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CinePI: A high-end film camera built on Raspberry Pi

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When I see something described as a "film camera" I infer that it uses film.

This appears to be a "film-quality, cinematic camera" that does not use film.

I had to read the whole article, carefully, to be certain that the project is purely digital. It looks digital, there's no obvious place to spool film, but phrases like "film is recorded RAW at extremely high quality" really muddy the waters.

So for anybody who's wondering, this is a digital camera.

Do you also investigate if save icons save to floppy disks?

If somebody made a post talking about a "home-made floppy disk" and I clicked on it only to discover it was a flash drive, I'd be a little annoyed, sure.

If a post said "hobbyist makes a land-line phone using modern components" but it was actually a cell-phone case shaped like a Bell handset, again, annoying.

The headline is actively misleading. That's all.

It seems to be a mistake by the editor. The creator of the device quoted in the article correctly calls it a cinema camera.

I know, it's confusing, but "film" is also synonymous with "movie" (especially widely used as such outside the US).

You can also grab a Canon EOS-M, from 10 years ago, and put Crop Mood (custom firmware) on it to record 14bit 2k/4k/5k RAW

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCeKCfgRnO4

>2K is basically 1080 p.

It's not basically 1080p, it's literally 2x more pixels, which is important for cropping to 1080p in select zones, or emulating lense zoom, stabilization etc.

Heh, this is where video format naming is stupid. 1080p = 1920x1080. 2K = 2048x1080. 2K and 1080p are practically the same. 4K = 3840 x 2160, which ends up being 4x the total number of pixels as 2K/1080p.

At the same aspect ratio, 2K is 2048*1152 which is only 13.8% more pixels than 1080p.

On GitHub: https://github.com/schoolpost/CinePI

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