KOMODO....

[Gregory Karydis]

That apoqualia I just keep ordering more of. That is what we have been testing with all week. Such a bad ass little lens and yes, it doesn't get any smaller than that.

Careful with the 3rd party smaller batteries.. they need to be able to deliver enough amps and MOST of the small cheap little 2 cell batteries we have tried wont even turn the camera on.

Meybe that's where GDU needs to step in?
And maybe a team-up with MS Optics to make a native RF Apoqualia with AF in Mil Spec???

 

[Jarred Land]

audio levels are pretty high - you got some music playing in the background ?

the speakers the camera is pointing at that are bigger than the car is probably a good clue

 

[David Groves 1]

RGB is interesting and new meter. Wondering if the days of the goal posts are gone or if we can find that tool on a different page?

 

[Jarred Land]

RGB is interesting and new meter. Wondering if the days of the goal posts are gone or if we can find that tool on a different page?

Something new I came up with because Matt's new UI has vertical blocks instead of horizontal like the old.

Still feeling it out but I think it is pretty intuitive. Over/Under per R,G,B

If you love it you can thank me later. If you hate it , then it's all Matt's fault

 

[Robert Hofmeyr]

Something new I came up with because Matt's new UI has vertical blocks instead of horizontal like the old.

Still feeling it out but I think it is pretty intuitive. Over/Under per R,G,B

If you love it you can thank me later. If you hate it , then it's all Matt's fault

I like it. But it may be useful to know where most of the light is falling. Perhaps the vertical bars can be wider where there are more pixels at that particular exposure - a bit like a vertical RGB histogram.

 

[Bob Gundu]

Something new I came up with because Matt's new UI has vertical blocks instead of horizontal like the old.

Still feeling it out but I think it is pretty intuitive. Over/Under per R,G,B

If you love it you can thank me later. If you hate it , then it's all Matt's fault

Interesting. Can the "A Cam" area have the histogram?

 

[Robert Hofmeyr]

Also loving the big red record button that doubles as camera ID, but for those of us who shoot single camera mostly, would be nice to customise what is displayed - eg record time.

 

[Jarred Land]

Interesting. Can the "A Cam" area have the histogram?

Thats the touch record button

There still is plenty of opportunity to have "normal" histograms on your external/bolt on monitor. The vertical exposure bar here is more like an extended goal post/traffic lights quick reference.

 

[Phil Holland]

Well just to throw a wrench into both of your calculations, This last week I've been playing with the Kessler Recon RC car and testing out to see what the smallest gimbal I could make work. The lens is the heaviest part.. but that top bolt on monitor just throws things off in a non-linear way when you are talking about balance with fast movements.

So I had the engineers turn on the in-camera top display preview.

Power the camera from the rig ( no batteries ) . no bolt on monitor, and a small pancake lens and it's pretty insane what starts to open up on a gimbal.

Heh. Well he asked about the setups in those pictures.

But you're not throwing a wrench in a bad way. I love what's going on with the tiny top screen.


Firmware tip/ask. When GIOSCOPE is enabled please by default have all colors set to on. In current DSMC2 firmware it defaults to black and white and thankfully remembers what values you toggle on and off.

Love the fat finger friendly camera labelled record button. Nice helper right there.

Don't know the status of Global Shutter being always on or toggle-able. If so, it might be handy to have "G" or "R" next to the word Shutter on the Shutter Angle/Shutter Speed.

Magnify needs some love and I suspect Komodo can support this. I think in settings or via multi taps we should have 50% and 100% punch in and it would be slick to be able to move the box for sure while punched in. Sometimes people don't need to be 1:1 pixel to lock critical focus. This also helps with smaller screens and just general focusing stuff.

The new meters are interesting and I think clever from what little I can tell from the screen shot.

I like the revised button size for general settings.

Everybody is all jazzed about the ISO 5000, but I am much more interesting in what's going on with the screen on the right hand side

If possible and not to give you much more work, please integrate a goto mark with the AF motors. I don't know how precise the new RF stuff is, but the motors are more advanced. I'd love to have the ability to press mark A and go to mark A, then to be or whatever. Likely up to 4 key frames. And if possible some sort of setting to control rack time and easing.

Actually easing has been on my mind a lot lately with current AF designs being a fair bit aggressive.

I don't personally have the ability to manufacture and support an LCD display, but whoever can make a fold down flush articulated screen that also protects the camera topside would be welcome. Similar to the DSMC2 screens except folding down to the form factor of Komodo's width and length. Still a tiny screen, but articulation is key for run and gun filming. Hoping for at least 720p or 1080p out of that if possible at that size.

Don't know the price of the camera yet, but the Hydrogen discount is $1000 off of whatever that price turns out to be.

That's actually insanely good.

 

[Colton John McLaughlin]

Will GDU be offering AKS for Stormtrooper in white and gold?

 

[Jarred Land]

If possible and not to give you much more work, please integrate a goto mark with the AF motors. I don't know how precise the new RF stuff is, but the motors are more advanced. I'd love to have the ability to press mark A and go to mark A, then to be or whatever. Likely up to 4 key frames. And if possible some sort of setting to control rack time and easing.

