Y2 Digital Cinema Camera

[Scott Webster]

http://picasaweb.google.com/yolklab/YOLKY2#5383601301875548434

Thanks to @5tu for the link.

I believe the Yolk folk use to post on RedUser. Other than the pics I know nothing.

 

[Patrick Tresch]

http://picasaweb.google.com/yolklab/YOLKY2#5383601301875548434

Thanks to @5tu for the link.

I believe the Yolk folk use to post on RedUser. Other than the pics I know nothing.

Is this an Aaton? I love the design. Closer to a shoulder cam as any DSMCrawTM I saw.

Pat

PS: any other links?

 

[Scott Webster]

Is this an Aaton? I love the design. Closer to a shoulder cam as any DSMCrawTM I saw.

Pat

PS: any other links?

Private design out of Switzerland http://www.yolk.org/ Perhaps you could pop round for a visit? :smile5:

 

[Evangelos Achillopoulos]

This was the code name "Nell" project... It has spinning mirror shutter, optical viewfinder, and an auto back focus electronically adjusted... the removable back is the data storage...

If my memory serves me well they going to have an S16 flavor and an S35... this must be the S16 prototype...

Its one of the best design I have ever seen... Lets hope that it will hit the market by the end of 2010...

 

[Michael Lindsay]

... and an auto back focus electronically adjusted...

After using a Contax AX years ago I wondered about the possibility of doing this for motion cameras. I always assumed there was a complication that I couldn't see that would make it too difficult for motion (registration issues or something)..

Maybe Red should look into it!

Michael

 

[Felix K.]

It's gotten to the point where I find it difficult to distinguish between renders and photographs... in this case I think it's a render, but just because of the viewfinder... not sure why...

Great design.

 

[Tom Lowe]

Lovely. Specs?

 

[Sanjin Jukic]

YOLK Y2 prototype of new digital cinema camera

Now I finally have got why they were hanging on my shoulder(s) all the time and making jokes about Leica Noctilux lens I was testing twice.

It could be described even as a kind of industrial "close watching" and somebody would think maybe it's about sort of a product "espionage"...(!?)...

But anyway Y2 new camera looks very interesting.

Somehow and after all those stupid forum fights about Noctilux I would say to them now, congratulations YOLKS.

Now everybody is waiting for the camera specs.

 

[Evangelos Achillopoulos]

Ok a bit more of "Nell" Y2... early CAD designs...

The bottom and the battery...

I can't say any more since I'm not authorized...

 

[Jason Wingrove]

Loks like a VERY nice physical proto. Im sure its been well and truly abandoned by whoever commissioned it. VERY nice piece of industrial design tho, wisely borrowing from the best people at ergonomics

 

[Zakaree Sandberg]

SOLD!!!!!
I love this design..

 

[Mitch Gross]

A bunch of people have asked me privately about this snce we're deep into Digital Cinema as well as Aaton's dealer for North America.

No, this is not an Aaton, although we can all plainly see where most of the design influence came from. No, I really can't tell you any more as it is not my place to. Perhaps David at Yolk might care to now that this has slipped out. Or perhaps not.

 

[Scott Webster]

Mitch, is that a physical model of a prototype body?

 

[Zakaree Sandberg]

I dont know what the specs are... but If this has a good price tag, 2k or 4k (as long as It has a 35mm sensor) Ill be buying this over anything else..

 

[Zakaree Sandberg]

now that I look at the photo.. looks like a 2/3 '' sensor

 

[Matt Gottshalk]

Looks like the designers are bringing the ergonomics of the traditional film camera to the digital realm.

There's something to be said for that.

 

[Nick Gardner]

It's unfortunate that they took their design from a 30 year old camera designed for small lightweight lenses. The LTR was designed to balance with a tiny zoom like a 9.5-57. Put modern glass, a matte box, and a couple of p size filters on there, and man is it front heavy.

 

[ScottyC]

Very cool... but I am more interested in specs than the look. As Nick said, it appears to be designed for lightweight lenses (which may or may not be a bad thing), but how can we compare it to other equivalent technology? At this point, Comparing this and RED could be like comparing a Lambo with a Chevy... or like comparing IMAX film to a homemade video posted to YouTube.

Maybe I am exaggerating a little bit, but my point is that I am interested in knowing specs before I will drool over the look.

 

[Zakaree Sandberg]

Specs are topping out to whats really needed. Now its time to get design right on the money.. These guys nailed it for me!! You dont handhold with 12:1s anyways so whats the front weight complaint?? A short zoom or proper primes and a clip on, and this camera is prime.

 

[Sanjin Jukic]

Also we should not forget that

"Bolex is a Swiss company (Bolex International S.A. of Yverdon-les-Bains) that manufactures motion picture cameras and lenses,

the most notable products of which are in the 16 mm and Super 16 mm formats."

LINK>>>

Just compare a bit Y2 with Les Bosher PL conversion of Bolex RX

Y2 with PL mount

Les Bosher Bolex RX Converted to Super16 with Les Bosher PL Hard Front

Mostly I was "driving" them crazy here at the forum, why (?) nobody knows (?), maybe Noctilux knows, but that's just a lens.

Irmeli and David from YOLK S.à.r.l

(Noctilux case)>> I would describe it more as a "fear" of new ARRIFLEX digital camera that should a sort of

"affordable" with a "BMW" like prices and quality digital cinema camera for every professional that is coming next year.