Sat Jan 18, 2020 3:17 am
Back to FF. Hopefully Fairchild now has access to technology from it's newer owners and can add features to reduce FPN and add lower light, and more dynamic range in a FF. Maybe that is why there has been a delay in offering a chip which substantially upgrades over the 4.6k after all these years?
What I find a shame, is that the new pocket didn't have such an upgraded Fairchild sensor. Immediately I was not in love with the color and handling of brightness. Sure the ultra low light is great, but realistically, how often do we need such low light. A little less low light and a lot more bread and butter performance would be great.
Mobile performance on those tiny pixels, show just how far you can push performance, and acts as a good moving image REALISTIC comparison to what we should expect at least in the future. The fact that somebody could use such things to make a cinema camera (multipoint post adjustment camera, or native) is another valid point, and that company could be BM in a Pocket Slim, like a more realistic version of the Light 16 camera, or future Nano series of POV cameras which could be used on set and for whatever other purposes they can be used for (like the RX0 does). All legitimate business aims, which reduce production costs by increasing volume m. In this way we can get FF and MF IMAX in a Pocket Slim or micro, and never have to use another lens. That's practical realistic future that you either get or get left behind with. It s no use picking on some deficiency which is either practically too minor or will be sorted out with proper sensor and camera development. A few tests on the wrong thing, doesn't prove what can be done on the right thing. I have realistic practical confidence in the companies to sort these things out. Red did a heap of patents on multipoint and phones advocated to them by certain person, historical documented fact, but never went back to the supportive source to sort it out (their bad). So, Red is aiming to do exactly what I'm talking about. I represent the future, not the past which will be practically unrealistic. Sure, I hope we still see conventional lensed cinema camera models for many, many years alongside the new technology, but the bread and butter, the base rock and concrete will be the new technology. A realistic way for companies to go broke, is not to prepare for newer more realistic technologies and get stuck when the competition comes out. Fortunately fur us, Red has too much of a matey culture. The person you are freindly with might not be the best most practical person for the job. Notice how many projects stalled. They even work, but never go anywhere. You need really shrewed people for that. They may not be your mate, nor the freindliest (as long as you get along), but they will get you to the next level, or two three four.. ten levels. When those people leave companies, they tend to go in crises and even collapse. They are the realistic, practical, bread and butter of business. The creatively shrewd the goose who laid the golden egg, historical. So, if you want FF or MF to be "practical" for filming you need multipoint or other wide 3D technique. If you don't believe me, go ask a portable IMax camera operator what he thinks about using it for everyday in the field ENG work, or better weddings, and see the look on his face. If you ask him about shooting a feature film with it portable and non portable, you might see a glint in his eye at the possibility, but that's not what people around here ussually are about (otherwise more big Ursa's would be sold) they require realistic portable convenience. Notice how many more pockets get sold. Imagine if they had a good quality version of FF or MF slim pocket camera to choose from. But here's the rub, the days technology is moving towards processing that can fit all post filming processes into an ultra thin pocket format (not the crap quality phone versions we have) low powered. I even know a company that could do something now, though not as low energy or low heat. They are contracted out to develop solutions with their technology. But at the moment, such ultragrade performance is probably going start in a much bigger enclosure at 8k. So, a mini or old original BM, or pocket 4k case might be a realistic first generation enclosure size unless you have specific ASIC for it, and Light spent tens of millions on theirs. Maybe they have pro versions? It is called business planning.
All related to FF topic and MF. But here's another rub. My strategy, if you can just record Pro level multipoint feeds and do the post image changes (focus, aperture, exposure, zoom etc) in post, then even a mobile phone sized device can do 8k now, all you have to do is process the setup frame to see what you are looking at, at the start of filming, and maybe every second more it about less, so during filming. During filming this would still require high peak processing loads for key preview frames, which circuites are good at. The circuitry can momentarily switch and focus on doing the preview key frame, heating up, then switch off, cooling down. However, a basic lower energy preview would still be good and may run all frames. Practically realistic design strategy, real practical advancing contribution, versus people dismissing, disrupting and trying to close down conversations. Do we want no better or realistically better?
So, all this stuff is practical, and something BM could start on. Business wise I was looking at doing many times more than this, which requires big investments. To do the centermeters big and half a centermeter or less thick multipoint cinema camera I was budgeting 100 million, due to the amount of new realistic technology to be developed in the design. That's more pie in the sky, so I don't worry about pushing. However recently I have come up with a new technology proposal that could do that cheaper. I also came up with a proposal to do a surround multipoint system using high resolution heads which require some new technology, but recording timed that can go into weeks. But, around here, I mainly just stick to what can practically be done by a company like BM. Once other companies start offering realistic multipoint systems into the market, then, realistically, any company that doesn't may suffer. That should not be too far off. You prepare years beforehand in business.
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