Andrew Kolakowski wrote:If there is RAW output over HDMI then nothing stops BM adding support. It's purely up to BM ( I doubt Sony would ever try to make it difficult by not sharing needed details).
Camera manufacture role ends on supporting RAW signal over HDMI (+ sharing details about it). Rest is up to recorder manufactures. Atoms is adding support, so BM can do it as well (or anyone with other recorder).
Well, it’s not that simple.
Blackmagic RAW requires a “profile” to be created of the sensor and Sony might not be open to allowing that. They’ve had this MO for a long time...hello betamax.
Sony are traditionally very closed in sharing a lot of their IP and opening up to anything that doesn’t have a SONY badge. Notice there aren’t any E mount cameras made by anyone ?
Sony may have in mind to build their own recorder, naturally using Sony media.
They may not, but that’s their usual MO.
To “work” with Blackmagic RAW would require would require them to reveal more than they might be prepared to reveal at a sensor level. It don’t just “record” the hdmi signal.
I could imagine maybe ProRes RAW being the more likely container format, though in reality it’s probably going to be just be a high bit depth LOG output. And won’t really be RAW, unless Sony have designed it that way. And if they had, I’m guessing they would have said so....
JB