This is the new Axiom camera which can shoot 4K at 4:4:4 and comes with Micro Four Thirds passive mount! And the coll thing is that software and hardware are fully open source! You guys can read all details and support the financing on Indiegogo (Click here).
And here is a video presenting the camera:
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I wish them all the best really.
but they got some serious issues in my opinion.
1st one in the designed presented of the camera. really ugly for my taste. and designed and over all look is important.
2nd issue is the clip they made. look like a clip the boys made at school.
3rd they are asking you to support with at least 350E so you can get the BETA for first adopters in half of the retail price.
you are actually paying for being the guinea pig.
as much as you want to support this important Idea and to join the”rebel of the Camera world” and all that anti corporate mantra they are not making it easy for you.
I think you totally miss the point of crowdfunding and open source. Yes you are taking a risk, yes you are the guinea pig. Admittedly they seem over-zealous about the whole open source thing but. If you look at the most successful open source projects the open source nature is not their selling point, the selling point is a great product. I would have like to see more about the product they are offering in the video, not an attempt to convert me to their religion.
For every successful open source project, there are 10 miserable failures or projects simply abandoned for something else unless there is a sponsor. Eclipse would have died if it were not for IBM. Cassandra would of died without DataStax. This is not a slight against open source it is reality. Unless there is a massive appeal like Mozilla, it gets dropped. The open source world is also often ADD and chases the next shiny new thing. Sure, there are some great efforts, but every new project like this is tenuous at best for its success. I am not holding my breath for this one.
http://youtu.be/GExhtfgB-3c see the alpha footage and decide for yourself .. keep in mind most was shot using nikkors ..with cooke and better cine glass sky is the limit .. #photogrammetry custom color mapping
i think people mainly busy with productions dont reallly care about how it looks (imo it looks pretty cool). this is not for showing off around your neck(but i would lol)
I was reading the specs and the sensor appears to be APS-C sized. I couldn’t find the part about it using an M43 mount.
It is stated Canon, Nikon and MFT mounts available. (all passive. More will follow)
You can choose from 3 sensors.
Looks like it’s only 2 sensors now.
Since the video software is a open source, maybe Olympus just copy and modified the video software for the latest em1 firmware upgrades. Jokes aside, I do wish them all the best and maybe they can hacked Olympus cameras and give us high bitrates video.
The beginning of the end of proprietary mount. As more and more makers choosing M43, and especially open source movement embracing M43, it should be clear the nonsense in locking users to a specific mount system and over charging them is so out of date. The mirrorless revolution provides the opportunity to stop such rip-offs. Panasonic and Olympus should open up M43 more and let open source people have more access to the M43 specifics. That will then mean the end of monopoly or duopoly for ever, free competition, significantly lower prices due to a common and huge user base of the same camera mount.
Even though it has more than one owner, m4/3 is still a proprietary mount. Why would they open it up so others can make a profit?
If m43 can be the m42 mount of the 21st Century, then all power to it. But I don’t think to charge people more was the reason why Nikon stuck to their F mount for 40+ years. The older mounts are legacy mounts that need to be continued into the future to support older users. Imagine if camera makers changed mounts every 20 years or so. Like Olympus with the OM and then 43. And Canon.
Cool design!
Hopefully, it will make it to the market and actually ship.
Perhaps a more accurate lede would have been: “This is a CGI rendering of the so-far-not-actually-existent new Axiom camera…”
I know that’s how crowdfunding normally works, but it doesn’t hurt to inject an occasional note of realism.
Another 4K-related topic.
This site is losing its focus, I fear.
it’s 4/3 news related and i don’t see how is it losing focus.
It’s a cincema camera with a 43 sensor and MFT mount.
maybe nothing else to focus on for now, and 4k is hot now, even the most dedicated still shooter has to admit that.
4K is hot only in technological circles. It currently serves the cinema industry and manufacturers of TV displays.
I happened to watch a short 4K clip on a 4K display (55”) the other week. The fact is you have to sit 50cm from the screen to tell the difference between 4K and 1080. 4K is irrelevant considering normal viewing distances.
