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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 :)

EPIC missed spec...

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Hmmm... missed specs by at least 5x? I hope someone's head is rolling around on the floor.
 
Last time I shot with an F900 the rental company gave me instructions to warm up the camera for 30 MINUTES before shooting because of a "dead pixel issue". No joke.

10 seconds is just fine for cine. Perhaps if it's booted in stills mode the cine boot functions can be limited and it could be faster? Then a small wait period as you flip to cine?
 
This'll probably upset a few groups of users...I'm sad to say I'm one of them. As a photojournalist, 10 seconds is an awful long time to wait if this is the camera we'll be relying on for stills as well as motion.
If there can be some sort of low power sleep mode that will be virtually instant-on, that would be great, otherwise it'll either be a situation where we need to adapt or have a conventional SLR on hand.
 
JD Holloway said:
Perhaps if it's booted in stills mode the cine boot functions can be limited and it could be faster?
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Indeed, a quicker stills mode would be a huge bonus.

5 seconds for stills, 10 seconds for video? A simple switch could determine the which set of features to boot.

Even if its 10 seconds to record, being able to frame the shot quickly would be a nice tradeoff.
 
NO problem at all...
The time that i need to light my Cohiba
Congrats Mr. J

Good Luck Epic Season
 
Brad Webb said:
If you want a stills only brain buy a DSLR.
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If it turns out issues like this make the Scarlets and Epics not-quite-ideal as still cameras, a simpler stills-only brain is not a bad idea. The more brains they spread sensor R&D costs between, the more people they sell modules and other accessories to, the cheaper everything will be, and the faster R&D on the next products will be.

You really think I was the only one hoping the FF35 Scarlet could be my cinema camera AND replace my DSLR? I think that's what they MEANT with 'DSMC'

But even if it turns out you couldn't do it with one brain, a Scarlet brain plus the stills-only brain and only ONE of everything else would probably still be cheaper and easier than owning two totally different camera systems from two different manufacturers. I'd be down for that.
 
Lee Saxon said:
If it turns out issues like this make the Scarlets and Epics not-quite-ideal as still cameras, a simpler stills-only brain is not a bad idea. The more brains they spread sensor R&D costs between, the more people they sell modules and other accessories to, the cheaper everything will be, and the faster R&D on the next products will be.

You really think I was the only one hoping the FF35 Scarlet could be my cinema camera AND replace my DSLR? I think that's what they MEANT with 'DSMC'

But even if it turns out you couldn't do it with one brain, a Scarlet brain plus the stills-only brain and only ONE of everything else would probably still be cheaper and easier than owning two totally different camera systems from two different manufacturers. I'd be down for that.
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I think that once you've shot motion, even for a still end product, you will probably never shoot stills again.

Why take a portrait shot and have someone blink?
Why take an action shot and miss it?
Why take a landscape shot only to have it marred by wildlife?
Shoot motion.
 
Send the prototype over to London, and I will make it boot in 2 secs.
I had a look at the blueprints we stole... ah... you send us as agreed and I know where the problem is.
 
Jim, you have working prototypes?!??
 
LOL You were one of the first to notice or at least to post it ;-)

11 days ago in Rome, Ted didn't have these news yet despite my direct question towards the subject.
 
Whatever Jim. I would gladly wait 10 minutes for this thing to boot up...not like I am going to be turning it off much anyway...:}
 
Jannard said:
In an effort to get the bad news out as soon as we have it, it looks like we will likely miss (at least) one proposed spec on EPIC/Scarlet. The engineers tell me that a 2 second startup time is now not possible given all the changes/additions to the program. Our current prototypes are starting up in 15 seconds and we think a reasonable target for production cameras is about 10 seconds.

Jim
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er... it's a Cinema Camera, not a news camera...

15 sec is more than enough for such mega power :)

Keep up the incredible work!

Antoine
 
15 seconds is fine for me. Current 'PROTOTYPES'. It's funny how Jim tries to deliver bad news and inadvertedly ends up breaking the best news we've heard for ages.
 
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