Kays Alatrakchi wrote:
It's a dumb waste of pixels...don't believe me? Ask ARRI...hands down still the best digital image in the biz...no oversampling required.
Not exactly.
The original sensor design is old.
It was designed for an era when cinema delivery was 2K DCI / 1920.
If you look at the specs of the original Arri sensor it’s over sampled for that delivery.
They have unusually large photosites, combined with dual gain architecture, something no one else is doing and it HURT them because of the 4K native requirements of some streamers. You can’t physically make a 4K sensor in S35 if the pixels are that large. They sort of got around this by sticking them together to make an LF (two sensors) or the Alexa 65 (three sensors) but the fact is, in S35 you can’t make a 4K sensor with this design without making the pixels smaller.
The NEW Arri s35 camera is going on more than 2 YEARS late.
This was not because of Covid. The talk is that it’s because they can’t make a better sensor than what they already have. They are still having troubles getting it to work as expected. Everyone is naturally going to compare it to what it’s replacing. Might look embarrassing if it’s not fundamentally better.
I’m sure this camera will eventually drop, but I bet it’s more of a small improvement / not much improvement compared to the original which is now over 10 years old and probably a 15 year old design, only now “in 4K”.
JB