What is the "new best thing"?
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thekreative
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I'd say Dynamic Range with a hint of really slow, slow-motion!
pulpfiction007
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I think in the evolution you missed one item before raw 4k- it was fairly low cost large sensor video cams made in part because of the DSLRs....AF100, FS100 etc.
My next item would be affordable cinema cams ...like the BMC, D Bolex (if it gets made) with either raw or with on board codecs meant for editing...not for conserving space.
My next item would be affordable cinema cams ...like the BMC, D Bolex (if it gets made) with either raw or with on board codecs meant for editing...not for conserving space.
robmneilson
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I think VHS-C is going to come back in a big big way. Just you watch....
Gord.T
Still "Senior Member"
And remember those old junky CRT's that everyone throws in the garbage? Try and get your hands on one in 20 years. Okay, maybe 100 years. Okay, never mind.
alex1
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I should have added the new Dragon Red Camera at the end, 6K, 65mm sensor, high frame rate, tons of latitude. So is this the new path? More resolution, bigger senors, higher frame rates and latitude. Lets say in 10 years we get a camera that is 65mm sensor, 1000fps 6k, 20 stops of latitude, $3000 price tag....do you think that might be it? Where do you go from there?
Gord.T
Still "Senior Member"
Uneducated response = When video starts looking like film?
morgan_moore
Major Contributor
In stills ive been through the full wheel film - multiple generations of crappy digitial - nikon D3 - that camera was as good as film and just stopped me thinking about the next big thing.
Could the F5 or Epic+faster sensor offer the same? really 4k raw is very good, frankly im not sure I could want a lot more than the F5
What is missing from movie nirvana?..
Assuming 4k raw..
-affordability
Epic/F5 are still mainly out of reach
-FPS
Lets face it we all love those Phantom shots!
-focus control
No one will agree, but well thought out AF with manual override would be very handy
-mass
A built epic still wont go in the overhead
-stabilization
Sack off the sticks!
-ergonomics
Simply all current large sensor cams (apart from alexa?) are pretty horrid
-talking to the world
Cameras like the NEX5n/GoPro smash larger cams for connectivity - ipad monitor, decent remote control
-UI
Id love a open source programmable interface
-zoom/variable prime
Here is a real physics problem an 18-85/2 that you can pick up
Could the F5 or Epic+faster sensor offer the same? really 4k raw is very good, frankly im not sure I could want a lot more than the F5
What is missing from movie nirvana?..
Assuming 4k raw..
-affordability
Epic/F5 are still mainly out of reach
-FPS
Lets face it we all love those Phantom shots!
-focus control
No one will agree, but well thought out AF with manual override would be very handy
-mass
A built epic still wont go in the overhead
-stabilization
Sack off the sticks!
-ergonomics
Simply all current large sensor cams (apart from alexa?) are pretty horrid
-talking to the world
Cameras like the NEX5n/GoPro smash larger cams for connectivity - ipad monitor, decent remote control
-UI
Id love a open source programmable interface
-zoom/variable prime
Here is a real physics problem an 18-85/2 that you can pick up
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Justin Kuhn
Veteran
The next big thing is probably footage that captures all points of focus so you can control where your focus is in the edit. https://www.lytro.com/camera
Jester2138
Well-known member
I agree - stuff like that. Something more than just upping the specs on what we already have.
Sage
Well-known member
*We are already there...
If we look at the history of cinema, the times of great technological progress were not the points of greatest creative innovation in that area -
...but the decades after, when the technology became boring, and accessible. Long reel, sound, color & widescreen, high speed (iso) film, surround, digital intermediate & NLE, digital projection & acquisition, etc.
Everybody has access to 'good enough'.
The room will clear out, but storytellers remain - because they have no other way of being.
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Pickthorne
Active member
A proliferation of smaller, more nimble and responsive companies that cater to niche camera hardware and software markets. They will be enabled by a greater selection of off-the-shelf components and modules, and by maturing technologies like 3D printing and screen-to-machine design.
Their architecture will be open-source and fully customizable. Just as today you pick and choose your rig components, in the future you will do the same with codecs, in-camera features and behaviours. It won't be called hacks anymore than we call 15mm rails hacks today.
Physical recording media will continue to recede, and will completely vanish for a while, and people will clamour to get their footage in that ridiculous marketing hoax know as the "cloud". But the calamitous "Network Skirmishes" of 2021 between Fruit Station 9 and the Western Google Consortium will remind everyone to store their own sh*t again. Quantum computing and protein-based storage will remove present barriers to storage.
Well that was phun,
Craig
Their architecture will be open-source and fully customizable. Just as today you pick and choose your rig components, in the future you will do the same with codecs, in-camera features and behaviours. It won't be called hacks anymore than we call 15mm rails hacks today.
Physical recording media will continue to recede, and will completely vanish for a while, and people will clamour to get their footage in that ridiculous marketing hoax know as the "cloud". But the calamitous "Network Skirmishes" of 2021 between Fruit Station 9 and the Western Google Consortium will remind everyone to store their own sh*t again. Quantum computing and protein-based storage will remove present barriers to storage.
Well that was phun,
Craig