Our 3DGuy loves building his own system. Just recently, he designed a 3D rig for the GoPro Hero3 that is attachable to the DJI Phantom quadcopter! Well, he is not alone. Geeky minds are scattered around the world for sure! Here comes another filmmaker who builds his own raw cinema camera!
Meet German filmmaker Roald Christessen. t took Christessen six months to piece together the off the shelf parts to make his 16mm digital camera, which uses the same Kodak Trusense CCD sensor as the Ikonoskop cinema camera and yields Raw images at 1920 x 800 resolution. That’s a bit low, but still, not bad. Native ISO is 200, but no word on what the dynamic range is. And not only that, but the camera has a global shutter, something that RED didn’t put in until just recently! Audio is CD quality, recording in either 44.1, 48 or 96 KHz, 16 or 24 bit, mono or stereo. It also has room for two XLR audio connectors with phantom power, HDMI output for monitoring and may include HD-SDI connections in a future version. The camera will also come with one on board internal SSD and a secondary SSD slot as well. And to process the raw video, Christessen took to writing his own transcoding and color grading software suite (man, this guy is a renaissance man).
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