Having a 4K option in your camera is better than not having it, but lets put it in proportion. I fear that most of those hyperventilating about it are concerned with the ownership of such an option more than its utilization.
sure this is right but how about people with high mp still cameras who never print or never crop? for some part this can be applied to the 4k option as well..
Exactly. Although it is much more common for non-professionals to crop still images than video footage. Editing high bitrate / high resolution video is a pain, especially when choosing a “nondestructive” strategy such as RAW or low-contrast output. In comparison, editing an 80MB still RAW file is a piece of cake.
It’s just for a little contrast. Not to worry, it’s just a phase.
Don’t worry, some of us like puns and get it.
Ugly thing obviously designed by someone who doent know a word about desing .
http://youtu.be/GExhtfgB-3c see the footage from the uglier alpha camera
Olympus could scrape some of the nostalgia off their geta and check this thing out to learn a thing or two. Industrial design didn’t stop in 1965.
The Axiom seems to have been designed for tripod and rig use, but It has a sort of brutalist charm to it that’s quite likeable!
I agree. Not everything has to follow the Japanese design tendencies.
Have you ever seen a video rig… No matter how sexy your camera is, it will end up looking like a contraption from hell once you’re ready to shoot with it.
Shut up….you don’t know how design is spelt also lol
This is a great concept camera, I hope they can really bring it to the market.
the true electronic honest price 2000$ for a pro production Hollywood camera. Bye Bye canon and sony thieves
Is this what a “modular” design is? Coz I read many comments on this site a while back by people wishing there was a modular camera, so is this what they were referring to?
Yes, you can upgrade different parts (sensor, mount) and extend the camera (other IO).
very nice camera but I think it NOT MICRO 4/3 but it is 4/3 mount
It says MFT mount.
The flange focal distance looks very long
And the FT is open the MFT is not open
Backers seem to prefer APS-C though (Demand is 124 vs 8 so far)
but… pretty lame promo video. The fake “world news intro” had me curling my toes.
There is a fundamental flaw in this.
Why would you invest in a product at a time when the market for that product is shrinking rapidly.
It’s a bit like investing in a new CD player after mp3 / ipod has been launched.
Lets face reality, cameras as stand alone objects are going to continue to sell less and become a much smaller market as miniaturisation and better sensors enables them to be incorporated into every day objects and as photography and video become ever more ubiquitous
There will still be a market for the cameras in the same way as there is still a market for vinyl record players or high end CD players but in order for them to make money they are going to have to position themselves at the top end of the market or a very specialised niche.
Micro four thirds is a mass market product predominantly purchased by casual photographers and moderate enthusiasts and the USP for this device will appeal to a very small percentage of these photographers.
I suspect they would have more success if they developed a medium format version of this aimed at commercial studio photographers who. by using specialised in-camera software, may be able to save a lot of time (money) in post processing.
I just realised it is aimed at the pro video market. That seems a more sensible choice.
There is no other mount this project could have targeted. M43 has an open consortium anyone can join whereas no other camera maker will give Axiom the protocols they need for electronic interaction with the lens, for example.They would have to reverse-engineer it which will be massively expensive.
Interesting. But if its aimed to pros or enthusiasts I am afraid open source and stability dont go hand in hand…
Au contraire… As long as an OSS project is popular enough to draw enough maintainers, it will be much more stable than propietary alternatives. This is because maintenance work is considered very unglamorous in the commercial world… Clients don’t buy new software for ‘stability’, they buy it for new features. Hence why Adobe products for example are riddled with crashing bugs which are never corrected, yet every new release is bloated with more features which no one asked for. But with OSS, being project maintainer is a *very* highly regarded position.
What above person said – just look on Nginx, MySQL, Varnish, Apache, PHP, Python, I can continue counting up projects which are based on OSS 🙂
Oh engineers, you guys are the absolute worst marketers. You should’t even try to make, write, and film videos.
That said, this camera represents a positive future to me. Little niche cameras that satisfy their tiny markets and are much more flexible than the big companies can afford to be.
You want something within the capacity of the hardware? You can code it to happen. Contrast that with how the Japanese companies limit their hardware so they don’t cannibalize sales…
“cool thing”, not “coll thing”
This is unlike what you are used to.