What exactly is CinePi?

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  @YogertPC · 1 year ago (edited) · pinned

  I won’t answer this again so consider this pinned comment a response. Yes super 8 is small, however no you’re wrong it is big enough to be called a cinema camera because the iPhone pro series has been considered “cinema camera worthy” and those sensors are smaller (If súper 8 was good enough for Spielberg it’s good enough for you). Lastly there are bigger sensors like 16mm, one inch and micro 4/3rds you can use, and those sensors definitely exists in cinema cameras. I’m not going to debate you. -Ando

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• BI

  @billyoung9538 · 2 years ago (edited)

  Red(now Nikon) doesn&apos;t own the patent to RAW recording. They own the patent to compressed mosaic raw recording; however even that is debatable as it&apos;s been shown that the technology both existed before they claim inventing it, and Red failed to file their patent within the legal time frame required for it to be legitimate. While a lot of people think Nikon won their lawsuit by simply buying RED. The flaw with that argument is that Nikon wasn&apos;t the first to beat RED&apos;s patent, Jinni Tech was. <br><br>Jinni Tech managed to get red to drop their patent suit before it ever went to court; however, Jinni Tech was also so small that they ultimately went under from the post expense of the battle, but they did manage to get Red to drop the law suit before that happened. AKA they technically won. Nikon was literally the first big company that was taking the Jinni tech law suit approach for their battle as well, and many felt that they were likely going to win, and assumed that was why RED dropped the law suit, but then it was assumed it was because Nikon bought RED instead; however, Nikon bought RED for much less than many thought it was worth, and because no one who has used the Jinni Tech argument has ever made it to court the patent still remains in place, at least until it either expires in 2028 or Nikon attempts to renew it. <br><br>That said it would be hypocritical of Nikon to pursue the patent given their arguments prior to the acquisition of RED; however, they might want to try and recoup some of the expense of the purchase and hope no one really tests the patent all the way to court, as a functioning patent generating money is better than testing it in court only to have it fail.

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• AL

  @AltCine · 2 years ago

  &quot;building a camera is like building a pc&quot; 🙌🏾🙌🏾 you&apos;re a breath of fresh air.

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  @maquez650 · 2 years ago

  Bruh I watched through the entirety of this and just noticed this has 900 views. Insanely underrated content. Kerri it up!

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  @Bar.9031 · 2 years ago

  I heard the reason that blackmagic RAW is allowed is because BMD proved that BRAW was made before RED got it&apos;s patent, which just makes me question how RED (now under Nikon) got the patent in the first place

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• BI

  @billyoung9538 · 2 years ago

  Okay, so the crop of the sensor, if I&apos;ve got the numbers correct, is 6.92. That means that 50mm lens FoV equivalent of a standard Super35 camera would be roughly the same as a 231mm super telephoto lens. That isn&apos;t in the ideal range of most cinema glass even for even portrait footage. One is going to want an 11mm for typical 50mm FoV super35 equivalent portrait lens, &nbsp;7mm to 8mm for a typical 35mm FoV standard lens, a 6mm for roughly a super35 wide angle 28mm equivalent, a 4mm for a 18mm-19mm super35 super wide angle equivalent. Interestingly there is a single lens that can cover almost every one of these focal lengths, is pretty fast with a fixed focal length of up to f/1.6; however the lens doesn&apos;t have a filter ring so one would have to built them self a &quot;matte box&quot; &nbsp;equivalent solution and add some IR cut along with ND to get something usable out of the lens unless they want to crank down their aperture size. Also there is very little know about how soft this lens is wide open, but it&apos;s probably gong to need to have it&apos;s aperture dropped a bit to get a decently sharp image, but for the budget cinematographer who is learning to shoot with this budget camera it is the most ideal solution. Just as a thought on a filter solution, one might try getting a box of step up ring adapters and seeing if one can slide over the outside of the lens, even with a little black electrical tape this could get one a filtering ring solution for roughly $10-$20 and one could match an ir cut and maybe variable ND for whatever happens to be the best budet price. Anyhow, here is the best budget single zoom lens for the entire range:<br>4-12mm = Arducam 4-12mm f/1.6 - ~$50

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• BL

  @blackdog6969 · 2 years ago

  The end result with the lego camera is actually pretty damn impressive. I love that modularity in tech is improving and I&apos;ll be honest, I didn&apos;t even think about how useful it&apos;d be for things like homemade movies on the cheap. Great vid

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• EA

  @Eason_ZhouYixun · 2 years ago

  Thank you very much for introducing Cine Fox, your CinePI-LEGO is also very cool!😆

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  @VietinghoffAlex · 2 years ago

  First time I&apos;ve heard Scanazon Crinme 😂 going to use that from now on. Awesome video, I&apos;ve been wanting to make a CinePi for awhile, I&apos;m waiting to see AltCine&apos;s version!!

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  @TheRealHarrypm · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuwTC194y_8&amp;t=271">4:31</a> This is funny, Sony, ARRI, Blackmagic and others all have RAW codecs and or encoder packs old high end pro kit from the 2000/2010s still has massive life in it, and Cinema DNG 12-bit support, there is now also FFV1 from FFmpeg for a lossless compressed up to 16-bit 4:4:4 which is actually a bit better then CDNG, but cost of cameras becomes a rounding error when storage costs are factored into the operations.

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• HO

  @HowdyYT · 2 years ago

  Outro goes hard ngl. Also the Lego shell is awesome lol

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• KE

  @kendelpho · 2 years ago (edited)

  It looks like a video that may be featured in a future documentary about the beginning of open-source cameras. Anyway, I&apos;m here for it, great video.

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