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The future of HD film-making is on the way. Silicon Imaging and Cineform, together with our company, Atomic-VFX, are busy at the moment shooting a feature film, entitled “Spoonâ€ÂÂ, on a HD camera that is implementing a system never before used. The SI-1920HDVR combines a digital cinema class 1920x1080P camera with CineForm’s revolutionary Visually Perfect®CineForm RAW™codec in an embedded PC architecture under Microsoft Windows® XP. The camera is connected directly to the computer, so expensive tape stock is no longer an issue. It is also possible to attach a 160GB notebook hard drive to the camera for up to 4 hours of free-roaming shooting. The camera uses modern cinema PL mount lenses, as well as affordable F and compact C mount lenses that is connected to a single large format 2/3†CMOS sensor with an on-chip 12-bit A/D converter. This is then fed through wire into a ‘wafian’ box and into the PC. Originally developed for the independent film maker the camera provides superb image quality at a low cost. With release during the third quarter of the year the camera is costing in the area of only $20 000. Still in the Beta phase of development, but already exceeding everyones expectations, the SI-1920HDVR is the camera for the future of HD filming. For an up to date account of the filming, visit http://www.indiefilmlive.blogspot.com or for more technical information visit http://www.siliconimaging.com/phpBB/index.php or simply comment on this post.
Sounds interesting…nice production blog as well.
Keep us updated.Hi Francois,
Welcome to fxguide ! Atomic’s concept of pulling HD-SDI off HDV cameras direct to disk has already got two thumbs up on this forum 😀Hope it’s warmer in the Mother City than it is in Joburg, hell it’s freezing up here !!
Regards to all the crew at Atomic-VFX and keep up the innovative ideas.
cheers
chris – touchvision.
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