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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F this turns out to be true… it seems clear to me that it is a component that we be developed for the likely forthcoming APS-C video camera, but will also connect easily to the 7D, 5DII and other DRSL cameras with video.
That way they will be creating a line of low to high priced/speced cameras that all have a common RAW format (at an additional price).
It would kill off alot of RED business, I think.
Imagine a 5DII that could capture 2/4k RAW at 1-60fps. At a price of around $5k ($2500 for camera, same for the recording unit).
Speculation sure, but not that unlikely.
The recording length limit is intentional.
It’s to get around tariffs that apply to video cameras in Europe.
Yeah I don’t believe that. Even if it was true and not a rumor forum spread myth, that’s no reason to limit it for the rest of the world. They put Rebel on USA cameras so they can deliver cameras with slightly different firmware settings turned on too. But I still believe the tariff idea is a myth. Canon themselves blame it on the CF card’s fat32, not tariffs.
Try holding you finger up a foot away from your face and look carefully at it. Did you notice that the background is now out of focus. Our eyes are like a 8mm 1.0 Lens with amazing macro focus. Bokeh is very natural!
I don’t know THAT much about high end video editing/workflow but I do have a technical photography and IT background, now regarding the cost of a computer that can handle a raw video worflow, to me it seems more or less similer to a high end photoshop work station with the simple addition a blackmagic or some other video board. Maybe it’s just me, but doing composites with multiple smart objects, multiple 21 megapixel files, all in 16 bit is very demanding as it is, so if you want to go video, just add another raid5 and a dedicated video board and your set.
I’d dare say that canon won’t want to make the 5d TOO strong in video, just because I expect them to want to force people into buying another product to do video at the higher end, how ever I’d say it would be a very smart move on thier part to make a video system based around the EF lenses as long as they find a way make them perform AF better in video and add some with seemles apertures.
As for the raw video thing, a cf card slot adapter to me, would likely not fully solve the issue of data throughput, the 5dII like anything canon make that isn’t 1 series, has costs cut to make it more affordable at the expense various things, one such area is the speed at which it writes via it’s cf card slot, it can be, when compared to 1 series with the same speed media, slower at writing files.
As for processing, from what I know, when ever your outputting a file at lower then the sensors native resolution it’s downsampeling from raw data of the sensor, either to sRAW, jpg or even the video files… and I suspect that to make it output some kind of raw video, after downsampeling, some dedicated hardware in the camera itself might need to be involved.
I still really hope they do improve the already impressive (all things considered) video of the 5dII and soon to be 7d by what ever means they can, but I suspect we’ll see a successor to the 5dII before they get raw video in it.