What yall think about this new Cinema Camera?

[Alt Shoo]

 

[eatstoomuchjam]

What to think about it?  It's a lot of beauty shots of a boxy camera with a lot of buttons, and apparently has some menus - from a company who made a Micro 4/3 cinema camera that I thought nobody bought, but judging by B&H having a used one for sale, I was wrong at least once.

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1733741-REG/bosma_dc0201_g1_pro_camera.html

But $3,500 for a Micro 4/3 camera with poor dynamic range from a mostly-unknown manufacturer was always going to be a hard sell - especially with the Komodo now costing $500 less brand new.

This new camera is up against some really tough competition from other vendors, both new and used.  It will need to have features a lot better than the others or have "good enough" features and compete a lot harder on price than the G1 did. 

[KnightsFan]

After reading the newsshooter article, I think the Vega h2 is a really cool camera with lots of neat features, but I'm definitely skeptical about the sensor and color and stuff.

[MrSMW]

I’m waiting for retired Gerald’s review before commenting.

[Alt Shoo]

I’m surprised no one reputable in the YouTube space has really talked about this outside of News Shooter. When you look at what Bosma is offering with the Vega H2, especially the specs and features, it’s pretty significant. It even has an OLPF.

What’s interesting is that even though it’s clearly designed for solo shooters, it feels like it’s being overlooked in favor of something like the Vista, which to me is a pretty uninteresting camera. It doesn’t even have autofocus. To me, the Vista falls short mainly because it’s missing key features like autofocus and doesn’t feel as dialed in for real world flexible, solo workflows. The Vega H2, on the other hand, comes across more like a complete, modern system that actually supports real production needs. Seriously, go to News Shooter’s site and read the specs. It’s a highly production ready camera.

Anyway to me, the GoPro Mission ILS and the Bosma Vega H2 are the real standouts at NAB. 

[KnightsFan]

Agreed, I can't believe no one is talking about the only(?) camera to have native autofocus with manual/PL lenses. I guess we're too busy talking about YouTubers here these days.

To me, the Vega H2 checks every feature box, so I'm excited to see if the image is usable. Too bad Blackmagic can't make a Pyxis 12k with that form factor, that would really be and endgame camera. The main issue with Bosma is that I won't consider any cameras that don't shoot log formats that are supported by Resolve's color management, which I somewhat doubt will happen.

I'm not interested in GoPro, but the other standout of NAB is the RodeLink II, which checks every lav box for me. If they come out with an plug on XLR transmitter with simultaneous record/transmit and phantom power, it'll be the last audio recorder I ever buy.