Francois Huysamen

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Don't be snooty, I'm talking about the camera for those who care about camera's. It's giving us the oppurtunity to make a feature film on a independent budget, i.e. very small, but still enablign us to give high end result. And of course the script is good, how else do we get the little funding we got. It's not like in South Africa you can make a film about anything and get supported. We are still ateeped in racial history and most funding goes to film projects that reflect that. Do you know anything about HD or what?

Well, where to start? You are recording direct to disk, so no more expensive tape stock. Using CineForm RAW wavelet compressionso it's still 10-bit, it's integrated with the Adobe Software, so there's no need to render to start editing. The camera head can be seperated from the body, so it's basically just a lens and the CMOS chip, thus you can get any angle you want. Very neat: you are using FILM lenses on an HD camera, we get a depth of field up to arounf 1.4 meters. There's a lot more, check out the blog. You should look at the footage, it's great: it looks like HD, just nice and soft, but still crystal clear...

I know some of you might allready know about this, but still if you don't, check it out. Silicon Imaging has let us use the prototypes of their new SI-1920HDVR to shoot our feature film, entitled SPOON. The film tracks the life of a man with an unusual medical condition that causes him to black out during moments of extreme stress. The condition leads him to make a remarkable discovery about himself that sets in motion events that changes his life. Most exciting is the camera's, they are incredible and we can't stop talking about them. If you want to see what's up, take a look at our weblog at www.indiefilmlive.blogspot.com and tell me what you think. There are some pictures and video clips as well.

I know Jason has already told everyone on the forum about the camera, but that was still before NAB and there has been a lot happening with it since then. For starters, I am working for Inspired Minority Pictures and we are busy using the camera on our feature film shoot in Cape Town, South Africa. To say the least these camera's are AWESOME. I suggest you take a look at our weblog at www.indiefilmlive.blogspot.com to get up to date info. There are some pictures of the camera in action and some video clips. For those new to the camera I will just tell you a bit about it here: The SI-1920HDVR combines a digital cinema class 1920x1080P camera with CineForm's revolutionary Visually Perfectｮ 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. What do you all think?