4 ms·

CinePI: A high-end film camera built on Raspberry Pi

29 points by inetsee 3y ago

rgovostes 3y ago
On GitHub: https://github.com/schoolpost/CinePI https://github.com/schoolpost/CinePI
MWil 3y ago
You can also grab a Canon EOS-M, from 10 years ago, and put Crop Mood (custom firmware) on it to record 14bit 2k/4k/5k RAW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCeKCfgRnO4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCeKCfgRnO4
StrictDabbler 3y ago
When I see something described as a "film camera" I infer that it uses film. This appears to be a "film-quality, cinematic camera" that does not use film. I had to read the whole article, carefully, to be certain that the project is purely digital. It looks digital, there's no obvious place to spool film, but phrases like "film is recorded RAW at extremely high quality" really muddy the waters. So for anybody who's wondering, this is a digital camera.
- fooker 3y ago
  Do you also investigate if save icons save to floppy disks?
  - StrictDabbler 3y ago
    If somebody made a post talking about a "home-made floppy disk" and I clicked on it only to discover it was a flash drive, I'd be a little annoyed, sure. If a post said "hobbyist makes a land-line phone using modern components" but it was actually a cell-phone case shaped like a Bell handset, again, annoying. The headline is actively misleading. That's all.
- pavlov 3y ago
  It seems to be a mistake by the editor. The creator of the device quoted in the article correctly calls it a cinema camera.
- Koshkin 3y ago
  I know, it's confusing, but "film" is also synonymous with "movie" (especially widely used as such outside the US).
btreecat 3y ago
>2K is basically 1080 p. It's not basically 1080p, it's literally 2x more pixels, which is important for cropping to 1080p in select zones, or emulating lense zoom, stabilization etc.
- tonyarkles 3y ago
  Heh, this is where video format naming is stupid. 1080p = 1920x1080. 2K = 2048x1080. 2K and 1080p are practically the same. 4K = 3840 x 2160, which ends up being 4x the total number of pixels as 2K/1080p.
- pavlov 3y ago
  At the same aspect ratio, 2K is 2048*1152 which is only 13.8% more pixels than 1080p.

29 points by inetsee 3y ago

On GitHub: https://github.com/schoolpost/CinePI https://github.com/schoolpost/CinePI

MWil 3y ago

You can also grab a Canon EOS-M, from 10 years ago, and put Crop Mood (custom firmware) on it to record 14bit 2k/4k/5k RAW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCeKCfgRnO4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCeKCfgRnO4

StrictDabbler 3y ago

When I see something described as a "film camera" I infer that it uses film. This appears to be a "film-quality, cinematic camera" that does not use film. I had to read the whole article, carefully, to be certain that the project is purely digital. It looks digital, there's no obvious place to spool film, but phrases like "film is recorded RAW at extremely high quality" really muddy the waters. So for anybody who's wondering, this is a digital camera.

fooker 3y ago
Do you also investigate if save icons save to floppy disks?
- StrictDabbler 3y ago
  If somebody made a post talking about a "home-made floppy disk" and I clicked on it only to discover it was a flash drive, I'd be a little annoyed, sure. If a post said "hobbyist makes a land-line phone using modern components" but it was actually a cell-phone case shaped like a Bell handset, again, annoying. The headline is actively misleading. That's all.
pavlov 3y ago
It seems to be a mistake by the editor. The creator of the device quoted in the article correctly calls it a cinema camera.
Koshkin 3y ago
I know, it's confusing, but "film" is also synonymous with "movie" (especially widely used as such outside the US).

btreecat 3y ago

>2K is basically 1080 p. It's not basically 1080p, it's literally 2x more pixels, which is important for cropping to 1080p in select zones, or emulating lense zoom, stabilization etc.

tonyarkles 3y ago
Heh, this is where video format naming is stupid. 1080p = 1920x1080. 2K = 2048x1080. 2K and 1080p are practically the same. 4K = 3840 x 2160, which ends up being 4x the total number of pixels as 2K/1080p.
pavlov 3y ago
At the same aspect ratio, 2K is 2048*1152 which is only 13.8% more pixels than 1080p.