Blackmagic Desgin anouces 12K URSA Mini Pro Camera

Loote · July 17, 2020

If those replace the Reds, can LTT actually earn money selling their old camera? I assume the water-cooled one will stay, but the other one and a bunch of accessories could offset a lot of the cost.

rawrdaysgoby · July 17, 2020

GUYS IT IS CHEAP only 10k for the body infinitely cheaper then a red. they can buy 4 one for each set

GDRRiley · July 18, 2020

wait LTT order 6 not 5 of these cameras

they may replace all the reds and C200 meaning all of LTT is shot on blackmagic pocket4/6k or URSA 12k

Edited July 18, 2020 by GDRRiley

vanished · July 18, 2020

On 7/16/2020 at 5:47 PM, YellowJersey said:

I know this gets asked every time resolution increases, but I genuinely wonder when or even if we'll ever hit a ceiling where more resolution isn't useful or desired; where people just won't care any more. It makes me wonder of a future where people look at resolution of video cameras the same way people look at processors for smart phones; where the increase doesn't translate into effective or noticeable usefulness.

The year: 2250, "The new Panicanony GH6000 shoots 800,000,000,000k, up from 400,000,000,000k of the last generation GH5999."

For displays, at least within the small segment made up of traditional flat panels as we know them today (PC monitors, TVs, etc.), I've said before that I feel we've already reached this limit with 8K. Now, that's not to say that new tech like VR, holographic displays, other things I can't even predict, etc. won't benefit from more, but these traditional ones really don't, it's just biology and physics. When you consider the field of view a screen like this would ordinarily take up, the angular "resolution" of our eyes means that having more than an 8K panel is simply meaningless.

However, when it comes to recording, it's a whole other story. In addition to capturing content for other media as I listed above, there is the ever present need to stabilize, crop, etc. and this all takes resolution - sometimes quite a lot. Graphical effects like green screen also will come out at better quality if the source footage is clearer.

With that said, there is still a limit, though perhaps for different reasons. It won't be so much that there's no benefit, but rather, simply not way to physically make it happen. You may have noticed that no phone camera has ever had pixels smaller than 0.8 μm. This is because they must be at least that large to see red light. If you extrapolate this upward to the largest size you can feasibly make a sensor before either it or the lenses are simply not practical, you get a figure somewhere in the hundreds, maybe thousands of MP, but not higher.