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If you were using a camera like this for stills then you would probably be shooting in RAW. The color will be what you make it.

It is the thermal efficiency of the processor that is the issue. Remember that this camera has to deal with a 20.1 megapixel frame, unlike the 15.1 megapixel frame that the mark III used. Next week's announcement will likely be the new RX100

It will never the less incorporate modes designed for other purposes. They do not completely reinvent the wheel every time they come up with a new die.

The camera does feature some improvements over the mark III. The viewfinder is higher resolution than those previously found on Sony cameras. The IV has ~160 more PDAF points than the III, so it will start to approach a9 tracking capabilities (not quite there yet). For video the oversampling uses a 2.4x base data set, whereas on the III it was 1.8x. That should improve the quality of what is being shot, both in terms of resolution and color accuracy.

Those are sensors produced for off the shelf applications. Probably most are going into scientific and instrument products. None of those products would involve making video in the sense most people here know it. In order to access those modes you need processors and related ICUs capable of handling the data. That is usually the bottleneck. 4K60p will require a next generation processor. Until they get the thermal efficiency good enough, you will not see that mode. The overheating comes from the processor, not the sensor. Having an APS-C sensor will not change that basic fact.

Nvidia did not lose the case. The cards did in fact contain 4GB of RAM, it just was not all of the same type. Their position is in fact correct, the problem was people who bought the product did not understand what the terms used meant. The issue for Nvidia was that they were involved in a lawsuit where they were in the right, but was brought by people who did not understand the technology and would be judged by people who did not understand the technology either. For them it was a no win situation, so they settled to cut their losses and move on. A lot of these class action suits end up this way, it is a kind of legal extortion. Usually the claims have no merit, but the risk and cost to the company involved is too great so they settle. In the end that cost is passed on to the consumer though, so we all end up paying for a few people's greed and ignorance.

They would not have spent the money designing the drives themselves, but rather on designing the system as it relates to the drives. And yes, millions is not an unreasonable number for something like that. That is the cost of a team of 7-8 engineers for a year. Easy enough to test, just switch their SSD for a regular one and see if it works. If RED are using custom firmware, it would fall under copywrite protection, so they would be well within their rights to sue you if you copied the firmware to a new SSD.

The basic problem is that people are sueing or threatening to sue because they are ignorant about the technology involved and the terms used.

I don't think you would be able to get away with something as vague as that. Usually these sorts of things involve an algorithm or process. A lot of issued patents are not actually valid, but the problem is that in order to invalidate it you need to go to court, and that is expensive. For smaller companies it is not worth the hassle, and they will usually avoid using the technology even though they know that the patent would likely be ruled invalid if it was contested. As far as I can tell, Red's patents require a compression ratio of at least 6:1. If your ratio is less than that then they can pound dirt.

Those are standard off the shelf sensors with fixed specifications. Custom made sensors have specs that are set by the client. Those sensors are different, although they may use common die elements. But perhaps you know more about that than Sony Semicon does. It will still be some years before 8K panels hit the mainstream of sales (and I am not talking about low end panels here....720p is NOT mainstream). Right now 8K is only at the very high end of the market. It will take a few years for before it is commonplace in the middle range of the market, where the bulk of sales are made. For now there is no real reason for the A7SIII to shoot 8K. By the time 8K becomes standard in the mid tier we will be at the A7SIV. It is more likely that the new camera will use high frame rates and/or a global sensor, and that is what is causing the delay. The delay is probably not be due to the sensor itself, but rather getting the new processor ready.

Then it is not the same sensor is it. The IMX series are the off the shelf sensors sold by Sony. They do not include the modifications that exclusive clients might use in their designs. The general fabrication might be similar, but they are not the same sensors.

RX100V has 315 phase detect points. Can't be the same sensor in that case. I am not sure why someone would want the Canon when the RX100VA/VI appear to be better cameras. Plus, there should be a RX100VII arriving soon, which presumably will be a step up from the older models.

Apple knows what is best for you. More so than you yourself. Jobs was quite clear on that point.

A 27" screen is a 27" screen, irrespective of the resolution. If you want text to be a certain size, just adjust the scaling. 200% text on a 4K screen is exactly the same size as 100% text on a 1080p panel of the same dimensions. The only difference is the 4K panel will be sharper and less pixelated. Images themselves will be smaller since the resolution is higher, but you can change the preview size in Premier. 100% is not going to fit in the preview screen no matter what panel you have (unless you are shooting SD or something like that).

