Freefly Wave high-speed camera. Small, light, and insanely fast

[rand thompson]

Freefly Wave high-speed camera. Small, light, and insanely fast


By Newsshooter


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https://www.newsshooter.com/2020/10/08/freefly-wave-high-speed-camera-small-light-and-insanely-fast/

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https://freeflysystems.com/wave

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[Remington Chase]

Who's the goof in the one hour live stream? No Mac support, yikes. Blowing out candles?? they seemed to be at a loss of why anyone would shoot slomo. Terrible roll out reel.

Looks like a bunch of these super 35 global shutter cams are coming down the pike.

 

[Phil Holland]

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Not defending much, but I do appreciate Tabb's awareness that this is absolutely a specialty camera via that livestream as well as stuff they need to work on. And I'll highlight, much like many similar-ish approaches to a camera system like this, the announcement and current state of the camera is the very earliest of days. Not to mention this is their first camera.

What I will say is it's nice to have competition in the high speed specialty camera arena. These are never going to be top sellers or the preferred way to shoot say narrative projects. But if you find yourself needing to drop berries into buckets of cream, this is something you'd use.

That last point regarding a bunch of S35 global shutter cams hitting the market. My hot take. It still takes a fair bit of resources to make a camera, but it's now doable and far easier than ever before. Yet still hard to cross off things on the list. Refinement, reliability, image quality, and feature set really is the thing outside of rather strange marketing from a few of the nearly-to-market cameras. There's a lot of sensors you can buy off the shelf now as well as recording modules which has made the industrial side of things easier. Not saying that's what this is, but some are tapping into that realm and we are seeing it more and more.

To the point of the livestream, considering the many friends of Freefly I'm certain they could have had better picture and audio

Back to the camera. The Phantom Flex4K rocks a top fps of 938 and the Wave is about 400fps. The Flex4K being notably pricier, this is aiming to disrupt the market by being less expensive and more compact I think. But mainly it's compact for a tie in to their drone use cases.

I agree though. Wild ride of a year for cameras. I suspect 2021 will be similar in other directions.

 

[Misha Engel]

Who's the goof in the one hour live stream? No Mac support, yikes. Blowing out candles?? they seemed to be at a loss of why anyone would shoot slomo. Terrible roll out reel.

Looks like a bunch of these super 35 global shutter cams are coming down the pike.

You can always use the Phantom Flex4K, for all others... we have some competition in the upto 400 fps in 4k area and you don't need a Mac like you do with ARRI/Codex (HDE).
For Mac users, just use bootcamp https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201468

 

[Karim D. Ghantous]

The Wave has two notable features: E mount by default (no electronic contacts though); and Red compatible interchangeable mounts. I'd say they made very good choices.