Mon Nov 05, 2018 5:08 pm
Having been using a Hydrogen One for the past week, and showing it to several people, the response has been VERY different. The standard 2D image quality is good straight out of the camera, the hologram view gets most people who see it giddy with excitement (there is a caveat -- it's pretty disorienting if you view it from outside the optimal viewing angle, which in hologram mode is pretty narrow), and more professional oriented features are coming soon to Red's camera app.
And... a LOT of people who have Hydrogen Ones aren't Red camera owners. Not everyone is happy with them, but most are.
And most of the reviews so far are based on early alpha and beta firmware, focus on the specs (Snapdragon 835 instead of 845) rather than on actual usage (the primary improvement in the 845 was in power efficiency and graphics, but Unreal based games look great and are buttery smooth on it)...
One bozo actually though it was going to be a holograph projector like in Star Wars... even though it was obvious to everyone who was paying attention that was not the case... Seriously, that's like criticizing the Pocket 4K for not being an 8K camera, the complaining that it "only" has 13 stops of dynamic range but not bothering to shoot anything with it, yet criticizing the image quality.
And this is what passes for reviewers these days?
That said, the H4V stuff, as cool as it is, isn't all that useful right now, because it requires a Leia-equipped device to view it, and there's only one of those available... and it's expensive and rare, and doesn't photograph all that well, since the 3D effect requires stereo vision to work.
I don't know whether or not it works with VR goggles. If so, it would at least expand the potential viewership to include people with VR googles. If not, it's chicken and egg time...
Rakesh Malik
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