New cinema camera...?

[kye]

9 hours ago, Emanuel said:

Slowmo modes are actually OOAK for this price range — 9600 pictures in 10 seconds burst of 1080p is something indeed: more than 6 minutes and a half going with 24p, oh well...

To this day, it’s still the fastest camera sale I’ve ever made, though. Just look at the number of subscribers on their official YouTube channel. These are numbers and facts.

Getting good affordable 960p would be cool for lots of people.  I see the science explainer channels showing bad quality 960p and the richer channels with Chronos setups.

Don't get me wrong about them not being cameras that appeal to a large number of people.  They're very good for getting the new "EVERYTHING IS AWESOME AND WIDE AND SMOOTH AND DEFINITELY SHARP SHARP SHARP!!!!" style of video that looks more like video than anything ever made before, but as soon as they say it's a cinema camera, there are 27 things they have to change from every other model ever made, and to bet they'll get every single one of them right is a very long shot indeed.

[eatstoomuchjam]

On the other hand, looks like Insta360 are leaking images of their own MFT camera...  all speculation at this point, but it could also be a viable entry in the "small modern MFT camera" category.  

https://www.43rumors.com/the-mft-revolution-is-here-first-leaked-images-of-the-insta360-mft-camera/

[Emanuel]

All hail Chinese camera menus! : ) A bit hard to beat Blackmagic anyway...

[newfoundmass]

I mean, the lens mount makes it very adaptable, but not having auto focus seems like a big deal breaker.

[Emanuel]

Remember what kye wrote about ;- )

[eatstoomuchjam]

The Verge posted a 95% useless hands on video where they just kind of show the camera hardware and show it powered on (but with none of their own video), but near the end, they finally get to one of the things I was most interested in - there is indeed an HDMI port (micro HDMI (🤮), but it's better than nothing).  Assuming that the latency is decent, maybe this really could be the Super 16 pocket camera that I've been waiting for!

 

 

[Clark Nikolai]

Seems impressive. Checking out their press release there's some great stuff. It says raw photo saving but only a mention of high bitrate video, not what codec it uses.

Lots to love with this one.

https://gopro.com/en/us/news/gopro-announces-three-cameras-mission-1-2026

 

[eatstoomuchjam]

I'd expect 10-bit H.265/HEVC.  ProRes isn't impossible, but I'd still think of it as a long shot.  I wouldn't place any bets on any form of raw video.

But for this form factor and anything that I'd use it for, 10-bit H.265 would be absolutely fine.

For me, the two use cases would be a pocketable 16mm-like camera with C mount and D mount lenses - and a super telephoto camera to pair up with an EF mount adapter.  With a 2.7-3x crop factor (smaller than normal 1" sensor), the EF 100-400 turns into a like a 280-1120.  Will the center of the image circle be sharp enough to resolve a full 8K?  Don't care, if it makes a half decent 4K, that'll be plenty.

[eatstoomuchjam]

On 4/14/2026 at 11:56 AM, eatstoomuchjam said:

if Mission 1 Pro ILS is <$700, I might take a flyer on it. 

Nice try, GoPro, but $699.99 is not as "less than $700" as I meant.  So it is in "I'm gonna wait for this to be in the hands of real people" and not "Why the heck not put in a preorder?" territory.

 

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1964095-REG/gopro_mission_1_pro_ils.html