RED have embroiled a lot of the camera industry in legal action over the years. One of these companies is Atomos. Since the Nikon buyout of RED, controversial ex-CEO of Atomos, Jeromy Young has returned to head the company. In a PR statement from Melbourne titled “Atomos Welcomes Nikon Acquisition of RED”, a lot of enthusiastic noises were made. Why?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuNtv5M10n8 EOSHD on YouTube is back. In this video we discover Jeromy Young mysteriously vanished after a Wallabies Rugby match and that the company has a new CEO from Apple. EOSHD looks into where he went to, with this story of super yachts, coronavirus hotspots and why I’ll never buy another Atomos product.
Comment on the forum Panasonic S1H owners today can start recording in high-end cinema camera standard 6K 12bit ProRes RAW via HDMI to the Atomos Ninja V. Unlike many ProRes RAW HDMI outputs this one is a full pixel readout from a native 6K sensor, with dual gain circuitry and incredible low light performance. Most cameras have to pixel bin to achieve 12 bit colour depth in their 4K RAW…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joPtOgG9SeY&feature=emb_title Comment on the forum Above you can see an advert for RAW on the S1H shot in my home town of Manchester. Coincidentally these streets were where I shot with the Panasonic GH1 for the first time. I have fond memories of 10 years ago in the months leading up to EOSHD’s first blog post, taking my GH1 out on the same streets as featured in the Atomos video.…
Comment on the forum The Nikon Z6 RAW video update has been a shambles from start to finish. With myself a disappointed early adopter of both the Z6 and Z7, the story isn’t reflecting well on Nikon…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ20yQhMYx4 Comment on the forum It’s common knowledge in the camera industry that RED owns an important patent for a cinema cameras featuring compressed RAW. Now British third party accessory manufacturer Jinni Tech alleges RED “deceived the US patent office” and filed the critical patent late.
Comment on the forum I’d like to give you an idea of what it’s like being a Nikon mirrorless camera owner…
Comment on the forum Convincing rumours are doing the rounds in the filmmaking community, thanks to a slip by Canon USA on Twitter. The official account offered a poll asking whether followers would like to learn more about Canon EOS R external RAW recording at NAB, or the C200’s existing RAW Light codec. https://twitter.com/DaveMaze_/status/1111486780212011008