Nikon D800E video samples show stunning resolution in 1080p

Nikon D800E video samples show stunning resolution in 1080p
Monday, 07 May, 2012 20:10

If you are waiting for the out of stock Nikon D800 – it seems your wait might have to go on for a while yet – since the D800E might be the one to get.

The lack of anti-aliasing filter does not seem to make moire and aliasing in video mode any worse. There’s nothing very noticeable here in this video despite all the fine detail like hair, bricks and fabrics. Rather, it has a positive affect and fine detail really pops.

I wasn’t expecting fine detail to be this clean on the E… Removing the anti-aliasing filter seemed like a recipe for disaster. But this footage is very encouraging. When you also bear in mind this is compressed footage from in-camera, rather than via the Atomos Ninja, it truly seems like a very nice result from the rare ‘E’ version.

I recommend clicking the link below to Vimeo and downloading the full 1920x1080p file.

Mosaic Engineering are working on an anti-aliasing filter for the D800, so if you do need to add one later to your ‘E’ that will be available before long (the prototypes are already in the wild).

I’ve been busy the past couple of weeks so haven’t had chance to test my OLPF-less 5D Mark III against a Nikon D800, 5D Mark II or standard Mark III yet but the tests and final conclusion are coming before long. If you are in / near Berlin and have a Nikon D800 or D800E let me know, I’d like to do a shootout with my OLPF-less 5D Mark III and your Nikon! The D800 is out of stock everywhere at the moment and like gold dust.

BlackMagic 2.5K Cinema Camera with 12bit RAW for $3000 - The downfall of the big guys just began

The downfall of the big guys just began – BlackMagic 2.5K Cinema Camera with 12bit RAW for $3000
Monday, 16 April, 2012 18:58
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Above: Bearing a resemblance to the Box Brownie, the BlackMagic Design Cinema Camera will be available July for $3000

For too long the big corporate giants from Japan have been neglecting a huge burgeoning demand for a true next generation filmic camera for the masses… Despite stumbling ass backwards into it in pole position.

Now a company with a fraction of the resources best know for their external recording boxes (like the Hyperdeck Shuttle) BlackMagic Design has dropped a bombshell. They have entered the digital cinema market with a $3000 cinema camera that records 2.5K RAW with 13.5 stops of dynamic range to an SSD, with Thunderbolt and HD-SDI. A true next generation camera.

In terms of the camera

Sensor size is a little like the GH2′s Micro Four Thirds 16:9 multi-aspect CMOS. It sits between Super 16mm and the GH2. It isn’t quite as large as Super 35mm but it isn’t far off. The whole area of the sensor is 16.64 mm x 14.04 mm and the recording area for video is 15.6 mm x 8.8 mm.

In terms of concept this is like a Digital Bolex but it ships in July with a large sensor. (I want that project to succeed just as much as this but how many must now be asking Kickstarter for their money back?)

The raw recording format is CinemaDNG 12bit. Pretty amazing. What is more – for those whose workflow / hardware is not ready for raw, the camera also records to ProRes and Avid DNxHD.

The LCD is a capacitive touch-screen like the iPhone which should be pretty responsive and allows you to input custom metadata… But I’d have preferred to have seen more physical controls for ISO, shutter, etc.

The lens mount is compatible with EF glass because it seems to be a longer 44mm-like flange, as on the 5D Mark III. To be honest that tube could do with being hot swappable down to a bare mirrorless mount with a flange under 20mm for compatibility with more lenses and a PL mount. Not sure if it is. The EF mount includes electronic control for aperture in much the same way Metabones does it for Sony E-Mount.

A very nice addition is HD-SDI and Thunderbolt (a first for any camera). These are great inclusions at this price point and makes the camera even more appealing to any pros dissatisfied with DSLRs. Thunderbolt makes use of the transfer speeds the camera’s SSD media is capable of delivering, which will come in handy for massive raw files.

In terms of the filmmaker

This is just a picture making box. Like Apple, BlackMagic seems to get that adding simplicity rather than complexity makes for a better product. It is a machined aluminium block and the crucial interface ports are just as robust. HD-SDI is far better than HDMI. Audio connectivity is provided by 2x 1/4″ plugs which is more an audio recording studio standard than camera – these can easily be pulled out accidentally but they’re more robust than 3.5mm jacks and audio quality should not be an issue with these. The headphone jack though is 3.5mm like an iPhone.

This camera will be hot… It will sell out instantly. It will get hyped to death.

