In one of the lectures I attended, I briefly heard of a quite impressive High Definition (HD) camera in the 2000px range. Just today I found an article over at Gizmodo on the Phantom HD camera, and they featured one of the first commercials shot with this HD camera.
Picture from Vision Research
The Phantom apparently has a shutter that is variable to 1/500,000 seconds, also you can select any frame rate from 1 to 1,000 fps. And I can’t quite seem to confirm this, but it seems to support 4:4:4 sampling. (If you don’t know what I am talking about, don’t worry. I might try and explain it some other time.)
Below is the ad hosted on YouTube:
The camera directly supports two workflows. You can use the single HD-SDI output to send 4:2:2 chroma-sampled video in any common HD-SDI format to a deck or disk array or other video capture device.
Or, you can save the raw image data as a file and later convert that file to other formats, in which case you have the equivalent of 4:4:4 but since no sampling is used that is not really the way to describe it.
A 4:4:4 output capability is planned, but not yet available.
Rick Robinson
Director of Marketing
Vision Research
Hi Rick Robinson,
Thank you for reading this post and pointing out this extra piece of information.
-Stephen Olsen