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Spoke to Steve Nordhauser of silicon imaging a few a days ago. He confirmed the altasens camera would be available in around 5-6 weeks time. Pricing for the camera alone will be $4000. Even with other necessary peripherals, ethernet or camerlink, framegrabber, price should still be way under $15,000.

Possible cheap workflow? Haven't posted for a while as I have been following the contributions of the more technically knowledgeable people on this forum. I have come up with a possible low cost hd workflow solution. (feel free to respond and pick holes as any feedback is very welcome.) Hardware: Camera link camera (silicon imaging or imperx) 1920*1080 frame grabber Streampix recorder software. Suitable spec pc with either raid or number of external hard drives. Use 16mm c mount lenses bolex or sneider (or get c to f mount adaptor and use nikon 35mm?) 1. Use streampix software to record 8bit images from camera and save to hard disk/raid. Save in a file format that is compatible with both streampix and Vegas. 2. Import video files into Vegas Video 5. Here are a list of file formats acceptable, when i last checked, streampix uses at least 3-4 of these: AC-3 Dolby Digital AC-3** AIF Macintosh® AIFF AVI Microsoft® Video for Windows® BMP Windows® Bitmap GIF CompuServe Graphics Interchange Format (stills and animated) JPG Joint Picture Experts Group (JPEG) MOV Apple® QuickTime® Movie MP3 MPEG-1 Layer 3 (Audio) MPG MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Video OGG Ogg Vorbis PCA Perfect Clarity Audio? PNG Portable Network Graphics PSD Adobe® Photoshop® RM RealNetworks® RealAudio® 9 RM RealNetworks RealVideo® 9 SWF Macromedia Flash TGA Targa? File Format TIF Tagged Image File Format W64 Sony Pictures Digital Wave 64? WAV Microsoft Wave® WMA Microsoft Windows Media® 9 (Audio) WMV Microsoft Windows Media 9 (Video) Still Image Sequences (Script) Apparently Vegas 5 is resolution independant and can manage frame sizes up to 2048*2048! 1920*1080 is supported with 23.976,24,25,30 fps options. I dowloaded the trail version toady and will be web hunting for small clip samples to try. Further info can be found at "sony pictures digital" Am I missing something here or is this workable, any responce welcome. P.S. If this is workable, I also found out about a linescan dalsa camerlink camera currently in beta version that has a frame size of 2048*2048 at 30fps but can be reprogrammed to do 24p, would this be practical?

MORE NOVICE QUESTIONS As I am a writer first and foremost I am finding some of these technical terms bewildering. I originally posted on the Imperx camera a while back. I would be grateful if anyone could answer these questions as no one in the UK is interested. Regarding the Imperx camera : I'm presuming this is 4:4:4? Does this mean that if have a black magic design board which can capture this video, will it be able to output at 10bit 4:2:2? I mention this as this is the current FCP 4 max. Secondly since the interface for the camera link appears to be for PC, how will I go about getting the images into a MAC? Regarding storage, is a raid necessary? I know it wouldn't be as convenient be I have see 300gb external hard disk drives? which would give about 45min uncompressed storage per drive, if my calculations are correct. The imperx camera seems to have a c-mount as standard, which I presume means 16mm? They mention an F-mount adaptor. Does this mean I could connect Nikon F-mout stills camera lenses? In a nutshell, what equipment, file format conversion(s),software processes will be required to get the image from the camera into the NLE. (lets presume its a black magic designs capture board and its destination is Adobe premiere pro) Any opinions very welcome.

F.A.O J Jukuzami, I don't have a firm price price on the camera, I imagine it's around $4,500, though I shall be calling them soon. I seem to be only person interested in these cameras in the UK & one of the only people interested in this forum. I was quite surprised at the level of criticism you recieved after you're earlier posts. My desire is to be an owner/operator of my own HD solution. Since i have limited means I'm duty bound to explore every other possibility. If there is a strong objection to posts of this nature I would be grateful if members (who may be higher up the HD/Film food chain) would make this clear. In that case i would stick to forums such as Dvinfo.net Any responce is welcome. P.S. For J Jukuzami, would the use of a 1 inch ccd have benefits with regard to lenses and depth of field compared to a 1/2 or a 2/3 chip? Bear in mind i am from a non technical background.

I came across yet another camera the other day. SPECS: model IPC2M30HC 2 megapixel 8/10 bit HD camera progressive scan 16:9 1920*1080 resolution camera link interface Programmable: resolution, framerate (will do 24p), electronic shuttter, long intergration, external trigger, pre exposure, strobe output, gain and offset! (seems versatile!) frame rate is programmable from 15-60 fps although it can only manage a max of 33fps at 1920*1080. Uses a 1 inch progressive scan interline transfer ccd can utilise C of F mount lenses check it out at www.imperx.com Please post you're opinions. p.s. what does J Jukuzami think?

I came across yet another camera the other day. SPECS: model IPC2M30HC 2 megapixel 8/10 bit HD camera progressive scan 16:9 1920*1080 resolution camera link interface Programmable: resolution, framerate (will do 24p), electronic shuttter, long intergration, external trigger, pre exposure, strobe output, gain and offset! (seems versatile!) frame rate is programmable from 15-60 fps although it can only manage a max of 33fps at 1920*1080. Uses a 1 inch progressive scan interline transfer ccd can utilise C of F mount lenses check it out at www.imperx.com Please post you're opinions.

Only just joined this forum, based in the UK. I have the same dream of a low cost HD system as many others. I'm not nearly as technically savvy as you guys as I'm a writer first and foremost. Jesus, some of you guys sound like engineers! I've been following the new developments very closely, including kinetta, sony POV, JVC etc. over in the UK we're limited to the sony hdw750p, the sdx900, imx, cinealta. All are either too expensive or do not provide enough quality. Last week I rang a guy called Steve Nordhausen who works for silicon imaging. Within 8-12 weeks time a new camera will arrive! Here is the spec so far, forgive me if they are not detailed enough. SI-1920 HD camera. 1920*1080 3.2 megapixel at 24fps poss 23.976 as well. Single cmos chip. Will stream to computer (PC) poss USB2 connection altough serial ata configuration was hinted at. Frame grabber software will be required. Apparently 10bit and 12bit solutions are available. Images will be uncompressed. Frame grabber will be required along with another piece of software which I'm still a bit hazy on. Ready for the best bit? Camera will be approx $4000! Frame grabber $1500. Camera will apparently be compatible with 16mm bolex or sneider lenses along with others. Steve mentioned that a press release would be availble close to release which may be July! I would appreciate hearing what you guys think about this. Personally I don't think it's vapourware as they already have a 6.6megapixel camera that does the same but at different frame rates. Look forward to hearing from you guys.