KineRAW MINI – portable 2K RAW for $3000

After Kineraw recently started shipping their first 4K cinema camera they just presented their new Kineraw MINI here at NAB: A portable camera that delivers a very brilliant 2K RAW image from a 4K sensor. It costs $3000 and it will start shipping in a month.

Just when we thought NAB had not much more to offer than a lot of hype around 4K, we found ourselves spending over an hour at the booth of Chinese cinema camera maker KINERAW. Read on to understand why.

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Canon develops ultra-lowlight 35mm full-frame CMOS sensor

Canon just published a press release with a video showing off their latest development in sensor technology: An ultra lowlight sensitive HD sensor.

Check out the video above to see the sensor in a prototype housing. Too bad it’s only published in 640×360 and not HD as these images look very promising.

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Samyang/Rokinon Cine lenses coming [ready for pre-order]

If you’ve been shopping affordable manual prime lenses for your HDSLR then you’ve probably stumbled upon or even own the famous Samyang / Rokinon lenses like the $500 35mm f/1.4 or the $400 14mm ultra-wide.

[UPDATE]: cinema5D member Gumzster informed me that the 8mm fisheye already exists as a cine version.

[UPDATE 2]: The Samyang 35mm T1.5 Cine lenses is now available for pre-order $549:

“Rokinon 35mm T1.5 cine lens will be available in U.S in few weeks and Rokinon 24mm T1.5 & 14mm T3.1 cine lens will be available in U.S in September.”

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Countdown to Canon event: Canon EOS 300C s35mm camcorder?

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Well there’s not much time left until we know what’s going on here, but what we know for sure is that we’ll see a nice cinema camera today.

As usual there’s more and more info leaking prior to the event and creativevideo.co.uk (via cinescopophilia) has added a placeholder (as seen above) to their lineup of cameras in store which they’re calling the “Canon EOS 300C super 35mm camcorder with EF lens mount” and they threw in a slightly altered old picture of the 4k hairdryer we’ve seen last year at Canon Expo.

- EF lens mount
- Dual CF Card Slots
- Built in ND filters
- Super35mm Sensor
- HDMI and HDSDI output
- Hot shoe mounted HD monitor
- Dual XLR audio inputs
- Full HD 1920 x 1080 resolution
- Full HD uncompressed output via HD-SDI connector

cinema5D will bring you all the info on the Canon event and the RED Scarlet announcement later today. Stay tuned.