It is important to remember that this camera is a 1st generation product by a company new to the camera market.

As such – although it breaks the mould and sets the tone for future products, it is probably not going to be perfect or as good an all-rounder as more mature products from larger companies.

Will I be ordering one? Yes of course! Unless there are any huge image quality issues and the low light really sucks, it has a place in my bag because of 2.5K 12bit raw.

In terms of the market

This camera sets the cat amongst the pigeons to say the least.

Canon recognised a need for large sensor cinema cameras but priced them for Hollywood and left DSLRs to rot. With Canon it seems they have tunnel vision. The announcement of the 4K DSLR with no 4K 25p, only 24p proves this. Nobody outside Hollywood or Japan exists! It is like building a car for a worldwide market and having it leave the factory with 3 wheels. Some, like Nikon, took 3 years to realise there was even a market! Some like Red aimed at the market but failed and went back to the Hollywood glitterati, their natural home. Blackmagic Design meanwhile could so easily have priced this raw camera at $10,000 and still sell out but the fact they didn’t is hugely significant.

The Blackmagic Cinema Camera may well clean up. DSLRs have a serious rival now.

To price it high would have made a massive margin and they’d still have sold out for months. But it would be penny wise, pound foolish in the long run. It is the price that makes this camera such big news. Up against the might of Arri, Canon and Sony, a company like Blackmagic would have had a very hard time of winning market share at $10k+ but the sub $3000 market is crying out for this kind of product.

Then having established themselves here, they have the foundations and reputation for a higher end model.

Some rivals are already pushing into the future like Sony, whose FS700 is very appealing and seems to have significant benefits over the Blackmagic in terms of 4K, slow-mo, low light and a larger sensor but no raw 12bit. In the end it will all come down to image quality, workflow and price.

Source: EOSHD.com
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Canon EOS-1D C, the World's First 4K DSLR Camera, Beyond 1080p: Canon Unveils $15,000 Camera with 4K HD Video

Beyond 1080p: Canon Unveils $15,000 Camera with 4K HD Video
by Peter Pachal on Mashable

Canon has a message for everyone in pro video: 1080p is over.

The next big thing is 4K, a video format that pumps up the number of pixels to 4,096 x 2,160 — or more than four times as many as in 1080p — and Canon has just announced a truckload of equipment that hits this next milestone in digital video. The centerpiece: a DSLR camera that shoots in 4K.

The Canon EOS-1D C, a variant of the current flagship 1D X, is the monster camera that can capture video in 4K.

The camera’s full-frame CMOS sensor records 4K video at 24 frames per second. It can also record regular 1080p at either 24 or 60 fps. Canon says the EOS-1D C will arrive in 2012 and cost a whopping $15,000 (by comparison, the 1D X is $6,800).

Besides the EOS-1D, Canon also said it was developing two “digital cinematography” video cameras for shooting 4K — the EOS C500 and C500 PL — and those will be capable of capturing 4,096 x 2,160 footage at 60 fps. Canon is only at the prototype stage on these, and it predicts a list price of about $30,000 on the new cams.

And of course, what good is 4K resolution if you have nothing to display it on (besides that Sony projector we saw at CES)? Canon also unveiled a prototype of a 30-inch 4K monitor for industrial applications. No pricing on that yet, but Canon says it’ll have more to say about it before the end of the year.

Clearly, Canon wants a piece of the digital-filmmaker market that’s up till now been largely dominated by the versatile RED cameras. RED has offered cameras that shoot 4K resolution for some time — and at price points accessible by small companies as well as studios.

The star of Canon 4K sideshow is clearly the EOS-1D C camera, since it brings 4K to the DSLR arena for the first time — even at an exorbitant price. It captures 4K video straight to a CompactFlash card, and the included software is said to ensure “no loss of quality” when viewing 4K footage on an external monitor. Plus you get all the bells and whistles of the EOS-1D X.

It should be noted that 4K, while an exciting technology for digital cinema, has little value to the home-video experience as it exists today. At typical viewing distances, today’s big-screen TVs are already “retina displays” — meaning that the addition of more pixels makes no difference to the human eye.

Adding 4K to the mix won’t make a perceivable difference, unless you are sitting close enough to earn a rebuke from your mother.

What do you think of Canon’s 4K binge? Share your high-resolution thoughts in the comments.

Canon EOS-1D C, the World's First 4K DSLR Camera

The Canon EOS-1D C camera can capture 4K video (4,096 x 2,160) at 24 fps. It's based on Canon's flagship, the 1D X.

