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The Red was revolutionary because it was crazy cheap compared to film /stock/, let alone what a good film camera would cost you. Ten years ago, if you wanted to
by Sanddancer 11y ago
The Red was revolutionary because it was crazy cheap compared to film /stock/, let alone what a good film camera would cost you. Ten years ago, if you wanted to do filming, going the budget route for stock would cost you $13000+ for a 90 min film shot at 35mm, or $5600 for a 90 min film shot on 16mm [1]. The Ursa definitely looks like it's going to push the bar a bit lower, but at the same time, some of the higher end DSLRs are doing raw 4k at about the same price point as the Blackmagic, so I'd argue that the Ursa's more evolutionary than revolutionary.
[1] http://www.matthewwagenknecht.com/the-actual-costs-of-film/ http://www.matthewwagenknecht.com/the-actual-costs-of-film/
- bitL 11y agoWhich DSLRs can do 4k 4:4:4 RAW in $5k price range?
- anilgulecha 11y agoI think the parent meant something like the Canon 5Dm2/3 with magic lantern can provide RAW Full HD in a ~2-3000$ package, with a great range of glass and accessories. These provide footage pro-filmmakers did not have access a decade ago. The higher resolution thus evolutionary
- bitL 11y agoThere is a significant difference between recording RAW FHD and recording RAW DCI 4K/UHD - the latter requires over 1GB/s sustained recording device which is a major engineering challenge. Only nowadays with PCIe based SSDs we finally have technology for it (baring multiple RAID SSDs used in production cameras before PCIe SSDs). Technologically it is indeed revolutionary.
- dharma1 11y agoThis https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/gb/products/cinemacameras/techspecs/W-CIN-05 https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/gb/products/cinemacameras/t...
- bitL 11y agoRead the parent of my comment. You are doing recursion here ;-)
- dharma1 11y agoah, should have read them through :) Blackmagic is awesome, one of the few camera companies pushing the boundaries within price constraints. And I love watching interviews with the owner, Grant, he is super hands on, a model CEO. And they have regular firmware updates across all their cameras! I think they use FPGA's on their cameras in a way that allows them to share large parts of the firmware?