Henchman wrote:
Why wouldn't Zcam want internal Braw?
I have already mentioned above, there are technical reasons it might not have happened. I don’t know specifically about ZCAM, but i do happen to know many of the BRAW and camera team at BMD.
I have been involved with the development of BRAW from before it was announced.
I know that two major brands much larger than ZCAM were exploring BRAW internally being added to their cameras. The main sticking point is that most HARDWARE development in cameras like this is based on ASIC.
BMD are unusually, FPGA based. Google the difference between ASIC and FPGA. They are very different ways of making hardware.
Think of it like this. BMD wrote BRAW for Mac. Someone wants to use it on a PC. Who pays to port it across to a PC? That development when it costs tens of thousands and many months of developer time.
So I ASSUME, like the other two major brands I mentioned, ZCAM don’t want to take the risk and pay for the development and porting of BRAW to ASIC even if the per unit licence cost is free, and BMD don’t see any value in using their own precious developer time to put BRAW into another camera.
JB