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RED have embroiled a lot of the camera industry in legal action over the years. One of these companies is Atomos. Since the Nikon buyout of RED, controversial ex-CEO of Atomos, Jeromy Young has returned to head the company. In a PR statement from Melbourne titled “Atomos Welcomes Nikon Acquisition of RED”, a lot of enthusiastic noises were made. Why?

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It is time for a good old fashioned EOSHD article. Everything you’ve seen so far on YouTube is meaningless – yes it is. Comparing one shot to another this way is no longer representative of the camera. Our camera’s capabilities far outstrips what you can see via YouTube. At best it’s a comparison of grading styles. Back in the days before LOG recording, your camera’s colour science was baked in…

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Comment on the forum Nikon is keeping the details of internal RAW recording close to its chest so far, I think partly because the firmware isn’t yet final and most of the RAW recording capabilities will be added later in a 2022 firmware update. However what we do know is that Nikon is licensing a RAW codec technology for the Z9 from “intoPIX”. Quite how they are manoeuvring around RED’s…

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Comment on the forum Nikon has seen huge financial losses this year, and it isn’t just the camera business that’s in trouble. Nikon’s other core business, semiconductor manufacturing equipment, supplies 70-90% of their chipmaking machines to Intel – but the US company’s investment in the machinery has run its course. To make matters worse, Nikon’s management baulked at investing large sums in next generation extreme ultraviolet lithography technology – a…

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Comment on the EOSHD Forum Rumours out of Apple WWDC 19 talk about both Canon and Nikon 8K cameras being used to shoot ProRes RAW 8K footage for Mac Pro demos. Footage from a documentary about Nikon ambassador Ami Vitale photographing Kenya was supposably shot in ProRes RAW 8K and the speculation was she shot with an as-yet unreleased Nikon Z9 with 8K output to an external recorder. Actually the…

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