Digital Bolex Releases Avalanche of New Raw Footage Wow, Team Bolex must’ve read our post Tuesday about needing to see way more footage out of them, because today they released a mammoth 10GB download of Raw footage shot in Elle Schneider’s art studio using the prototype D16. And while it’s kinda nifty to see Schneider play with arts and crafts, the more interesting piece is the behind the scenes video that shows Joe Rubenstein actually using the camera. And that suddenly makes the Digital Bolex a hell of a lot more real. We started shooting on Saturday around noon with a pretty basic setup: Kino, slider, Switronix battery, Zacuto follow focus, Small HD EVF, tripod, and laptop for dumping footage. This camera ran a little hot, as Mike said it would, but that didn’t seem to be causing any problems. We shot for a number of hours on Saturday and Sunday, and stitched together a little vignette for you guys to download and grade. – Joe, Digital Bolex Blog The test footage wasn’t shot with the latest configuration of the D16, which is rather unfortunate. But citing the need to use hte latest “new parts” for continued “development” of the same prototype that Rubstein used for shooting stills back in July in Canada, but with a firmware update (crickey, is this thing EVER going to get out of development?!). The camera was going to be used as a test, to see how the latest version of the firmware would look. Rubenstein admittedly noticed some ghosting issues right off the back, but when he traded out the C mount for a PL mount, the issue seemed to disappear. And that’s one of the features of this camera I really like, the ability to just change out a camera mount when needed. That flexibility that offers is really cool and if the D16 has any impact on camera design and development, I hope it’s that this kind of flexible camera mount will be adopted industry wide. But only time will tell. All told, the test was fairly successful, but not without issue. “We did eventually run into a huge firmware bug, and at least 3 different minor errors that we called Canada about in a panic and that the engineers hadn’t seen before, so I guess we did our jobs…” Rubenstein wrote. And it required them to, what a surprise, send the camera back to the facility in Canada to hunt down the issue. And in viewing the behind the scenes video, I noticed that Joe was rather surprised at how heavy the camera has become. He also seems to be unfamiliar with his own accessories (even though they appear in the initial drawings of the camera), asking Elle about what is obviously a camera handle. That’s a bit of a head scratcher for me. It seems as if there’s no hands-on with the camera beyond waiting for Canada to send the latest version. I don’t know what to think about that, hoping he was just being giddy at being able to finally shoot some footage. But it’s finally exciting to see the D16 actually in action as Joe shoots Elle doing her thing and seeing the monitor accept the signal from the camera and the LCD screen going through its’ various testing and button pressing. It’s yet another positive sign that there may actually be a camera… someday. But I still believe that they need to get this camera into the hands of another shooter and stop with this controlled conditions just shooting each other meme. I want to see Brawley, or Bloom shoot with it without Team Bolex controlling every frame (I don’t want much, do I?). Anyway, here‘s where you can download all the footage. And expect it to go offline as Joe is using a Dropbox account and there’s bandwidth limits that come into play. I waited and hour and was able to download with no issues.
Posted on: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 08:48:56 +0000
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