AJA Camera – CION

[Shawn Miller]

[Jeremy Garchow] “A 10″ monitor seems like it would snap off in real world usage.

I don’t rely on ship dates from anyone anymore. 🙂

Jeremy”

Yeah, my first thought about the 10″ monitor was that; a. it should have been a 7″ monitor, and b. it should be a separate accessory… too much like Red?

Pretty much agree about ship dates. 🙂

Shawn

[Chris Harlan]

It was a cool looking camera. tried to heft it today but the line for it was a little long.

[Lance Bachelder]

Maybe for the 25 and under crowd that was clamoring around the BMD booth – but the CION is the real deal – 4 years in the making – this is NOT a wannabe camera, it’s a very well thought out pro camera with incredible features and build quality. A 5-time Emmy winning DP put it on his shoulder and stated it was the most comfortable camera he had ever held. I concur, the weight and balance and suede shoulder pad and awesome.

This was built by AJA engineers who have a true passion for cameras, especially classic film cameras like the NPR, AATON and SRII – can’t wait to buy mine 🙂

Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Downtown Long Beach, California
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1680680/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

[Mitch Ives]

[Steve Connor] “Once again AJA have had their thunder stolen by BMD!”

I don’t think so. I was in both booths. The BMD is 4K only… look at all the formats the AJA has. Huge difference. Most people won’t shoot 4K all the time.

Then there is the “AJA only releases things that actually work”. People that I know that have the first BMD camera are still waiting for promised fixes.

Different cameras… different companies… different target.

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill

[Steve Connor]

[Mitch Ives] “I don’t think so. I was in both booths. The BMD is 4K only… look at all the formats the AJA has. Huge difference. Most people won’t shoot 4K all the time.”

I was talking in PR terms, the AJA camera itself looks great. What were your first impressions of both of them?

Steve Connor

Class Bully

[Craig Seeman]

Given the cost difference between the two cameras one might actually get the ROI on the price difference before BMD actually provides all the promised features.

Unless something changes at BMD, the Ursa will ship six months late in ridiculously limited quantities. It’ll take close to a year before it readily available and another six months to a year of firmware updates before all the fixes are handled and features implemented. Maybe on this third camera from BMD things will be different but, given the price difference between the URSA and CION, I’m not sure it’s worth the difference for even a small productive production company.

I certainly like my BMD Pocket. But I keep in mind that announced at NAB 2013, a full year later there’s still no Audio Meters nor Time Remaining for the cards. This is also the case for the Cinema Camera from 2012.

[Mitch Ives]

Well it looks like Craig got there first and pretty much covered it all. I’ll just add that AJA’s stuff is almost always rock solid from the get go…

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill