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[Barry Green] “…apparently the CCDs are natively scanned at 1080/60p.”
I’d like to know the horizontal resolution of the chips and is it same with European models?
So, maybe there’s no pixel shifting at all?
I’d thought it would have been better way to use 720p chips and vertical pixel shifting for component recording formats. That way the chips would have been a lot more sensitive. -
When Viper is used in filmstream mode, isn’t it just raw data without any compression?
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And btw, it’s highly unlikely that there will be any camera+cards bundles within EU.
There’s a customs duty for importing video camera into EU, so if camera is bundled with memory cards, the latter would get the customs duty also. -
If they manufacture the model something like 500 pieces per week and start next week, you can calculate from there. Maybe in January certain portion of manufacturing turns to “PAL”-model…
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You really think that flashable eeproms are too expensive for $6k camera?
Why they are not too expensive for $600 camera? -
It was mentioned before that pal version might be available in February.
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Does it accept 1080p input?
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Nice to know that production starts next week!
Are we going to get any specs before cameras are in stores?
Btw, I’m not trying to change the camera any way, just speculating (for fun) the reasons why it is built in a way it is.
I still remember in the start of 90s’ when 486’s first had unwritable prom bioses, then you could erase then with UV light and after that came eeproms.
I can think of two reasons for non-upgradedable firmware: other one is that panny doesn’t want people to update their cameras by themselves either because of being afraid of bad PR if updates go wrong and cameras die a lot. That’s why Nokia’s phones can be updated only by repair shop. Other thing is to support that panny’s support still has work to do so they don’t get out of business with these evermore maintenance free cameras. -
Sadly brightness adjustments also affects the black level in lcds.
Maybe that’s because backlight brightness is also used to handle overall brightness? -
Well, can you define what do you mean by “expensive”? How many dollars per camera?
Very often manufacturers save costs something like ten bucks per camera with material expenses like chips and that saving grows through production to something like hundred bukcs. So if you sell 100 000 cameras you save 10 million bucks and bosses are happy.
Can you dig the info of the “firmware chip” model up?
I can find a list price for that chip.Btw, all dslr cameras and most of cheaper digital still cameras have already updateble firmware, so the limitation isn’t technical or economical.