Five Reasons why the new Ikonoskop A-Cam dII matters in a Red world
Published by Matthew Jeppsen September 19th, 2008 in News
Swedish 16mm camera boutique shop Ikonoskop just released a (relatively) affordable 1920 x 1080 digital cinema camera at IBC. The A-Cam dII is a unique offering in a beautifully integrated case design. Already it’s being compared to the Red One and Scarlet by Red shooters and potential customers. Over at PVC I’ve posted 5 reasons why I believe this new camera offering differs from what Red is offering, and how it stacks up to the Red One and Scarlet.
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I don’t know that any concerns over CMOS rolling shutters are valid when talking about RED’s sensors. As has been discussed to an almost unnerving degree, the rolling shutter issues are directly related to the speed at which the sensor can offload the image data - where as older CMOS sensors did this at very low (slow) rates, RED’s sensors are much faster (40% faster). Factoring that in along with the fact that the rolling shutter is similar to an actual film shutter, you have a more natural film-like process than a global shutter.
This camera certainly has a huge size advantage (in being so small) as well as the interchangeable lenses compared to Scarlet - but in terms of workflow it seems to be way too heavy for the resolution.
All in all, I think this is pretty exciting to see RED and now Ikonoskope really pushing digital cinema. This is definitely the “Macintosh” of the cinema world. Fun times.
The Red One certainly is affected by CMOS rolling shutter, it may be one of the best performing, but it can exhibit the typical artifacts if you don’t take care to minimize excessive flashes and overly fast pans. I’m not sure how much more efficient Red One is vs common CMOS sensors… but I do remember reading a post by Jim sometime around NAB where he stated the upcoming sensor program (Mysterium X) would be 40% faster CMOS readout than Mysterium.
I’m glad you called the dII the Mac of digital cinema… I was searching for the best way to describe the camera in a single sentence, and that about sums it up in my opinion.
Thanks for the comment,
-MJ
Well according to RED the read-reset times for the current RED One’s are just slightly above that of film. The new Monstro sensor is supposed to be even better than a film camera so the skew issues would then be no better than if you actually shot on film.
I wasn’t calling the dII the Mac of digital cinema, but rather that both RED and Ikonoskop as being the Mac of the cinema world as they both are currently pushing the film industry into new places. I am sure in the coming years more companies will get on the bandwagon. Definitely exciting times!
Regarding the dII, is there any info about the actual CCD? It seems to be a single sensor..
There is some discussion on a thread over at DVinfo in which a poster suggest they tracked down the CCD bayer sensor being used in the camera.
We’re working on getting some dynamic range numbers from Ikonoskop.
-MJ