Hey I thought I'd post this in the main forum as it's likely to be of general interest.
We've all seen the generously priced models that only give you a fraction of the visible colors and then delete most of it leaving you with a full luma channel and crippled color channels.
Now here's the surprise. This little thingy here from Aiptek actually outputs RGB, means you get a 4:4:4 image.
Try it for youself Click on the GO-HD. Then on the QuickTime LOGO actually to get the video.
So what does that leave us with? a 720p @ 30fps max. Currently there's no 1080p model. The sensor is likely to clip very easily and the lens sucks.
Now add the
RedRock Micro Canon or Nikkor kit and you have your own mini RED, well not with the quality of RAW imaging, but it blows those expensive cameras dead out of the water at a fraction of the cost.
If the M2 adapter doesn't take care of the clipping already by loss of light in the box during the shooting situation a simple ND filter will do the trick.
Also means that I lost the last bit of sympathy for camera manufacturers that cripple the image with either lossy and aged YUV channel crippling or by only giving you every other line at a single frame. This super cheap mini cam shows that better things are indeed possible if somebody switches their brain on. Guys, you're dead but not smelling it yet.
The SANYO XACTI might also work altho I haven't seen an image of it that wasn't over compressed.
The downside of working directly in 720p is that you have no oversampling effect that you can use to cover up compression artifacts like when going from 1080p down. Also upscaling will only make the artifacts bigger if you don't clean the plates up before.
So to sum it up. This is a version 1 package. If more mini companies jump on this they can literally destroy the business of the overpriced Sony, Panasonic, Canon and JVC cams.
Yes I said overpriced. If you delete parts of my image you're overpriced, no matter what you charge.
Hope I didn't get into too much of a rant
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