Sun Apr 29, 2018 2:52 pm
Frankly, without still features its much less desirable. Why not have a step record, touch button save a frame marked still. Touch a button during record flag the frame as desirable for stills. Get resolve to track down these frame "points" so you can extract frames around it as stills. Hold button for bursts. See, its not too difficult. If people want the camera to setup their stills for them, they might have to wait. I'm happy to have simple focus and a focus control/ring. I think others using this can get by too.
This camera is a bit on the low end for me. I'd rather buy a better camera, but nothing is available. Plus zcam didn't do it's $699 4k c1r raw cinema camera, or a 4kp50 version of their old 4kp30 $599 non raw version. I want more than 12 bits for 12 bit hdr delivery, best HDMI or TB, and WiFi, twin TB or USB, and more dynamic range. 120fps 4k, and half the size. This is like the camera I really wanted 4-6 years ago (remember the original 4k cinema camera which didn't do 4kp50). 4.5k+ plus too. I upgrade what spec I'm looking for as time goes by. Most of the above is there for practical reasons. Dual usb3 allows you to stripe for higher data rates, hit swap between drives, run something off the second port. TB also allows higher speed off camera recording and to replace the HDMI and long haul optical cabling on set. More dynamic range and bits allow you to do more, and 4kp120 allows you to do slow motion, and setup for 3D. 4.5k+ allows you to mitigate some aliasing and moire issues.
I actually was watching some news footage tonight from a camera without low pass filter. Horrible crawling backgrounds. I don't want to see that again. This camera means I might have to drop resolution to get rid of it, or buy a low pass filter. There is hundreds of dollars extra and deciding when to swap it in or out.
If Sigma doesn't introduce a x3 camera, I might not have choices. Zcam really needs to drop their e2 price in half, but they have other richer markets in mind. Just the inclusion of the Nvidia intelligent vision AI is enough to get the camera used in intelligent vision development circles. That could be thousands to tens of thousands of sales. On the factory floor too, even in science. The sort of thing I suggested BM could have done, could have radically shifted costs and lowered heat build up at higher frame and data rates, programmed in high quality raw (and if a sigma chip 4:4:4 native).
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Wayne Steven on Sun Apr 29, 2018 3:08 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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