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  • #11
    Originally posted by DeepDayze View Post
    Hopefully we'll soon see the first films made with these cameras and perhaps blockbuster ones. If these cameras are easy to use and maintain as well as having parts easy to obtain (or make) then movie studios should become interested enough to purchase enough of these cameras to make this endeavor worthwhile. Perhaps something like this can be useful for crowdfunding development of even high-end audio systems for example.

    I seriously doubt that someone would buy one of these cameras to support a tight production schedule. I can see them purchased for experimentation though. The other thing is I would expect this sort of a project to have a very very long development cycle to get to the point of producing studio quality results. That isn't to slight the team, just that this is a rather involved project.

    In any event interesting as it is, the camera is no where near my budget! It does make me wonder if they would sell the electronics separately.

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    • #12
      Originally posted by DeepDayze View Post
      Hopefully we'll soon see the first films made with these cameras and perhaps blockbuster ones. If these cameras are easy to use and maintain as well as having parts easy to obtain (or make) then movie studios should become interested enough to purchase enough of these cameras to make this endeavor worthwhile. Perhaps something like this can be useful for crowdfunding development of even high-end audio systems for example.
      One short movie was done with the "ancestor" of the Axiom - and Elphel 354 camera, when apertus community was following the way to develop a pro camera from industrial an open source Elphel camera. Movie: Floresta Vermelha was made by one Brazilian member of the apertus team at this time (Flavio Soares) and you see all the detail of the making off and the movie (with English subtitles) here >>> http://florestavermelha.org/making-of/

      For the people interested Flavio has also created some plugins to use Blender as a video editor a more "smooth" way!

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      • #13
        Originally posted by wizard69 View Post
        I seriously doubt that someone would buy one of these cameras to support a tight production schedule. I can see them purchased for experimentation though. The other thing is I would expect this sort of a project to have a very very long development cycle to get to the point of producing studio quality results. That isn't to slight the team, just that this is a rather involved project.

        In any event interesting as it is, the camera is no where near my budget! It does make me wonder if they would sell the electronics separately.
        Philip Bloom (http://philipbloom.net/) and Robert Schaeffer (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0769656/) are among the contributors of the crowdfunding campaign and have paid for a camera. I don't think they made it only for fun or just curiosity. This camera can make movies without a doubt and Axiom Beta is the early stage to a better camera to come Axiom Gamma.

        apertus? is a company and an association and a community (see https://www.apertus.org/for more information- they surely have less money than Sony or Rec, no R&D but they have brilliant persons, a goal and have made digital 4K camera from scratch - just enough for professionals to be more than interested on a camera where they could have finally, a total power.

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