Comments on: A Digital Cinema Camera That Shoots 2K Raw for $3300? The Digital Bolex D16 Aims High

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 23:08:33 +0000

This is exciting!!! Image quality is stunning and the price point is just right!! I’ll be placing my order soon.

By: Christian Anderson

Christian Anderson — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 17:54:37 +0000

Chris is talking about the A-cam DII. It’s digital, not film, but recreates the look of Super 16mm. It has a CCD sensor with global shutter and records information directly from the sensor to RAW with no image processing in between.

No, it does not produce a 5D-like image but thanks for the laugh. Visit the Ikonoskop page for more info. Personally, the DII is my dream camera but the cost is too high and everything is proprietary on it.

By: Digital Bolex Reveals Final Design for the D16 RAW Camera, First Units to Ship This Quarter - NoFilmSchool

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 23:53:31 +0000

[...] coming up on one year since the D16 Digital Bolex camera was first announced and Kickstarted, but it’s now one giant step closer to completion and release. The RAW Super 16mm-sized CCD [...]

By: A History of the Digtial Bolex Camera Project and an Update on Its Progress - NoFilmSchool

Sun, 29 Jul 2012 20:11:36 +0000

[...] been quite a while since we’ve written about it in-depth (March, actually), but the Digital Bolex project has undergone some minor changes since the success of its [...]

By: Joe Marine

Joe Marine — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 16:42:39 +0000

Funny you should ask as I just read the answer – it’s something they’d like to do if they can make it work. Here is Elle from Digital Bolex on the matter:

“It ships with a C mount but the entire front plate of the camera comes off and is interchangeable. We’re working on at least five different mounts. We said on our Kickstarter that if we raise over $250,000, then everybody who buys a camera will also get an additional mount, which will be at first EF or PL [Arri]. We’re also working on M [Leica], Micro Four Thirds [Panasonic and Olympus], and B4. We want to do a turret, like the old Bolexes have so you can have three lenses on at the same time. We’ll do Nikon if we’re able to. We want to make this camera as versatile as possible so that everyone can use newer and older equipment on it.”

By: Paul Johnson

Paul Johnson — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 16:38:38 +0000

Why doesn’t the Digital Bolex have a lens turret like the original Bolex to make it easy and fast to change lenses with less possibility of getting dust on the sensor?

By: Major Disruption: BlackMagic Design Cinema that Shoots 2.5K Raw for 3K « Illectric Sheep

Sat, 05 May 2012 00:49:45 +0000

[...] fact that it’s a S16 RAW camera makes it a competitor to the Digital Bolex camera we mentioned previously, though I would note the fact that BlackMagic is an established company [...]

By: BlackMagic Design’s Cinema Camera is a 2.5K RAW Shooter with Built-in Monitor and Recorder for $3K - NoFilmSchool

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:00:28 +0000

[...] fact that it’s a S16 RAW camera makes it a competitor to the Digital Bolex camera we mentioned previously, though I would note the fact that BlackMagic is an established company [...]

By: Natt

Natt — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 21:06:20 +0000

Oh no, the RED army at the gates! Oh shi~

By: Natt

Natt — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 21:03:40 +0000

>post work just sounds like a pain with RED after talking with a number of people

I call BS, if they aren’t working on old Pentium 4 machines, haha. It’s no more pain that with 35mm film scans.

By: Natt

Natt — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:10:43 +0000

Haters gonna hate, while rest of us will be shooting films, thank you very much.

By: Shayne

Shayne — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 22:46:28 +0000

Footage from the Ikonoskope camera looks more like 5D stuff to me. I don’t think it’s a competing product.

By: Shayne

Shayne — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 22:40:27 +0000

Beautiful! I love the image quality. Video has always tried to be too clear and high rez which is great for lots of industrial applications, but not always good for artistic endeavors . Love the 60′s 16mm look.

By: sk

sk — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:52:36 +0000

Having the camera shoot RAW vide is a major step in the right direction and one that the big companies should of supported years ago. But the two main issues holding back digital cameras from being on par with analog ones is rolling shutter and moire. If they can eradicate those issues I’d buy one in a heartbeat.

By: Garth

Garth — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 09:04:27 +0000

The A-cam SP-16 is a film camera that uses celluloid where as the Digital Bolex D16 is exactly that, Digital but captures images sequentially “1 frame at a time” without the camera having to compress and encode thus giving it a “true frame rate of 24FPS. It is the first digital camera that gives a true representation on film. It also needs no proprietary software like RED or ARRI at a price point that blows everything else out of the water. Personally I love the idea and my order is going in as soon as these are internationally available.

By: razvan

razvan — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 23:42:24 +0000

only 100, 200 and 400 ISO!!!!…. I never use a camera @maximum ISO….

By: Phil

Phil — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 23:32:57 +0000

Glad to see a camera that just goes down to capturing the image leaving the it to the user to tell it what to do. From what it sounds like, (i hope) this format will become a new standard. (like a film print or something) Seeing it come on a camera in the US might boost the format too. As mentioned above, the ikonoskop camera came out with the same concept long ago. But I think the expensive memory cards were the main problem with the sale on that camera. BUT thinking about it now, The CF cards are gonna fill up damn quick on this camera, and you’d probably have to dish out a bunch of cash for fast/larger ones. BUt I’d feel better buying them knowing I can use them elsewhere though …

By: sammy

sammy — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 23:26:27 +0000

yeah..true…but D-bolex does not even exist yet.
So why so scared that it can’t be discussed. Then why
not just close the discussion instead of making it disappear.

If True RAW cameras shoot better color than REDCODE it
will be some hard times in Red world.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:06:31 +0000

Whoa, price-doubling HD-SDI module? That’s ridiculous. Still shouldn’t prevent you from getting a raw stream from it if it’s 3G-SDI, or dual HD-SDI like the F3 has.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:03:53 +0000

If the thread was in the wrong subforum then it was moved or deleted. Same rules apply to any forum out there. It’s also a different companies camera, and there is a subforum which links off-site to talk about other cameras. Also, name another camera company that hosts a forum on their own servers and has it’s employees deal with customer issues in a public setting. There are very few companies *period* that have the moxy to do this.