From Redusers
“A little birdy just whispered something pretty remarkable into my ear. I cannot verify this AT ALL but rumor has it that Canon may be prepping to unveil a RAW or sRAW recording module for the 5D2, 7D, etc, which would record possibly via the CF card slot. Apparently they are being tested and used now.
Will post more details later if I get any. Don't know about framerates or RAW vs sRAW. And again, this is totally unconfirmed, from a single “high-placed” source.”
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thanks Tom
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FAT32‘s cluster number should be within 65526 to 4177918, maximum sector size of every cluster 64k which can be 256k if specified when formatted, so 4177917 x 64k = 267 g, if using 256k sector, it can be extended to 1TB. Using Windows command line and type in “format /?” you will find out above statement.
Windows can not read ext2, that is the problem. I think that is the limitation.
Maybe this has got a bit garbled in the Japanese whispers style translation.
Some of it sounds a little far fetched to me.
What Canon could easily do is enable a clean 1920 x 1080 feed from the HDMI port via a firmware upgrade and then release a solid state video recorder that bolts to the bottom of the camera (grip style) that plugs into the HDMI port.
It could have some integrated controls for start/stop etc similar to existing grips.
It could have a mount for support rods and a rosette for a handgrip or a video out for a video viewfinder.
Who knows?
The RAW would likely find a use in professional cimematography where they can afford $$$$ computers, and often send digital files to outside companies to process.
Its of little practical use to ordinary photographers, but if you are making a motion picture and want to eliminate compression artifacts, then it would strike yet another blow into RED sales for certain applications. The 5D MK II is not a video camera, but for the price, it can do many things that don’t need a $100,000 plus setup.
Sounds like a logical next step. Processor and storage speeds keep increasing exponentially, so it doesn’t sound like a significant challenge in the near term. I wouldn’t be surprised to see it grow to 30 fps and beyond in a few years with even larger pixel counts. Nothing stopping Canon from putting immense high speed buffer storage in the cameras so that the traditional bottlenecks of processing and storage can be mitigated. Hard to predict the future but there may be add-on modules that can be bolted on like the battery grip to increase the processing and storage just like we bolt on servers to a rack today.
S Kumar
> Sticking a larger sensor in a camcorder wont give it the same look and control over DOF I get now.
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Of course it will. Ok – when you have the 5DMkII, you can achieve an even smaller DOF…
I don’t know, if you ever filmed with one, but the handling of a camcorder is much better for filming than the one of a DSLR. Don’t get me wrong, I love the new video feature of DSLRs!