A few teething problems, but this is genius.....pure genius: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WX58CZwyiU On a more serious note, here is the MIT approach to a First World problem: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67H1eZBHiDQ
I love that you know what raw is! I'm really excited for this camera and all the new cameras coming out featuring raw. Canon finally got around to coming up with an EOS raw video codec and between blackmagic and digital bolex (pretty much the same camera, though personally I think the blackmagic looks like the stronger of the two) we should see a huge surge in consumer raw!!!
I like cameras a lot. I'm not usually the one who does the shooting in my little film group, but I do a lot of the editing, at least on the music videos and such. And raw just gives you so many options in post, so you can really just focus on lighting and framing while shooting. Definitely glad to see that being the new push. I think the only thing tough will be how cropped the sensors are. I've gotten a little spoiled about that from using my friends 5d. And I agree, I think the Black Magic has a bit more potential. All the metadata stuff, multiple xlr ins, and the lens compatibility, along with raw, just make it sound like it'd be really easy to work with. And without the aliasing problems of DSLRs. Fingers crossed it's as good as it looks.
Yeah the small sensor size is the one criticism I have with the camera as well, but it's better to look at it as 16mm film vs 35mm film. It's just a different aesthetic, and it will be great for deep focus stuff, so you can still cut to your friends 5d for those super shallow depth of field shots. I'm a camera nerd and I spend way to much of my time keeping up with the new tech. This generation is exciting, but more so because of what it means for the next generation of cameras to be released.
I'm just happy that video gear is not too far behind recording, as far as making things more accessible to everyone. There is a threshold with equipment that I always look for. It's when it reaches the point where your product doesn't immediately feel amateur solely because of your gear. Because once it gets there, and it's in a semi-affordable range, you can focus on what actually makes a piece of art any good. My favorite thing about the quality of my recording equipment is that I no longer consider it. When I'm making a record, I'm concerned with my point, the songwriting and performances. I'm not getting frustrated with the sound quality, or getting too stuck what my gear can and can't do. And of course there's nicer stuff out there. But there will always be nicer stuff. In the end, we don't listen to equipment. So it's exciting to me when it gets to a level of quality that I can forget about it, and I'm no longer spending so much energy overcoming the shortcomings. I think cameras are in that spot now. It's what I'm most excited about with all the new tech stuff, just knowing that I can ignore it.
^ I totally agree with your point of view on art Ben and am quite surprised you think that way. The easier the tech stuff gets, the more people have a chance to actually create, and we can therefore have a chance to conteplate art that would have otherwise never been around. I think this happened already with music recording to a point, and from what I see (hear), its rather positive. Also what I love about the blackmagic cinema camera is that its compatible with Canon lenses. On another note, this is not quite an invention but its kind of unique and new. At least to me. Dream Theater's keybordist is playing a live show on there. From what you've said before about not liking to travel much and touring, I think this is right up your alley Ben. http://www.stageit.com/
Not quite sure if this counts as an invention but I can't find a better place to put it: http://shipadrift.com/ & http://twitter.com/shipadrift Essentially there's a hotel in London that has a boat ontop of it. The boat is a one-room space used for various functions. This guy, James Bridle, erected a weather sensor next to the boat that monitors changing weather conditions, including wind. The sensor relays information to a computer program which then tracks the theoretical movements of the boat if it were free to sail. This first link, is a map of everywhere the ship has been and where it currently is. The second link is the boat's Twitter feed. Bridle has set up what is essentially a spambot to research information about where it is in the world at that moment and give automatic updates. He gives a really good talk on this and a load of other tech-y things if anyone's interested: http://videos.liftconference.com/video/4823292/we-fell-in-love-in-a-coded