I have a 27" 4K monitor on my second computer, it scales fine.

Gear doesn't matter because you were basically using two cameras, lol.

You have a thing against trees?

Cats. That is the secret. But, if you don't have a cat, there are other things that will get views: Box openings/reviews (even if you don't actually own the item, just comment on it - like why you are preordering, then cancelling your preorder, then considering repreordering, that sort of nonsense). It can be virtually anything, preferably something a lot of people are likely to consider buying. And you need to be doing it constantly, but choose a general theme of products, not random stuff or you will not establish regulars. Have an over the top personality. The topic under discussion in the video can be anything, the point is to bombard the viewer with babble. Preferably offensive (people love that), but not so much so that you might get banned/carted off to jail or anything like that. Remember, people will be coming to your channel to watch YOU, so you better make sure that you are entertaining in your own right. Cute girls in bikinis, or guys in whatever apparel that gets the ladies going. Sex sells, if you present that you will probably get tons of views. Weave that into whatever other type of video you are making if in any way possible. Travel experiences. Preferably to unusual or exotic locations. People will look these sorts of videos up when they are planning or thinking about vacations. Again, having an over the top personality/bikinis etc adds to this if you want views. Be excited (and preferably youthful). How to videos. This can be as simple as the proper way to hammer a nail into a piece of wood. People are always looking for tutorials on how to handle simple tasks that they have not done before.

Unless your pockets are rather larger than most people, things like the M50 and Z6 are NOT pocket cameras. Your best bet is something like a RX100 V or VI. It will actually fit it your pocket and records decent video.

I know the Chinese companies don't bother, because there are no consequences for them. IP protection in China is very lax. That is the problem a lot of high tech companies have with that country. If Sony holds a method patent for communication between a lens and a camera (any lens and any camera, as long as it uses that protocol), any sort of reverse engineering involving that protocol is an infringement. Any court in a jurisdiction that enforces patent rights would rule it as an infringement if a complaint is made. Metabones operates out of first world countries and obviously have obtained a license. Otherwise they would not be able to do what they do. They would be shut down if they did not. Camera companies will do this to increase the lens ecosystem for their cameras, so you will see limited licenses being issued in some cases. They will be a lot more reluctant to increase the lens ecosystem for their competitors cameras however, or allow random manufacturers with unknown quality control access to their systems electronics. Canon EF is an old protocol dating back to 1987, any patents that were protecting it that would have long expired by now, which is why everyone uses it. That would not be the case with E-mounts, or any of the new mirrorless lens systems. Anyone who wants to make lenses based on them will require a licence from the camera manufacturer. This is why you will often find manual lenses for various mounts from low end lens manufacturers - they don't have licences, but they can still make the bayonet mount, just as long as it does not use the communication protocol. They could of course just ignore the patents (as these guys appear to be doing), especially if they are based in a jurisdiction that does not enforce IP ownership.

Even if the seller is Amazon, it is risky. You have no idea where they are sourcing their stuff from. They might be getting it from the manufacturer, or maybe they are getting it from someone else.

The communication protocols themselves will be proprietary. Sony will have a method patent covering that. Unless for some reason their R&D department were incompetent and did not bother to protect the basic operation of their equipment. They would not file patents like that to make money, rather it would be to discourage third parties from sticking random things onto their equipment which might result in service calls because the electronics were not quite right. They would have license agreements with Sony to do that. It would have been in Sony's interests to have some partners in order to increase lens options for their products, not to mention the small royalty stream it would generate. Those extra lens options help them sell cameras, which is where they make most of their money.

It is made in China, where enforcement of IP is lax or non-existent. The adaptor is a pretty clear infringement on Sony's IP. May be a different story in other countries though, unless it gets slipped in through backdoors.

You can buy most of the bits readily, the biggest time sink from development point of view would be the software, depending on how you implemented it. Even with the camera acting as a simple data collector I would guess that some sort of calibration would still be needed so that you knew what that data accurately represented.

With fibre optics they claim the computer can be up to 300m away. All you would need is a cable running to your computer.