Cmos sensor of the AF100

[Katty Galloo]

However, the low pass filter is optical, not electronic, so it happens before the photons even reach the sensor to be captured. Panasonic is not telling so far how they are capturing the data, or how they are down-sampling. All we know is they are actually using MOS and not CMOS technology (which is different) and that they say they are not skipping lines. Sure, given they know the cutoff of the OLPF, they probably tuned the sensor workings to deal with that, but regardless, you can avoid mpeg4 completely by taking the signal out of the HDSDI port. What's important though, is it is NOT a 4k camera. Like I said, the only way to really judge the resolution of a camera is not by the pixels it outputs, but by the lines it resolves in a proper test, which I find really good.

Ok thanks, anyways its a nice image and am impressed by it low light performances that is really awesome!

 

[Katty Galloo]

Hey Katty, The problem is that you are counting pixels and not the actual performance of the camera. We use a low pass optical filter(grimepoch this one is for you) to bring the 12.2M pixels into a 800 lines of resolution so that it can be recorded as an HD signal without the moire and aliasing that the DSLRs have. There is no means of gaining access to the higher pixel density.

Best regards,

Jan

Hi Jan,

This is a question to you course you are the Panasonic insider and could give us the wright answer. There is confussion about the SDI output if it would be; 8bit, 10 bit wrapper (whatever that is) , or true 10 bit ?
Can you tell us what it really outputs. It can be important for recording on the futured ' Atomos Samurai ' recording true 10 bit.

Kind regards,
Katty

 

[David W. Jones]

The AF100 uses an 8-bit output

 

[Rick Burnett]

The AF100 uses an 8-bit output

In a ten bit wrapper

 

[groveChuck]

In a ten bit wrapper

Housed in a $4K box :happy:

 

[Barry_Green]

That is correct. Basically all low-cost cameras do the same. HD-SDI is always a 10-bit wrapper, the question is whether you're supplying data in all 10 bits, or data in 8 bits. All the JVC cameras, all the Canon cameras, all the AG Panasonics, and all the low-cost Sonys (except maybe the NX5?) are 8-bit. You have to typically go to an EX1 or HPX370 level camera to get 10 bits of data.