Administrators Andrew Reid Posted February 28, 2014 Administrators Share Posted February 28, 2014 Aimed at the broadcast market but just as well equipped for high end cinema, the VariCam 35's secret weapon is an efficient codec developed afresh - AVC Ultra 444 - and an industry standard Super 35mm sensor with PL mount.Read the full article here Julian 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julian Posted February 28, 2014 Share Posted February 28, 2014 The >Press Release states that you can either use the 4K S35mm head or a 2/3-inch recording unit for 2K/1080p at up to 240 fps. I think that's a pretty nice feature. That makes it both a broadcast and production camera. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oliver Daniel Posted February 28, 2014 Share Posted February 28, 2014 What a beast. I hope Panasonic are working on something between the GH4 and Varicam though! Likely? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schnorgie Posted February 28, 2014 Share Posted February 28, 2014 Looking forward to seeing something shot on your new Cookes.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AaronChicago Posted February 28, 2014 Share Posted February 28, 2014 No global shutter? Yawn. Just kidding of course. This thing looks amazing. Germy1979, maxotics and Orangenz 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Germy1979 Posted February 28, 2014 Share Posted February 28, 2014 I think it comes down to price really. This camera is spec'd like a Sony F in terms of what it's competing with. It depends on how much this will go for, because Canon and Sony already have this camera for over $20,000. I wouldn't depend on Canon to do anything other than the usual "throw us a bone." Julian 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael1 Posted February 28, 2014 Share Posted February 28, 2014 It's nice to see Panasonic come up with a new codec. The data rates on 4K are getting ridiculous. Think about 880 Kbps ProRes. That's 110 Megabytes PER SECOND! That's huge!I was doing a little reading about H.264 recently, and the new features support 444, 422, and 10 bit.Microsoft also added these codecs to Windows 8.1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damphousse Posted February 28, 2014 Share Posted February 28, 2014 Guaranteed to cost more than my car. This will have zero impact on any Canon camera I can afford. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TC Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 Looks awesome. I particularly like what looks to be the built-in 15mm rods along the side of the camera. Fantastic! Edit: actually looks like a separate unit, perhaps a custom cage made specifically for the camera. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Ma Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 In 10 years we will probably have this tech in the Panasonic GH14 for about $1500. I can wait. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobertoSF Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 Fascinating. Have you heard if it is switchable to 4:3? Still an anamorphic dog with a bone here! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tzedekh Posted March 1, 2014 Share Posted March 1, 2014 It's nice to see Panasonic come up with a new codec. The data rates on 4K are getting ridiculous. Think about 880 Kbps ProRes. That's 110 Megabytes PER SECOND! That's huge! I was doing a little reading about H.264 recently, and the new features support 444, 422, and 10 bit. Microsoft also added these codecs to Windows 8.1. AVC-Intra Class 4:4:4 supports up to 12 bits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kadajawi Posted March 2, 2014 Share Posted March 2, 2014 It's nice to see Panasonic come up with a new codec. The data rates on 4K are getting ridiculous. Think about 880 Kbps ProRes. That's 110 Megabytes PER SECOND! That's huge! I was doing a little reading about H.264 recently, and the new features support 444, 422, and 10 bit. Microsoft also added these codecs to Windows 8.1. There is no hardware decoding though. None at all, as far as I know. Even though 10 bit is widely used for the past 3 years there was no interest at all in implementing hardware decoding for it. Imagination Technologies (PowerVR) have finally implemented something last year, but I don't think there is a mobile chip that supports it. Let alone solutions for desktop computers. AMD _might_ be working on it. Which means all that 4K decoding will have to be done by the CPU, which will be busy enough anyway... Oh, and Premiere Pro CS6 seems to fail at 10 bit too. Btw., perhaps, well, hopefully what Panasonic does is use XAVC by Sony, which already has 10 and 12 bit support. I'd rather have camera makers agree on a common standard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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