JulioD

CP16. Cinema Products brand…who were also making this new gadget called a Steadicam that’s about to be 50 years old. It was a common news film camera. They also had mag film where the sound was recorded directly onto a mag stripe on the film itself. It wasn’t as good as the open reel recorder of course. I used one on my first short movie. It feels very cheap and lightweight but it was a staple.

I’m talking about to offload. a CFe card would go into a USB-C reader right? not the card. Not in the camera. In the reader.

I think it can also offload over wifi. More useful if not needing to be hard connected. I suspect the slower speed wouldn’t be noticed much either. I think they’re planning. Magazine with dual CFe cards aren’t they? 10Ge surely is faster than a CFe card over usb-c ? most dits have ssd local raids in my experience.

Yeah that's my understanding too, with the ethernet connection. Why else do a 10G on the camera I guess?

Well I’m assuming a DIT on a three camera shoot will appreciate it. pretty sure they are doing a CFe dual card magazine too.

Ahh but good for offload speeds right?

But they’ve never ever supported it? It’s not like they stopped supporting it. They never have and now they’re saying they aren’t working on it?

They have a corrosive culture that comes from him as a founder. Having him return after doing some token penalty time is farcical. What has changed since he left? Nothing. Meanwhile their stock is still not trading because of serious (criminal?) accounting issues where they lied about sales volumes. The whistleblower was fired for raising it and that case is still going. They are awful

It’s just not how it works. Sony semi sells and DESIGNS sensors. They don’t hold back tech from any customer who is willing to pay. They also do business with Sony direct competitors. They all co-operate a lot more than us consumers realise Think of them as a seperate company to Sony cameras.

PDAF isn’t owned by Sony. Dual gain sensors are on some canon cameras and some Blackmagic sensors too. https://www.canon-europe.com/pro/stories/dgo-sensor-explained/

At least all the armchair camera engineers go quiet for a while

Yes you can by doing a minor tweak and then applying for a new patent. Pharma companies do this all the time just changing the delivery method for the same drug. I don’t agree with the practice, but it’s naive to think this patent runs out when the new one RED just posted sounds awfully similar. “A 2018 study by Robin Feldman, a professor at the University of California Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, found that 78 percent of new drug patents between 2005 and 2015 were for existing drugs.” https://undark.org/2021/06/16/how-patent-extensions-keep-some-drug-costs-high/

RED extended the patent. This is a common technique used by pharma companies to extend the IP protection. https://ymcinema.com/2022/12/01/red-digital-cinema-filed-another-patent-related-to-compressed-raw/

Ooohhhh remember when RED did this?? https://www.engadget.com/2018-02-13-foxconn-red-8k-cameras.html and it turned out to be…nothing? This whole synergy making things better cheaper is just corporate BS

No way is Nikon making a Burano type camera. Nothing will change at either company. A few years from now RED fold from stagnation or gets bought back by the owners and re-launches.