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Every now and again I comment on the reduser forum, initally when I had the SI2K and more recently the "big" URSA. Sometimes I harmlessly stir a bit but by and large they have been a hospitable lot and have not reacted badly.
I stuck the post copied below, over there just now and it will be interesting to see if a pot of milk boils over or the discussion remains friendly and academic.
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ONE FOR THE RED TEAM ABOUT CINEMA DNG.
Apparently RED has patent protection over a compression scheme for Cinema DNG or something similar and got into a bit of a conflict over Cinema DNG with Blackmagic Design. Rather than get into a full-on stoush, BM dropped CDNG like a poisoned dog and went its own way with BRAW.
Assuming BM would play ball in re-enabling CDNG in firmware builds which probably it won't, what would be the chances of RED licencing a CDNG compression scheme to individual BM camera owners for a reasonable licence fee?
Just a thought, a bit of revenue for RED, better options for BM users. I'm okay of course. I have an older home-repaired pre-ban camera.
Stay safe everyone as best you can over there with this benighted coronial virus getting about. A few of us called it the Wuhan ill but I got told off a while back because China would get offended. It also made it sound like louping ill, a virus which bowls sheep over and us humans are not sheep ( although some calls us sheeple ).
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It would be nice to have the CDNG option back in the current and future generations of BM cams, that is assuming BM stays in the camera game now that other entities are in the same playground.
I might then be tempted to upgrade from the "big" URSA but not just yet.
Cheers all and hopefully dodge the disease long enough for the clinics to be get needle happy and vax you, or just us wrinklies and at risk folk if you prefer to dodge the dracula's daughters or sons running after you with so-called picks.
I stuck the post copied below, over there just now and it will be interesting to see if a pot of milk boils over or the discussion remains friendly and academic.
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ONE FOR THE RED TEAM ABOUT CINEMA DNG.
Apparently RED has patent protection over a compression scheme for Cinema DNG or something similar and got into a bit of a conflict over Cinema DNG with Blackmagic Design. Rather than get into a full-on stoush, BM dropped CDNG like a poisoned dog and went its own way with BRAW.
Assuming BM would play ball in re-enabling CDNG in firmware builds which probably it won't, what would be the chances of RED licencing a CDNG compression scheme to individual BM camera owners for a reasonable licence fee?
Just a thought, a bit of revenue for RED, better options for BM users. I'm okay of course. I have an older home-repaired pre-ban camera.
Stay safe everyone as best you can over there with this benighted coronial virus getting about. A few of us called it the Wuhan ill but I got told off a while back because China would get offended. It also made it sound like louping ill, a virus which bowls sheep over and us humans are not sheep ( although some calls us sheeple ).
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It would be nice to have the CDNG option back in the current and future generations of BM cams, that is assuming BM stays in the camera game now that other entities are in the same playground.
I might then be tempted to upgrade from the "big" URSA but not just yet.
Cheers all and hopefully dodge the disease long enough for the clinics to be get needle happy and vax you, or just us wrinklies and at risk folk if you prefer to dodge the dracula's daughters or sons running after you with so-called picks.