D21 Cypress 'Oscar' CMOS

[Zalfa Chamoun]

Hi there,

 

I'm looking for an estimate of how much the Cypressa 'Oscar' CMOS would cost Arri?

 

Anyone have an idea?

 

Cheers,

 

Zalfa

[georg lamshöft]

As you might imagine, nobody (except ARRI/Cypress) can say that for sure.

 

Kodak priced CCDs (@ the size of Super35) with approx. 650$ - architectures that are produced many thousand times. That's the point of costs in silicon technology: It's not the material and manufacturing itself, it's R&D and investments in the fab.

The D21/Arriscan uses a custom-designed architecture developed by Frauenhofer in which quantity? 1000? How many sensors do they have to throw away to get a perfect one? Panavision said they need 600 Sony-sensors to get one for their Genesis? This is professional equipment not something that has to work most of time to satisfy most customers.

 

So what? My guess: A few hundred Euros for one sensor, paying for fab/R&D/selection - propably 10-50 times as much!?

 

Your question was: Do they buy chinese electronics for a few Euros, print ARRI on it, sell it for 150000€ and laugh at stupid customers willing to pay for a name when they could sell it RED-style for 130000€ less? Am I right? I don't think so.