A-cam dII 'High Definition RAW Format Motion Picture Camera

marques said:
could anyone advise me as to what would be the cheapest lens option for this camera. i had a look at the manufactures forum but it seems to have way to much jargon and unanswered posts.
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It's using the interchangeable lens mount system, so you could get a cheap canon lens for a few hundred bucks.
 
sam alcoff said:
It's using the interchangeable lens mount system, so you could get a cheap canon lens for a few hundred bucks.
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If I'm not mistaken when you use Canon or Nikon or other still lenses on here you're going to change the magnification of the lens, dramatically. I don't know just how much it works out to, but say for example you put on a 35mm Nikon lens...it will end up magnifiied to something similar to a telephoto lens.

Somebody with more technical knowledge might be able to speak to this. I'm sure Otis can talk about this, if he hasn't already.

J.
 
The 35mm is about a 50mm in super35 (or crop factor dslr) but a 130mm in 2/3", so you need a c mount or 16mm lens in order to cover the wide angle area. You can get good affordable slr lenses from 24mm and up so a couple of wide angle lenses (8mm and 12mm perhaps) will do the job. A 5mm peprhaps if you need an extreme wide angle (same coverage with 18,75mm in full frame SLR or 12,5mm in crop factor).

Similar problem with the crop factor dslrs which have 1.5x or 1.6x crop factor (both magnification and absolute aperture reduction for same aperture ratio). The 2/3" has 3.75x compared to full frame still cameras and 2.5x compared to super35.
 
Ahhhh...

Yesterday I got an e-mail from Ikonoskop saying that the first batch of cameras will be delayed until early February 2009.

Buhuhuuuuu.... (crying big tears)

Peter
 
I read there is two recording options a 3.5MB/s RAW and a 12MB/s DNG RAW. Can anybody elaborate about this, how is one compared to the other? So 80GB could only hold 5 minutes at most...
 
It's a typo. I think it should read 3.5mb/frame in 12bit raw DNG and 12mb/frame in 16bit color TIFF.

The DNG frame size is 1920x1080x12bit=24883200bits=3110400bytes or about 3MB/frame.

A TIFF 16bit would be 1920x1080x16bitx3colors=99532800bits=12441600bytes or about 12MB per frame.
 
Makes sense. But then, exporting the DNG to TIFF doesn't look like an smart workflow...

This camera seems really good, i am quite interested, but one will have to invest a lot in raid storage. I wish a small DNG sequence was available. I wonder if you can use Apple Aperture to mess with these DNG files.

What about DRAMA Otis, will it save files in DNG as well?
 
Tiff is slow. I have tried a DNG implementation on the Drama. Just like with DSLRs, it's not the fastest way to work. On the Drama there is more power in the camera and SATA2 links, so the workflow can be faster due to sotware and interface (interface alone is many times faster than usb2).

I can't release details on workflow at this time, but it will be sensible, fast and compatible.
 
When we actually have the camera in production stage, fully specified, with pricing and a documented workflow, we will let the public know. This will be about 2 months before release with a short preorder stage.

If you have a question about Drama or digital imaging in general, you can ask on this thread:

http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=132566&page=11

Many things changed since the thread begun, and some things will still change in production model, that's why I don't believe in early publicity and two year long marketing efforts.
 
I have a question. The blog says this camera is using the Kodak 02150 sensor. Is this newer sensor better than thee 2093 with much larger photosites (7.4µm vs 5.5µm) and much more charge per photosite?
 
2093 is larger but has more noise and inferior antismear. The 02150 ends up getting similar and sometimes a lot better results in low light.

The 2093 is also so large that most lenses for 2/3" and 16mm will not cover it. 02150 is the largest you would want to use with these lenses.
 
QUESTION: Can you give me just a real brief synopsis of where we are in the development of this camera and kinda the history, what the journey has been for you guys?

ANSWER?: (Grabbing the camera and keeping it as one would keep it in order to film the floor): Yeah... You can look at... I think the best view is if you look like this. We wanted to create a very low and narrow profile. We could have the viewfinder better for the user but we wanted a very low and narrow profile. This is a prototype, we will change some of radiuses slightly.

An obvious emphasis on the aesthetics of design over usability. The opposite of a Panasonic.
 
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