Posts Tagged ‘cmos’

Could this be the perfect sensor for the Blackmagic Cinema Camera Mark II?

Tuesday, 20 November, 2012 23:11

UPDATE: pricing is under $1700 per sensor

The company resonsible for the full frame 35mm CMOS sensor in the new Leica M have made a Super 35mm video version of the technology.

Above is the CMV12000 scientific sensor by European company CMOSIS – it has amazing potential in a cinema camera.

Super 35mm / APS-C sized
4K raw at 12bit (90fps) and 10bit (150fps)
4:3 anamorphic 4,096 x 3,072
Global shutter

This part is ready to be mass produced and is available off the shelf.

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4K for $1k

Tuesday, 03 July, 2012 13:37

Flea 3 4K camera brain

Above: ‘Micro Epic’. The 4K Flea 3 brain with Sony sensor

Machine vision company Point Grey have been getting some attention for their new 4K camera which retails at just $945. For those who want to build their own cinema camera, this is a solution which provides both the ‘brain’ and software necessary to do so. The camera is also usable out of the box tethered to a PC, delivering 4K video via a 5Gbit USB 3.0 port which can then be recorded in 16bit raw format to an SSD.

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Panavision working with NASA on digital cinema camera technology?

Monday, 07 May, 2012 16:31

The JPL control room

Ground control to Major Tom – Today Panavision unveiled a new Dynamax sensor for the TV and scientific industries, which does 12bit 2K and 1080p with a global shutter. It turns out this sensor contains NASA developed technology from the US state funded Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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Blackmagic Cinema Camera’s sensor has global shutter, made by BAE Systems?

Monday, 23 April, 2012 11:49

BAE / Fairchild Imaging sCMOS

Made in California – there’s a sensor that perfectly matches the specification of the Blackmagic Cinema Camera on the market. It is called the BAE Systems sCMOS (designed by silicon valley semiconductors company Fairchild Imaging who were acquired by BAE in 2011).

It is capable of up to 100fps at 2.5K and features a global shutter, a sensor so powerful it is vacuum cooled.

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