steven abrams

14 hours ago, newfoundmass said:

Probably cost. The specs explain the $10k price tag, but it also probably covers the increase in sensor costs since the camera itself isn't wildly different than previous URSA cameras, using most of the same tech. 

Apparently the internals are all new as well, which to run 12K at 60fps makes sense. That's waaaaay more data than the previous ursa camera.

16 hours ago, PannySVHS said:

I watched the video where you talke to that BM representative politely and he was very grumpy. 

What video is that? That would be interesting to watch!

15 hours ago, androidlad said:

BMD patent document on the URSA 12K sensor design:

https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/88/08/39/428dbbc9e5dfca/US20190306472A1.pdf

 

Actual CFA pattern:

 

In the document, it specifically discusses colour-aware pixel-binning to increase sensitivity and double framerate, at the expense of lower resolutions. So the "oversampling" mentioned in marketing is without doubt BS, at least for full FOV framerates higher than 60fps.

Because if it oversamples from full 12K, then the oversampled modes cannot exceed 60fps which is the full readout max fps.

Maybe there's a feature similar to R5's "4K HQ" mode.

The cfa you show is figure 5, but the patent says the cfa 'invention' is figure 6 (a different one). Others have been posting figure 6 as well, I think you're wrong here about the cfa.