@Vitaliy_Kiselev

Thanks for doing the detective work. So far it looks like Bolex are standing back, making comments only by email.

It looks great at first sight.

The Digital Bolex is a “digital cinema camera” or a camera that shoots RAW images (sometimes known as Digital Negatives) instead of compressed video.

What I was wondering is how they get it to write 12 bit 4:4:4 RAW data to a CF card!? They state it will be 3 MB per frame, so the would need a (lossless!) compression ratio of about 4:1 as well as really fast cards that support av. write speed of about 100MB/s. Is that even possible?

What I was wondering is how they get it to write 12 bit 4:4:4 RAW data to a CF card!? They state it will be 3 MB per frame, so the would need a (lossless!) compression ratio of about 1:4 as well as really fast cards that support av. write speed of about 100MB/s. Is that even possible? ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Wasn't that the quandry of the A cam? I think they designed and produced there own propriety CF type card to solve it.

what i found about that guy Stylianos Derventzis it looks like he has patents in optics and signal processing .... he is probably head and that two are just front .... cool looking hipsters to make all this sexy ... Internet makes spy work easy :)

The hardware to shoot 1080p raw can't cost more than $1000 these days.

A Canon A1200 cost $100 new(now $80). Shoots great 720p at 24fps, 12.1 megapixles CCD. The stills look great. How much more hardware would it take to get that cam to shoot 1080p raw? It can't be more than $1000, including the cam.

The biggest problem with this is...how much better is this gonna be vs a hacked GH2? The footage doesn't look 3x better to me....looks about the same.

If this thing was not american, with all the flaws in terms of communication (No prototype, demo shots done on another camera, etc) everybody would have said it is a scam. Again I hope I am not right, but seeing people already acting like fan-boys on xxx when I say the DR is plain ugly.

I'm very surprised none of the backers are even requesting any DNGs. If they're making their decisions based on specs and Vimeo videos, that's just like purchasing a car solely looking at a classified ad- not even seeing the car in person nor testing driving it.

If I was Philip Bloom I would have been a bit more cautious before backing so much an unknown entity without too much research.

I think it is very good example how hysteria and emotions can took other.
How some bloggers are completely not responsible for their words (as usual). No analisis, critical thinking.

There´s a good chance, Mr.Bloom is "invested" soemhow. I never trust this guy.He makes his living out of sponsorship and NOT filming.

@vladnik

Thing is that they are not developing network camera with Ethernet ports from ready kit.
They are making SDI output, viewfinder, some buffers, high speed CF cards outputs.
I absolutely do not see how one man or even small team can make it in such short time.

It is interesting to note that such project is not new. Ideas to get sensor and all electronics from industrial cameras and rebrand them or just attach computer to network camera appear on all major forums and blogs for years. And such small niche projects with real prototypes exist. But all of them lacked coordinated, good funded marketing company.

@VK: "It is interesting to note that such project is not new. Ideas to get sensor and all electronics from industrial cameras and rebrand them or just attach computer to network camera appear on all major forums and blogs for years."

One only has to look at SI2K to see the proof that this 'has' happened. However Silicon Image actually 'make' scientific cameras... so they know what they are doing adding other things... (and for the cutdown version just add laptop!)

There was another company 'Sumix' with there SMX12a2c (I believe) that they were intending to do the same thing with... however they didn't want to do the 'cinema transformation' work themselves... (Trivia: Sumix use the same family of sensors that SI2K use-one version down...)

Oh well... we are so close to these 'scientific' companies being blown out of the water...

I'm going to try to do this myself. But not to sell it to people. I just want to create a proof of concept system, using an off the shelf prosilica 1920gt or gx. I have been talking to the guys who make this camera, and they too said to be wary. But, their cameras are interesting. For $3900 you get the camera. The software is $1000. You have to record to a laptop. They can use c mount, or factory convert to nikon or canon. But here is the nice thing...1920x1080 progressive ccd (global shutter...supposedly superior and low or no jello/rolling shutter)....240mbs...multiple raw codecs, uncompressed codecs, dng. Thats one bad a$$ cam. I'm still researching it. I have a job coming up that might pay for the setup. I have requested raw footage to figure out the camera capabilities. I will let you know how that goes.