On that photo I just posted you can see a little slice of my phone in the corner and on that phone is displaying a full page of pretty incredible PDAF feedback as those focus pixels are now alive and well. It is pretty mesmerizing watching the raw data come in from what they are capturing and the mind starts to wander thinking about all the possibilities with what we can do with that... What you ask we actually already have coded and in DMSC2, it is just the contrast AF in DSMC2 sucked so bad that it never really works that well. PDAF will make that code so much more useful.

But as I said before, It's going to take a while before we do a real deep dive into phase detect autofocus, too many other more important things to dig into right now. When I put up my hands and yell "AF AF AF!" , Uday is quick to slap me and remind me that we have only spent about 1 engineering man year of development with PDAF so far and Canon has about 2000 man years combined. So quite honestly... we have some catching up to do. I'd bet money that we wont have PDAF at launch .

 

[Bob Gundu]

Thats the touch record button

There still is plenty of opportunity to have "normal" histograms on your external/bolt on monitor. The vertical exposure bar here is more like an extended goal post/traffic lights quick reference.

Ah right on. So curious how advanced the internal boards are? Also, weather protection on previous RED cameras have been pretty amazing. I have myself used my cameras in the desert and blistering winters. We've already seen Matt using the Komodo in the snow. How was the testing in hot climate?

 

[Mike P.]

The vertical exposure bar here is more like an extended goal post/traffic lights quick reference.

Really dig that concept, presuming it's based off raw data and not influenced by metadata influenced (like the stop lights and goal posts). Any chance we'll see it in DSMC1/2 (if it works as it seems, it could quickly becoming the standard)?

 

[Curran Giddens]

Don't know the price of the camera yet, but the Hydrogen discount is $1000 off of whatever the price turns out to be.

Very generous. Thank you!

 

[Ketch Rossi]

Don't know the price of the camera yet, but the Hydrogen discount is $1000 off of whatever that price turns out to be.

The global supply chain issues wont change the amount of the Hydrogen discount, it just will likely affect the price of the limited run of pre-launch StormTroopers. As we sit, (and don't quote me or I will ban you best case is the stormtrooper costs $900 more, worst case they cost $1400 more if our vendor needs to pull out and move and that would hopefully just add a week to the very fragile 12 week stormtrooper target.

First of all THANK YOU!!

That is a very generous discount, and very glad that while I did sold my H1 Gate housing, I did not sold the H1s

On the Stormtrooper cost I actually am surprised, as I tough it would have been at list double that!

So if I do need one or two (if allowed to buy more then one per person) at the time they become available, I will buy in...

But if it is just to have a Stormtrooper without an immediate need of use, then I would wait for the regular run and get my H1s discount in, which would make it also couple of ks cheaper

 

[Luke Marcus Rosen]

Re: stormtrooper; we are paying for the slick lick of white paint, as well as bragging rights - first dibs? Right?

Does anyone know if stormtrooper camera bodies have been sold second-hand years later for higher than normal prices?

 

[Ketch Rossi]

Re: stormtrooper; we are paying for the slick lick of white paint, as well as bragging rights - first dibs? Right?

That and the fact that as Jarred pointed out making a more limited number of camera run costs more money.

Does anyone know if stormtrooper camera bodies have been sold second-hand years later for higher than normal prices?

Yes I have, but that has also depended on demand, so you just can not count on been able to sale it for more money, especially when the regular run is released shortly after.

But it is possible yes.

 

[Jarred Land]

Really dig that concept, presuming it's based off raw data and not influenced by metadata influenced (like the stop lights and goal posts). Any chance we'll see it in DSMC1/2 (if it works as it seems, it could quickly becoming the standard)?

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Both.. you get RGB ( bars ) and RAW ( stop lights ) . but you also get an additional set of stop lights on the bottom so you can see both under and over clip in the raw. The bars give you RGB.

Re: stormtrooper; we are paying for the slick lick of white paint, as well as bragging rights - first dibs? Right?

First-Production samples of anything almost always cost more... no matter what you are making. There is usually lots of machined and post-machined tooled parts before the tooling gets tweaked, expedited runs of small run boards etc. The paint is the least of the added expense.

 

[Jarred Land]

Is there going to be the capability to genlock and sync the Komodo??

of course...

 

[Nik Harper]

Well just to throw a wrench into both of your calculations, This last week I've been playing with the Kessler Recon RC car and testing out to see what the smallest gimbal I could make work. The lens is the heaviest part.. but that top bolt on monitor just throws things off in a non-linear way when you are talking about balance with fast movements.

So I had the engineers turn on the in-camera top display preview.

Power the camera from the rig ( no batteries ) . no bolt on monitor, and a small pancake lens and it's pretty insane what starts to open up on a gimbal.

Loving the Hydrogen discount and loving the preview of the screen and more UI. The under/over meter actually looks like something I'll like better even though I'm used to the traffic lights/goalposts.