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Barry, we will be showing (at NAB) some material off the sensors we've been testing, but for the moment, we're still very much in testing and development (months away from releasing finished retail cameras), and the purpose of my posting here is basically to give users advanced notice of what we're doing. Up untill now, our development has been behind the scenes, and much of it will continue to be behind the scenes (internally, and with beta testers).
At this point, I feel it's better to under-promise and over-deliver, so that is one of the reasons I'm wary to get too far into talking about what we're working on. But yes, we will support common lens mounts. We will have a couple of different output formats. Again, rather not get into too much specifics at this stage in development, and just leave the much broader statement that we're working on very robust digital cinema cameras, and working very hard to make owning them (and a complete turnkey workflow) a reality for many types of users.
Yes, too much info for firewire. There is some gray area in that statement, but the short answer is basically that firewire isn't easily do-able.
We are outputting uncompressed rgb. We should be offering a couple flavors of compressed output as well (both lossless, and lossy).. but again, i'd rather keep this development behind the scenes, and then show you all in a few more months a fully tested version of what we've accomplished. The sensors are custom manufactured for us.
With respect to Assimilate, we really do feel this workflow is revolutionary. Even if i could show you a camera the size of a cellphone that can output 4k 60p, that won't mean much if it's outputting gigs of raw bayer data that you have no way to preview in realtime, and no feasible (or at least simple) means of stuffing it into a workflow. There are perhaps a few technically advanced users who would be interested in such a device, but the real issue for me, is streamlining such a workflow, so that a technically advanced camera doesn't require a technically advanced user-- you shouldn't need to understand demoasic algorithms, nor do most users want to. Just attach the recorder, pull up the LUT for your preferred film stock, and get back to focusing on what is in front of the camera.
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