Posts Tagged ‘price’

Live coverage – Blackmagic Production Camera 4K and Pocket Cinema Camera

Monday, 08 April, 2013 16:59

Blackmagic have announced two ground-breakng cinema cameras at consumer price-points.

OVERVIEW OF THE CAMERAS IN THE ORIGINAL ARTICLE HERE

Here’s a closer view of the 4K sensor in the Blackmagic Production Camera. So there you have it – 4K for $4k.

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Phantom Flex 4K revealed – 1000fps at full resolution

Sunday, 07 April, 2013 21:58

Key info

4K at 1000fps, uncompressed raw and TBA ‘industry standard’ codec
$140,000 with 2TB CineMag
October delivery date

The record breaking (4K at 900fps) FT-One just got bettered by Vision Research who have unveiled their latest Flex high speed camera at NAB.

Delivery doesn’t start until October at the earliest as features are still being added throughout the Summer of 2013, but the prototype at NAB is able to record and function at a high level despite the early state of the firmware.

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Sony F35 reaches $12,000 on eBay from $250,000 in 2008

Tuesday, 29 January, 2013 21:54

View or buy the Sony F35 for $12,000 on eBay US (this version is enhanced by Clairmont camera in Hollywood)

A Hollywood workhorse to this day, the Sony CineAlta F35 (also rebadged as Panavision Genesis) is a Super 35mm PL mount digital cinema camera and also an extraordinarily good deal on the used market in 2013.

It has 14 stops of dynamic range and a global shutter. It has taken CMOS sensor in the F65 a full five years to surpass the CCD sensor in the F35 / Genesis, which was used to shoot Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland, Superman Returns and Apocalypto.

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IFA show report – Sony FS700 4K firmware due in a few weeks for same price as F3 S-LOG upgrade?

Tuesday, 04 September, 2012 21:16

Sony NXCAM FS700

Today I was at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin. Sony had the FS700 to play with. Asking about the 4K update – I was told that by Sony insider (not a sales rep) there are two external recorders already on the market that will work with the camera in 4K mode by Aja and Sony. Sony have no plans to restrict 4K output to their own external recorder(s), and that is the first bit of good news…

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Canon launch £4000 Cinema EOS C100

Wednesday, 29 August, 2012 11:15

Canon C100 Cinema EOS

UPDATE: CVP in the UK are taking pre-orders at just £4162+ VAT (£4999) which is much better than expected. The initial price quotes by sources was $8000. When the Adorama / B&H pre-orders start, will update the pricing info again

Canon today launched the much speculated Canon C100, the budget version of the C300. Initially set for a price under the Sony FS700 (around $8000), the camera is double the price of a used FS100 but features built-in ND filters and the same sensor as the C300. The design and handling looks fantastic, it is even smaller than the C300 (by some 15%) but the major compromise is the codec which is now AVCHD at 24Mbit 4-2-0.

However HDMI is uncompressed so for effectively another $300 you can record broadcast standard material to a Blackmagic HyperDeck Shuttle in ProRes.

I really like the C100 at first glance. But will it be enough to compete with the FS700?

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