Freefly, manufacturer of professional drones, gimbals, and other filmmaking tools introduced a very interesting product: the Freefly Wave High-Speed Camera. Its small form factor makes it perfect for drone use, which it was designed for, but it’s an exciting camera to be used handheld on a gimbal or as a crash cam as well. Wave in a Nutshell The Wave is a S35 (APS-C) camera with a locking E-mount inside a 6061-grade aluminum housing (150mm x 97mm x 47mm, 716g). Because of the shallow flange depth, a ton of lenses can be adapted to fit the camera. However, it seems to be a mechanical E-mount only. Mounting hardpoints on all sides of the housing should make rigging the 716g (without lens) camera easy. Data is transferred off the camera via a USB-C highspeed port next to a full-size HDMI socket and the power terminal conveniently located on the right side of the camera body. Freefly Systems “Wave” with an E-mount lens. Image Credit: Freefly Systems There is no display built into the body, but the HDMI port lets you connect any suitable video monitor. How high-speed can it shoot? Frame rates go up to 420 fps in 4K, and up to 1440 fps in 2K. The Wave uses a built-in NVME SSD for storage, and the 2TB version allows for 35min of recording time at the above frame rates. The NVME storage is apparently user-exchangeable. So when larger certified drives are available, recording capacity can be increased. Right now it...
Published By: CineD - Thursday, 8 October, 2020