This was mentioned before and I just wanted to see if Jim is aware of it. It looks like fantastic technology that would benefit RED inmensly. Perhaps RED can buy this company out and keep this from the competition. ;)

http://www.livetechnologies.com.au

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Steven

I've been looking for solutions like that.
I wonder how it will affect the picture quality?

Neat it has a on/off function.

Any comments about this Jim?

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Looks like a ND filter that reacts accordingly to every situation. It'd be nice if it was built into cameras instead of an add-on device.

Looks like a ND filter that reacts accordingly to every situation. It'd be nice if it was built into cameras instead of an add-on device.

More than that, it implements a contrast mask. Why wouldn't you manage that in the response curve of the sensor?

I have had a little incidental exposure to an early development version of the chip.

I stuck a non-active one into an AGUS35 on front of an FX1 to enable examination of optical characteristics relating to HDV.

I am not able to go into any tech detail for confidentiality reasons.

As I understand things generally, CCD and CMOS developments for upcoming generations of video cameras will to some degree eliminate the need for a "smart-filter" as the attributes of the smart filter will likely be integrated on the imaging chips. Such solutions have already been mentioned on forums.

The market for the "smart-filter" will lie in the current and previous generations of high capital value video cameras right down to consumer camcorders.

This is a large population of existing cameras which are otherwise heading for redundency.

A four year old Cine-Alta represents a past big capital investment for any production entity or rental house which may or may not have made its money back.

A successful "smart-filter" development may extend the useful productivity of these cameras across furthur generations for a modest investment.

The product would complement the improved latitude of new generation cameras to come.

The "smart-filter" also presents the potential for the latitude of film-based imaging to be furthur expanded.

I remain in the wings waiting for another opportunity to get my grreasy fingers on the next development of the technology.

smart filter would help video camera that have a 4-6 stop range.
however a camera with 10+ stops you do not need it ..

Don.

This is pretty much tech stuff I am out of my league on.

I suspect though that if the smart filter technology was avalable for immediate integration into film origination, video camera builders would want all the latitude they could get, 10 stops of native latitude or not.

I might be wrong but, reading on their page they had a Arri 435 with the smartfilter adapter on.

I can see some situations when this adapter could come in handy, even if you have 10 stops in camera.

I might be wrong but, reading on their page they had a Arri 435 with the smartfilter adapter on.

I can see some situations when this adapter could come in handy, even if you have 10 stops in camera.

Yeah, it's like recording audio with ProTools; you may have a ton of dynamic range available from the mic to the preamp to the I/O, but a compressor/limiter is still really handy sometimes.

I have been out of touch with this one for a while. Here's a bit of more recent news on it. It seems the product has another name now.

http://www.screenwest.com.au/index.cfm?objectid=F727A6D0-65BF-EBC1-2021352CBF7131F1&navid=9CD848AD-C09F-1F3C-C8B2FDD4B037EF9C