Shane Betts
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No need for an apology Walter. You were perfectly clear. Adobe’s documentation, not so much…
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Thanks Walter. It works! I was kinda confused, thinking that aerender was like some Terminal-only apps that Terminal seems to know where they live even though you never come across them in the GUI. But now that I understand that it has to locate the executable it all becomes clear. Thanks again!
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No:-( Focal length is what it is. A 50mm is a 50mm is a 50mm – except on some happy snappy cameras where they place an asterix next to the focal length and in small print somewhere mention they’re talking “35mm comparative” or some such marketing speak.
So, presuming your point of reference is a 36x24mm frame (full frame 35mm stills), Dx or super 35 (motion picture 16:9 default) is 1.6:1 and this camera is around 2:1.
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A 10-22 would deliver the equivalent of 20-44 on this 2x crop sensor. Still not all that bad. And, yes, as you point out, you’re in the sweet spot – one of the major advantages of the smaller sensor.
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Just read Marco Solorio’s article on the camera and it just further confirmed for me the potential of this camera. And I don’t share his uncertainty over moire and aliasing – like Red’s cameras this camera directly maps each sensor pixel to each captured pixel so these issues shouldn’t arise.
Now then Grant, just give us a Micro 4 thirds mount and we’re all good to go.
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Yep, there are adaptors that allow you to go from EF to any number of other (35mm) mounts. Problem is the 44mm flange distance – short for 35mm cameras (hence the proliferation of adaptors) is too big for this camera.
Given the tiny sensor, this camera needs 16mm lenses and the Arri 16mm flange distance is something like 17.5mm if I remember correctly. You can always use an adaptor to move the lens away from the sensor in the case of short flange depth mounts – so you could always mount an EF lens on a camera with a 17.5mm flange depth but you can’t go the other way…
All BMD need to do is change the front standard to a short flange depth mount. That would open it up to all kinds of lens makes via adaptors. I really hope they do because the camera looks really intriguing.
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I’m a bit of a fan too. And you’re right, Grant invented the whole free firmware update thing Red have made their own. The lens mount concerns me more because it’s a hardware redesign. Not out of the question of course, which is why it’s essential we make some noise about it.
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Nope. That’s the problem right there. They would be ideal but the flange depth of the Canon mount is way to great. Great concept. Mount fail.
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Grant truly is, still, one of the great disruptors in the industry and this camera is one of his most disruptive moves yet. I just wish it had a lens mount more suited to the smaller sensor. Micro 4/3 or Sony NEX would allow you to adapt almost any glass you want to it because of their extremely short flange distance. With an EF mount, the native mount is too far away from the sensor to mount 16mm glass (which would be ideal) on the camera.
Yes, there are a couple of other niggles but this thing delivers something very close to Alexa (OK, with more depth of field) for under $3k. WTF?! He’s going to sell a ton of them despite the lack of wide angle lenses. I just wish he’d got the mount right.
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Reading through the specs I notice one other issue. Inbuilt battery. 90 minutes use, 2 hours recharge. Who else sees the problem here?
It’ll be interesting as people get these things and build rod kits, external power kits etc.
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Bettsy