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EOS-1D C, Front View

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EOS-1D C, Back View

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EOS-1D C With a Cinema Lens, Front View

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EOS-1D C With a Cinema Lens, Side View

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EOS-1D C With a Cinema Lens, Top View

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Cinema Lens, Alternate View

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EOS-1D C, Top View

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EOS-1D C, Bottom View

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EOS-1D C, Front Angle View

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Canon EOS C500 Video Camera

Canon is also developing dedicated video cameras that record in the 4K format, which will be able to capture 4K footage at up to 60 fps.

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EOS C500, With Boom

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EOS C500, Back View

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EOS C500, Back Angle With Boom

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EOS C500, Alternate Angle

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EOS C500, Side View

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EOS C500, Alternate Side

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EOS C500, Side View With Boom

Source; Mashable.com

Fujinon 19-90mm T2.9, Final Cut Pro X release fell short of expectations, Fujinon 19-90mm

Fujinon 19-90mm T2.9, Final Cut Pro X release fell short of expectations, Fujinon 19-90mm

If you’ve missed the news, NAB 2012 is going on right now. NAB is the big video show that gives professional broadcasting companies something to look forward to. To that point, there are budget options and other video announcements that are sure to peak the interests of budget shooters as well. So far, Apple, Fujinon, and others have made some interesting announcements…

Pros across the globe shunned Apple after a much-anticipated Final Cut Pro X release fell short of expectations. Apple is picking itself back up again, however, with announcements for upcoming features that should help it be a more effective editing tool for the pros:
– Multi-channel audio editing tools
– Dual Viewers
– MXF plug-in support
– RED camera support

Is this enough to keep Apple going with FCP X?

Additionally, Fujinon announced a handy little lens: the 19-90mm T2.9 Motorized Lens for Super35mm/APS-C cameras. This neat PL-mount gadget combines Fujinon’s excellent optics with a motorized focus, zoom, and iris control. For $38,000, I’m sure you could work a few other solutions to do a similar trick, though.

The Fujinon 19-90mm T2.9 motorized lens includes an ergonomic handle and well-placed controls for controlling the focus, zoom, and iris.

If you want another solution to the Fujinon mentioned above, the HandiZoom might fit the bill. We don’t have a price yet, but add this to your twist-focus Canon (sorry non-Canon shooters) SLR lens, and you’ll have a similar solution for what’s sure to be a fraction of the cost. Check out the ‘brilliant’ video below that’ll take you back a couple decades…

Source: Fstoppers.com

4K for £4k in a body not much bigger than a DSLR

Tuesday, January 10, 2012
4K for £4k in a body not much bigger than a DSLR


JVC don't come out with cameras at nearly the rate of some other manufacturers but when they do you tend to stop and take a good look.



Today at CES in Las Vegas they announced a 4K camcorder that is the same compact size of it's existing GY-HM150 which is quite literally staggering.

So until now you needed to buy into Red 4K or Sony F65 to get this resolution so granted this may not be being pitched against those systems but to have that resolution available at such an affordable price point is very interesting indeed.

So what you get is a camcorder capable of 4 K but will also sit very comfortably at 1920x1080 so why wouldn't you.

Possible Uses

Imagine shooting a 4k master and sitting your footage on a HD time line and be able to digitally zoom and move the camera image because you have so much information to play with.

Perhaps 4K is nearer than we think for trade shows, exhibitions and maybe even other public display advertising systems.

Here's what JVC have said about the camera:

“We’re witnessing the birth of what is destined to become a broad market for full 4K end-to-end production,” said product manager, Gustav Emrich. “The GY-HMQ10 is a breakthrough product that opens up 4K imaging to users who previously wouldn't have considered it.”

 High resolution 4K still picture imaging has been around for several years in DSLR cameras. Motion video capture with these cameras has always been done at a lower video resolution because of lack of processing power. Likewise, high end digital motion picture cameras may capture 4K images, but often provide a raw data output to an external storage array for later processing - again due to lack of processing power in the camera. There just hasn't been the ability to capture, process, display and record full 4K images in real time until now.



JVC's exclusive Falconbrid LSI processing takes raw image data from the camera's CMOS device and dematrixes (deBayers) it in real time. Unlike many high end 4K cameras, the GY-HMQ10 is able to output 4K images to a monitor or projection system in real time with virtually no latency. This capability opens up applications in cinematography, medical microscopy, telepresence, specialised observation / surveillance, and live wide-view event coverage.

 Using MPEG-4 technology and a variable bit rate H.264 codec operating at up to 144 Mbps, the GY-HMQ10 records up to two hours of 4K video to economical SDHC or SDXC memory cards.

 In addition to 4K imaging, the GY-HMQ10 also captures and records astonishing 1080i or 1080/50p full HD, with extraordinary detail provided by its 8.3 megapixel imager and superior lens. HD is recorded on a single memory card in a format compatible with most editing systems, along with the ability to crop an HD image from a 4K frame. This can be accomplished in post production, or in real time during camera playback. The “trimming” feature makes HD cropping easy using the camera's touch panel LCD monitor.

 Similar in size to JVC’s popular GY-HM150 ProHD camcorder, the GY-HMQ10 includes a build-in F2.8 10x zoom lens with optical image stabiliser, as well as a colour viewfinder and 3.5-inch touch LCD monitor with a new, intuitive user interface. The GY-HMQ10 is built in a familiar, comfortable and lightweight form factor for hours of field production with minimum fatigue.

 The GY-HMQ10 is equipped with manual level controls for audio, with audio metering in the LCD and viewfinder displays. A microphone holder and two balanced XLR connectors with phantom power are located on the handle. The camera is equipped with a built-in stereo mic for ambient sound pickup.

 Other features include JVC’s patented Focus Assist, as well as manual and auto control of focus, iris, gain, shutter, gamma, colour matrix and white balance. Plus, the camera has the unusual capability of live 4K output via four HDMI terminals.

 “Historically, JVC has been a leader in camcorder and display technology, and the GY-HMQ10 is our latest breakthrough,” added Gustav. “It's part of a larger move at JVC to bring 4K technology to a wide range of customers.” In September 2011, JVC introduced an affordable line of 4K projectors to the home theatre market. The company's high-end 4K projectors are widely used in commercial flight simulators and planetariums. “4K is the logical step beyond HD,” he added, “and JVC is uniquely positioned to lead the industry in this new direction.”

 JVC's innovative approach to professional 4K will be unveiled in a series of industry announcements beginning at CES in Las Vegas and continuing throughout 2012.



The GY-HMQ10 has a list price of £4340 and is expected to ship in March 2012.




Source: Denlennie.com

Canon developing digital cinema camera for 4K video capture

Canon developing digital cinema camera for 4K video capture
April 13, 2012
Canon Inc.

EOS C500／EOS C500 PL

TOKYO, April 13, 2012—Canon Inc. announced today the company is developing a new digital cinema camera capable of recording 4K-resolution video in response to growing expectations for higher levels of imaging performance. Targeting Hollywood and the broader motion picture and television production industry, the interchangeable-lens EOS C500/EOS C500 PL will support 4K (4,096 x 2,160 pixels) video capture with RAW output to ensure the utmost in image quality.

In January this year Canon released the EOS C300 digital cinema camera, part of the company's Cinema EOS System, which was introduced in November 2011, marking Canon's full-fledged entry into the motion-picture production market. Highly acclaimed by professionals in the industry, the camera realizes not only exceptional video quality performance, but also outstanding mobility, durability and expandability.

Professionals in the high-resolution production market have growing expectations for filmmaking tools offering even higher levels of video image quality. In response, Canon is moving forward with the development of a new interchangeable-lens digital cinema camera, available in two models: the EOS C500, which supports Canon's diverse lineup of interchangeable EF lenses and EF Cinema Lenses; and the EOS C500 PL, with a PL lens mount for compatibility with industry-standard PL lenses. Supporting 4K-resolution video capture and RAW data output, the EOS C500/EOS C500 PL will achieve exceptional video results without loss in quality. In addition, the digital cinema camera will newly employ a 12-bit RGB 4:4:4 signal during 2K (2,048 x 1,080 pixels) video output, delivering rich color expression and high compatibility with such image processes as chroma key compositing. While further details regarding the EOS C500/EOS C500 PL, including specifications and pricing, have yet to be decided, plans call for the digital cinema camera to be launched during 2012.

Canon will be displaying a prototype of the EOS C500/EOS C500 PL digital cinema camera at NAB Show 2012, one of the world's largest events for the video, broadcasting equipment and digital media industries, from April 16 to 19 in Las Vegas, U.S.A.

In addition to targeting a swift launch of the EOS C500/EOS C500 PL, Canon will continue to enhance its Cinema EOS System product lineup, contributing to further expanding the possibilities in visual expression and the development of cinematic culture.

Source: http://www.canon.com/news/2012/apr13e02.html