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I've been looking at cheap, low-end movie cameras recently like the Blackmagic Pockets, Sigma FP etc. I'm sure this is a naive question but I've been wondering
by Joeboy 4y ago
I've been looking at cheap, low-end movie cameras recently like the Blackmagic Pockets, Sigma FP etc. I'm sure this is a naive question but I've been wondering why I can't buy a good sensor module, attach it to a Raspberry Pi or similar, put it in a nice case with an SSD and a lens mount etc and call it a movie camera. I guess that's kind of what Apertus are trying to do with the Axiom, but they still don't seem to have shipped anything real after quite a lot of years.
The low end of professional-ish cameras is great in lots of ways, but they all have annoying trade-offs. To be fair I'm sure any janky POS I built would too.
- wmf 4y agoIn general, modular products are always going to cost more and tend to lag in features/quality. It's easy to get stuck in a death spiral of worse product -> low volume -> very high price due to no economy of scale -> low volume.