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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

Umm... 28K?

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Jeremy Hughes

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The Epic 617 is 28K? Twenty-eight thousand? What?! 261mp?!

Jim was right, it really is a "scam"!

Spring 2010. That's not too long for 28K. It's only 25fps max, but there's plenty of time for more revolutions to be added to it even.

$55,000. That's cheap. Brain only though, I guess you get an Epic and add it to it?

186x65. That's 2.86:1.

How are you going to edit this? Is FCS4 going to support editing 28K? We don't even have practical enough displays for 4K yet, and we are getting 28K?

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for it. I'm just in shock. I was expecting 6K, then I saw 9K scarlet and was shocked, then I saw 617.
 
Its your neg man. Don't think about 28k display systems. Think about capturing the best possible image to start with.

That being said, this is obviously for the feature market, not the broadcast market. For 28k to be practical we'd need full R3D support across all apps and I think we're in good shape to get there by 2010. Still, at 500MB/sec we're talking about some very beefy hardware to make any kind of post workflow possible. Im more excited thinking about how to build the post solution than I am about the camera it self!
 
Post production needs to get it together - or should I say computer processors.

I tried working a 4K image in a color correct on a Lustre and even that beast couldn't keep up.

28K fugeddaboudit.
 
dmacleod said:
Post production needs to get it together - or should I say computer processors.

I tried working a 4K image in a color correct on a Lustre and even that beast couldn't keep up.

28K fugeddaboudit.
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Come play in our Scratch suite. :matrix:
 
Yeah, the computers... Where'd you get 500MB/s? [edit: REDCODE 500. Okay.] That's a lot. 1.7TB per hour!

Could you imagine the focal length you'd need to get a wide angle? Lenses are TBA.

P.S looks like it's got a built in monitor.
 
I just realized. It would be the highest resolution sensor ever.
 
Well, I'd remember you can extract lower resolutions from the R3D. And think of the uses of cropping and panning over such a high resolution image. Could make for interesting creative possibilities for movie-making as well as sfx work.

Graeme
 
Is there a way to implement a ROI in the SDK when decoding / debayering and only process within those bounds. Or is the only way to do a full decode, and then crop?

Could be pretty useful with framesizes like that.
 
Graeme Nattress said:
Well, I'd remember you can extract lower resolutions from the R3D. And think of the uses of cropping and panning over such a high resolution image. Could make for interesting creative possibilities for movie-making as well as sfx work.

Graeme
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Oh, absolutley. And you could have a natrual 2.35:1 6K and all. It would open a lot of possibilities for people with more average computers if it could record lower resolutions too.
 
Anders Holck said:
Is there a way to implement a ROI in the SDK when decoding / debayering and only process within those bounds. Or is the only way to do a full decode, and then crop?

Could be pretty useful with framesizes like that.
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Not to mention a whole lot quicker.
 
Anders, good question, but I don't think we can go into the geeky technical details yet.

Graeme
 
That shoulder mounted 28K version must be a joke right? Where does the operator carry the 500Mb/s raid?
 
Benni Diez said:
I think it's primarily for high-end photography.

But the opportunities for FX work are amazing! Imagine the panoramas you can capture with this thing and a fish eye!
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Almost any normal lens will be a fisheye with this camera!
 
Has anyone thought that maybe just maybe, you get 3 cameras pointed in a direction and you take whatever 4K shot you want from it? No more planning shots just get the action put cameras around and film it? Weird way to think about filming but still its a thought.
 
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