Csaba Nagy wrote:If Blackmagic could simply flip a switch on their firmware to enable FPS of your choice, that's all I ask for.
You think that this will somehow get around the technical limitations of the hardware that several people have pointed out?
Let me do the the rest. Let me figure out how I or if I even want to use it. Let me solve/create my own cooling method if that's an issue. etc..
So now all you have to do is upgrade the cooling and <poof> the bandwidth doubles? Fat chance.
You see I'm no professional. There are 2 target groups that I see with the BMCC:
Obviously.
1. The Professionals who can buy up and have the greater resources to do their work. They can afford the new line of camera's each an any year they want.
The professionals hopefully also know what apostrophes are for.
I'm part of that low end, I don't do large work. I'm more of a "Hobbyist" if you will. I like to shoot my own personal stuff for fun and for educational gain.
I suppose that explains the armchair architect syndrome.
I would prefer to be given the freedom to push my gear to its max potential. I'm also a "tinkerer, I like to customize, change, modify my gear to fit my needs.
If the BMD doesn't want to do the work, let someone else do it. ( Hackers like the people who work on Magic Lantern. ) Bring some open-source firmware of some kind, to let us do what we will.
Open source isn't a fix-everything sort of solution. Do yo somehow think that someone could with a simple firmware tweak upgrade the camera's buses, buffers, and processors?
I really don't see the loss in Open-source firmware. The only reason I could see BMD hold back on the idea, is simply the fact that they realize their current camera's can do more. Which would be totally contradicting what everyone on this forum says about the BMCC, and how its already being pushed to its limit.
You can't even figure out what an apostrophe is for, yet you think you know more about what the camera can do than the people who designed it?
The way I see it, If the camera is doing all it can. What the loss that could occur in Open-source firmware. We would all just realize, " Hey, never-mind,..that's all I can do with this camera." ( which is not to say that I am more than overwhelmed in the images/capabilities it can do already. )
The loss is in support. It wouldn't be in any way feasible for BMD to stand behind their cameras if they officially supported open source firmware. If someone hacks it, they lose their warranty coverage, so BMD would not have any obligation to support the inevitable legion of bugs that the hackers would introduce into the camera, which is entirely appropriate.
We'll stop bugging BMD. End of story.
No, you won't. You'd just complain to BMD about the legion of bugs the hackers introduce into the camera, as if it's somehow their fault that the hackers are clods, which most of them are. Take a look at
http://thedailywtf.com/ if you want to get a sense for what BMD would be setting itself up for.