Is it possible to get 5K 100 fps with the minimags?

[Christoffer Glans]

I'm wondering if it's possible in a future update to increase the fps from 96fps to 100fps in 5K. The 96fps is creating a huge problem when filming in environments with practical lights here in Europe.
With the mini-mags the data rate is larger so the media bandwidth cap shouldn't be a problem, what is it that makes it impossible to achieve 100fps?

 

[Jake Wilganowski]

dragon does 6k 100, I assume you are referring to MX?

 

[Christoffer Glans]

I understand that this section (Epic) is dedicated to the MX version of Epic, since Dragon has it's own up top.
But yes, the MX. It's a shame I need to lower the frame rate pretty much to get it to work with practical lights, especially street lights.

 

[Andre W.]

5K 2:1 should allow for 100fps on an EPIC-Mysterium-X, beyond that, I believe FPS is going to be a limitation really of internal processing vs card speed. Card speed will allow for you to dump data faster, thus allowing for larger data to be dumped onto the card. So Less Compression is the key there.

 

[Björn Benckert]

I think that the fps is set by the output from the sensor not the size / type of mag. So the benefit of minimags is the possibility to use less compression at a given framerate and not giving you a higher pixel count.
At least thats how I understood that it works.

 

[Christoffer Glans]

Yeah, I got the minimags and they do enable an extra step or two of less compression. This is good when doing high speed work because the old mags tend to land on around 12:1 which is quite high. Now I can do 9:1 or 8:1 at around 96fps.

Because of that I was thinking that with more compression you would be able to do higher frame rates; like if I were to do 100fps at 8:1 which is impossible I should be able to use 9:1 and achieve it.
Feels like there's so few frames between 96fps and 100fps :001_huh:

 

[Max M.]

agreed, would be really nice to have 100 fps instead of 96, i really hoped the dragon update would increase these 4 frames extra, hope red somehow finds a way in firmware. I would be fine with a 5.8k mode or something that allows for 16:9 100fps, would something like that be possible, Just crop enough from the sensor for those 4 extra frames?