Pyxis Feature Requests

This topic is intended to gather our discussions of requests for new or amended features specific to the Pyxis camera.

There’s one item to begin this thread that may be unique to my situation but perhaps there are others that would like to see it happen as well.

I’m leaning toward a purchase of the Tokina Cinema ATX 25-75mm parfocal zoom. This lens is described as a Super35 lens but it has an image circle of 36mm which is probably suited to an APS-H photo camera (image circle 34.4mm). So I want to be able to make use of that 25-75mm larger image circle.

The Pyxis supports a 6:5 window and if an aspect ratio of 16:9 is applied for monitor viewing guidelines in the Pyxis monitor, the image circle is 33mm, staying comfortably with the Tokina lens design. I’d very much consider shooting 6:5 with the Tokina spherical lens and 16:9 guidelines.

So far in the evolution of these resolutions that BMD intends for supporting anamorphic lenses, the anamorphic desqueeze factor is applied automatically to the monitor view. Great if you’re shooting with a true anamorphic: awkward but not impossible if you want to use a spherical lens.

My request is that BMD support the use of spherical lenses by offering a new monitor squeeze factor selection: None.

[Kristian Lam]

Hi Rick,

This has already been implemented. In the PYXIS release software , "Anamorphic 6:5" was renamed " 6:5" and the de-squeeze no longer applied to any recording formats.

Kristian, that’s brilliant and very good to hear. I look forward to shooting that 6:5 resolution with the Tokina 25-75mm zoom.

That lens will just partially vignette recording 6:5 4832x4032 with the spherical zoom. However I may also use the lens (with or without my SLR Magic 1.33x-65 Anamorphot) and crop slighting in post so that the useful resolution becomes a 4:3 resolution, 4832x3624 when I want to emulate 16mm footage or 6426x3624 with an 1.33x Anamorphic look.


That one camera shooting resolution also allows me to do vertical crops in post for 16:9, 1:85, 2.39:1. It allows me to crop for whatever look I chose to see using the appropriate Guidelines on the monitor when recording.

When shooting with my full frame primes, I’d still shoot open gate 3:2 6048x4032.

Edit
I see this feature was described in the September 12, 2024 user manual. D’oh! I confess I hadn’t read the manual.