New HDR camera promo

[Zach Gray]

http://vimeo.com/24700695

Just hit Giz. Some of the tonemapping is pretty raunchy, but it's cool to see this development. The beamsplitter idea has been around for a while, glad to see someone is doing something with it. Obviously not in the Epic category, but it will be an interesting point of comparison.

AMP site

The cam looks like a box at this point. We'll see what happens.

Looking forward to Monstro.

 

[Zakaree Sandberg]

im gunna quit watching content if people start using HDR...

 

[Jake Bastian]

Gross. I'll stick to HDRx thanks. There wasn't a single image in that promo that looked pleasing to me...

 

[Silas Kyler]

Everything about that video looks bad. Who wants their video to look like that?

 

[Brad Webb]

wow. that is awful.

 

[Zach Gray]

In the ACM presentation, the mentioned being able to collect real world iradiance values for the scene. That could be very useful for VFX environment based lighting with interactive effects.

 

[Omar Saad]

I assumed you guys were being a little mean until I watched the clips. It looks like a filmmaker trying to stylize an acid trip from a movie in the early 90's.

 

[Jonathan Stevenson]

uke:

 

[Justin Kirchhoff]

wow, that looked like shit.

 

[Greg M]

the video looks like it was produced in 1980, the camera body looks like its from the 70's

 

[Sanjin Jukic]

From the Fall last year you can buy 4K HDR enabled off-the-shelf image sensor from TowerJazz, a company in Israel and then go yourself to develop a new camera if you have enough money and interest for that sort of hard business.

In the future everyone is a camera maker yourself.

ANTWERP, Belgium and MIGDAL HAíEMEK, Israel, November 4, 2010 CMOSIS, a leading independent developer and supplier of high end CMOS image sensors for professional imaging applications,
and TowerJazz, the global specialty foundry leader, today announced CMOSIS will add a new member to its CMV CMOS image sensor family at VISION 2010: the 12-megapixel CMV12000.
The off-the-shelf image sensor is manufactured in TowerJazzís Fab- 2 in Migdal Haemek, using its advanced 0.18 μm specialty CIS process. The sensor features 5.5 x 5.5 μm pixels laid out in
a high-resolution 4096 x 3072 matrix resembling the APS-C format. CMV12000 offers high sensitivity and low noise, global shutter and a frame rate of 300 fps which provides best in-class performance.

...........


The CMOSIS technology portfolio contains crucial IP related to various advanced aspects of image sensors ñ among them high pixel counts at a high fill factor, high-speed functionality,
large bit-depth of column ADCs, high dynamic range (HDR), TDI (time-delay and integration) implementation in CMOS and novel rad-hard pixel concepts.

LINK>>>

 

[Robert Frank]

I can see some potential here, and it's good to see efforts out there to bring new ideas to fruition but.... after viewing that promo I don't feel so good... :nonod:

The images are very unnatural looking.

 

[Eki Halkka]

im gunna quit watching content if people start using HDR...

Replace "using" with "abusing"... HDR is a great tool that can, like other tools, be used also for evil.

It all boils down to the conversion from the HDRI (which is just an image with a high captured dynamic range) to the viewable footage. It can be done in a subtle and pleasing way, with natural looking results - or in an ugly way, like most tone mapping examples out there (including that video).

 

[Roberto Lequeux]

Keep in mind that they are selling the camera, not color grading services.

Replace "using" with "abusing"... HDR is a great tool that can, like other tools, be used also for evil.

Yes. Thank you.

 

[paulherrin]

these aren't the droids you're looking for... move along.

 

[Zakaree Sandberg]

Replace "using" with "abusing"... HDR is a great tool that can, like other tools, be used also for evil.
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maybe im just getting old.. but, i just cant respect HDR.. I cant respect "dps" who rely on HDR instead of lighting properly..

1 is an art form.. the other is straight up laziness and incompetence.

sure there is benefits.. if your shooting a documentary in some deep cave somewhere..
otherwise I havent found ANY type of HDR to be a pleasing image...

 

[Roberto Lequeux]

Zak... it is in fact you that is being disrespectful, by generalizing. You are lumping everyone into one group, those who "depend on" instead of utilize the tool.

otherwise I havent found ANY type of HDR to be a pleasing image...

Most likely because you couldn't tell it was.

 

[Zakaree Sandberg]

could be.
put it this way.. i havent seen any example of HDR that i knew was HDR that i thought looked legit.
technology is getting better so i dont plan on feeling this way forever.

this video just made me want to throw up


and, wasnt trying to be disrespectful of anyone.
I just KNOW that one day, when readily available, people are going to be non stop using HDR, and that makes me sad for the art

 

[Eki Halkka]

Most likely because you couldn't tell it was.

Exactly.

 

[Robert Frank]

Keep in mind that they are selling the camera, not color grading services.

Of course you can't judge a book by its cover.

BUT it's the best way to sell one.