The Gemini sounds great. Can some one fire off a letter to Panasonic to let them know they have to bring their game up to 10 bit 4:2:2 with the AF 1XX so we can draw maximum advantage from using the Gemini?
I also posted this information in the Sony F3 forum. Many have asked this question in this forum so I posted the answer here also.
The price of memory chips that go into Solid State Drives and other devices have been very volatile lately.
As such, we were reluctant to release the prices of the 256 GB and 512 GB 1.8" SSD's that we will offer for the Gemini 4:4:4. We were going to wait until NAB for the price announcement.
However, many have asked for the prices for planning purposes.
We will be offering industry standard 1.8" SSD's, but they will be very high performance models.
We will be purchasing these in large quantities, then thoroughly testing them at both regular and elevated temperatures.
Our price for 256 GB SSD will be $749 and 512 GB will be $1,349.
These SSD's have a minimum sustained write speed of 260 Megabytes per second (MBps) which is far faster than CompactFlash cards which generally top out at around 90 MBps (SanDisk Extreme Pro).
For comparison, 256 GB of 64 GB SanDisk Extreme Pro currently cost $2,079.96 versus our price for a 256 GB SSD at $749.
For 512 GB, the comparison is $4,159.92 versus $1,349.
In both cases we are comparing the initial purchase price for highly resuable media.
These prices are subject to change due to market conditions beyond our control.
