i'm sure that this has been posted about before, but as i like to post little updates to my blog the forum, i thought i'd start a new thread on it. yum!

there was a post about this recently on the DLF mailing group...exciting stuff. Plus, it just looks like a beast, which helps. I want an ammo-belt-type thing studded with wicked-looking modular camera pieces. I think they're going to have to wait for computing power to catch up a bit for some of their proposed "brains"...I don't think there are many systems capable of handling 4K in real time at the moment, let alone 20+K. I love the idea of being able to upgrade individual components...built-in obsolescence is not something you want in such an expensive bit of kit. I'll never be able to justify any of that stuff, but I imagine there'd be plenty of one-man-band videographer types who have been waiting for this...

...exactly who I was thinking of, although I don't know why as I don't really know what you do!

(of course, we wont be getting it)

As far as video is concerned, this is a revolution: 6k for a full frame (motion film full frame, not still full frame) camera that does 50fps? Out of this world. That is such a low-end price-point, it's insane. And it's not just direct sales, consider how many rental shops will be able to afford kit like this. If you live in LA and you need to rent a full frame digital camera, there are tons of shops. But what if you live in Salem, Oregon? Or St. Cloud, Minnesota? It's suddenly not that much anymore. Awesome, just awesome.

Ah, and the announced 617 digital back... WOW. The largest commercially available digital back right now is full frame 645 (6x4.5cm) which is 56x41mm iirc. There are 6x17cm backs, but they're scanning backs - they are literally scanners that run over a piece of a glass onto which the image has been projected, image capture takes a minimum of 30-45s. This just blows that out of the water. I am very curious as to how they're cooling a CMOS chip of that size, it took Canon a while to do it for their 5D mkII.