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I'd be interested in testing it. I currently have a Nubia Z60U which is capable of capturing 4k 60P RAW without any dropped frames using Motioncam. So, yes, this phone is a power horse! -
Now this is quite an update... Blackmagic Camera 10.2.2 brings PDAF, continuous autofocus, face and object detection to the Cinema Camera 6K, including adjustable AF transition speed and the ability to pause continuous AF by holding the focus button. But 10-minute pre-record is probably just as interesting (and maybe even more useful in the real world). Up to 10 minutes before you actually press REC... : -) Also added: • 4-channel audio recording • Blackmagic Cloud Streaming • AF mode shortcut assignment • selectable pre-record duration from 5 seconds up to 10 minutes What I find particularly interesting is what this does to the value proposition of the original BMCC 6K. Same hardware, but it is becoming a considerably more capable production camera than the one people originally reviewed. Blackmagic seem to be doing something quite clever here: features developed for PYXIS and their broader production ecosystem are progressively finding their way back into the Cinema Camera 6K. Firmware extending the useful life of hardware rather than giving us another body every year... I can live with that! ; ) EAG :- ) article BMD support page PS: And I even paid about half thanks to that promotional price mentioned on these same pages... remember? : P -
By Benjamin Hilton · Posted
Yeah the FX2 is a great camera. We've come to rely on the A7IV a lot because they are cheap, and just produce a darn good image in almost any situation. Now queue the FX2, basically just a better version of that. I'm probably going to buy a bunch of them here pretty soon for a new studio setup. -
In the longer term, I am also watching small LOFIC sensors, because for this kind of digital Normal 8mm camera the real limitation may be highlight latitude rather than resolution. A compact 1/2.8" or 1/3" RAW sensor with better single-exposure highlight handling could be very interesting. Another related experiment would be using spectral filters, possibly with a monochrome sensor, to approximate the response of color negative film layers — so the “film look” would start partly at the capture stage, not only later as a LUT in post. -
Thanks Clark, this is extremely useful. La Faux Bolex is exactly the kind of reference I was hoping to find. I had not looked seriously enough at the machine-vision / GigE route before. The idea of using an existing industrial camera with a proper C-mount is very appealing, especially if it avoids the nightmare of designing the sensor mount, power rails and MIPI/libcamera side from scratch. Your warning about lens-to-sensor distance is probably the most important part. I was tempted by the “bare phone sensor” experiment because damaged phones are now very cheap here in Poland — for example a Motorola Edge 50 Pro with a broken corner can be found for around 100$ — and the phone already gives you screen, battery, storage and potentially RAW video recording. But I agree that mechanically it could become a nightmare: flange distance, dust, IR filter, sensor cover glass, alignment and destroying the camera module. So maybe the phone route is only worth trying as a cheap destructive proof-of-concept to see whether the Pan-Cinor / Normal 8mm look is interesting enough digitally, not as the final camera architecture. The C-mount machine-vision route sounds more “correct” for a real build: industrial camera with known sensor position factory C-mount alignment DNG / raw frame recording Raspberry Pi / Compute Module control then adapt D-mount lenses mechanically My only concern is the D-mount to C-mount adapter. Since D-mount has a shorter flange distance than C-mount, the adapter needs to recess the D-mount lens enough to reach infinity. Have you tested whether the Fotodiox D-to-C adapter actually gives infinity focus with D-mount lenses, or is it more of a macro-only solution? For my project the ideal sensor size would be close to the Normal 8mm gate, around 4.5 × 3.3 mm or slightly larger. That is why I was looking at sensors like AR0234 or IMX900. But your point makes sense: a slightly larger industrial C-mount camera that already works may be much more practical than a theoretically perfect bare MIPI module with no adapter board and no driver. The pistol-grip form factor is also very close to what I have in mind — more like a digital Regular 8mm camera than a normal modern video camera. Thanks again. I’ll study La Faux Bolex more carefully.
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