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Sony BURANO Camera Teased

Kemalettin Sert said:
I have seen the Burano CVP video and yes also their Vraptor videos they dont create something flashy like The Killer.

Burano offers the technology that Red won't offer in the next 10 years.
Built-in ND filters with clear option right in front of the sensor without even needing a 4K $ mount or any other bad side products? Yeah, i call that innovation sorry.
IS sensor? Sorry, that's not gonna happen with Red until the 2040s.
Plus Burano crushes any other camera in shadows in high iso mode (3200 base) sorry you are not there with V Raptor.
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Kemalettin you may very well be right about IBIS not arriving anytime soon to RED cameras but I don't see that as being an issue.

RED, like most cinema cameras, is mainly designed with post production in mind with the aim of acquiring the best image and associated data possible for
processing and refining later.
While IBIS is cool development particularly for a workflow with a quicker turnaround (i.e broadcast) it's also a somewhat destructive process in that it alters (motion and frame wise) what the sensor captures. Some might be fine with that but I can see filmmakers actually turning off IBIS for this reason with a preference for refining stabilization in post.

With the use of the gyro data one can definitely do very good stabilization with RED cameras.


I know David Fincher is kind of at the extreme with that approach.


Don't know how good IBIS is on the Burano but it's my understanding that using gyro data can yield better and arguably more controllable results.

Burano "crushing" other cameras or at least V-Raptor in noise is TBD.
V-Raptor is among the best I've seen of any camera having a naturally low noise (sans noise reduced) RAW image.

I do know that there is built in noise reduction featured in Burano which most DPs would rather turn off as it is a destructive process that in this case is known to screw around with skin tones among other things if done to an extreme.
There was a quick test by CVP but it was hard to tell how the 2 cameras compared as that part of the test went by so fast without a side by side to make a definitive judgment. The CVP presenter did mention V-Raptor having"better tone"underexposed.

The images I'm seeing from Burano do look great like any of Sony's other Cine Alta cameras.
It does still have some Sony characteristics that I'm not the biggest fan of namely the perceived presence of some artificial sharpening that gives a slight "electronic facade" to the image.
Could be my imagination but I often felt that there is something in Sony's image engineering culture that is reluctant to let a sensor stand on it's own without some kind of internal image sharpening.

The VF on Burano seems to be getting panned quite a bit. Perhaps something to consider with the long development time on the DSMC 3 VF.

Whatever the case, I've been busy going through some KX footage for an upcoming project and damn I'm impressed.

Brian Timmons
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Sony BURANO Tutorial Videos​


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Sony BURANO Tutorial Videos - Newsshooter

Sony has released the first two tutorials in a series of videos for anyone who has pre-ordered a BURANO or is thinking of purchasing one.
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Tutorial #1 | Camera Configuration | BURANO | Sony | CineAlta​



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Tutorial #2 | Scan Modes and Codecs | BURANO | Sony | CineAlta​



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Tutorial #3 | Lens, Stabilisation and Variable ND Filter | BURANO | Sony | CineAlta​

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Tutorial #4 | Fast Hybrid AF | BURANO | Sony | CineAlta​



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Sony Burano in depth review by Ray Kay(with bts, color grading, breakdown)​

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Sony BURANO delayed due to technical/calibration issue​


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Sony Burano: 8K 16 Bit Sony RAW, Autofocus, Skintones, IBIS, Looks, Slowmo ...​

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PERG Coffee Break - Sony Burano Mini Masterclass​



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[PODCAST] - Sony Burano - Changing the way we shoot cinema? // AMT Podcast Series with Razan Takash​

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Emerging Perspectives | Valentine Lequet, UCO | ZEISS Nano Primes​

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Sony Burano: The In Depth Comparison Review​

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Burano vs. FX3 | Quick & Dirty Comparison​



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Zeiss Nano Primes + Sony Burano: Day / Night Shoot ... T1.5​

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Sony Burano | Lens Shootout​



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Introducing the LeftField Sony BURANO System​

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Now that many reviews and tests have been out for a little while with the Burano
the specs and observations seem to epitomize my long time frustrations with Sony and to a
certain extent the way features are packaged with camera manufactures (particularly
from Sony, Canon, and to a somewhat lesser extent Panasonic among others).


The review above does a decent job discussing this as it relates to the Burano particularly with the rants in the middle and end.

I often get a feeling an aspect of Sony's product design and engineering is creatively packaging limitations along with enhancements and features.

At the low end this approach is somewhat understandable but at the price range Burano hits it inspires distrust
particularly if the people buying these products are purchasing them for business and to make a career and a living.

I remember before investing in a RED One (2007 or seemingly 1500ad in camera years) how frustrated I was with all of the camera offerings at that time as none of them seemed to offer a truly complete feature set that did not seem deliberately compromised.

It's like a tortuous shell game of features where the manufacturer designs the camera less with use case in mind
and more with managing the price tiers.

In the end you end up with a camera with odd spec limitations and design choices that make the camera always feel somewhat incomplete.

It could be argued that any camera manufacturer if not business offering products does this but some are a bit more "prolific" than others.

Firmware could perhaps fix some of Burano's issues (i.e rolling shutter, inconsistent output options, perhaps free hardware update to the OLPF for IR issues) but I have my doubts Sony's historic corporate culture would do this perhaps saving it for a Mark 2 version.
Maybe I might come across a Burano on a gig but I think many buying this camera are going heavily by the Sony name and
not doing their homework.

I respect Sony. They definitely made one of the 1st big steps with Digital Cinema with the F900 and continued up to Venice 2.

I've been shooting with Sony cameras for over a couple of decades now.
I have great respect for just how deep and wide their sensor tech is among many other things they offer as a company.

Despite Sony's heritage in filmmaking there are certain product tendencies they historically have that should be questioned.

Brian Timmons
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