anymore, just JPG. Your fine editing in JPG right? Technically you can increase the exposure, and change the temp. So your good!
The ability to take footage that might be way blown out, in some areas, or have too many shadows and lift those, or restore detail to highlights. in addition to my personal favorite "Red Green Blue, Primary adjustments, through adobe camera raw. This is impossible with BRAW. The footage falls apart just like it does in prores. Not to mention and camera that should produce such a small amount of noise, has way too much noise now. They can't call that RAW. It's not raw. They should have called it BMPro. They should update BRAW to be a MUCH higher bitrate and include basic, truly BASIC raw adjustments like highlights, shadows but by actually editing a raw image. Meaning, BRAW should be 500mb/s (as an option) and take a series of raw stills, just like cinemaDNG that are compiled into a single container. I'm sure Nikon would love to break into the cinema industry, a series of .nef stills packaged in a single file as .BRAW would be AMAZING.
Lastly, I just see no hope of every getting a suitable upgrade from BMD. I feel they've sold out and are now simply in the Sony business model. "You want an upgrade"? Buy the A7MIIIII. I knew there was something too good to be true about a raw camera for $1,300.
Please don't take any of my response as meant to be rude. I feel we've all reached a boiling point.