Re: Photos of Gemini 4:4:4 on Sony F3
 

"Time to market."

Welcome to the brave new world where we customers are the beta testers, and where "new features" are added alongside firmware fixes for products that may be obsolete before you even pay that credit card off.

Even though I enjoy new technology as much as the next guy, I sometimes miss the days when one only asked "what Betacam do you have?"

I'm not just picking on C-D. I love my Nano (v1.6.248) and it has done good by me.

Gotta go, I have to go do a software update on my tripod.

Re: Photos of Gemini 4:4:4 on Sony F3
 

Dear John,

When we first started shipping our nanoFlash is was a viable and useful device.

Then, over time, we added features to the firmware.

Some of these features were ones that we had promised, and others were very useful features that we had not promised. Some took quite a while to implement, such as Hot Swapping.

And in the case of the our first recorder, the Flash XDR, we have failed to deliver full uncompressed recording to CompactFlash cards, which was going to be an extra cost feature. And they may be a couple of other features for the Flash XDR that were promised that we have not delivered yet.

But, overall, our friends got the benefit of using our new technology sooner than they would have if we waited until everything was finished.

And every few months, more or less, we delivered new features. One example was an On-Screen Tally. Another was 8-Channels of audio. Another was Image Flip. Another was Image Flop (horizontal Flip).

Each new release of firmware goes through very formal and thorough testing.

This includes internal testing in our lab, internal testing of the new code approximately 48 units during heat cycling and burn-in, a private beta testing program, then a public beta testing program.

Then the new firmware is released as "Production Level".

Are we perfect? No.

But, I feel that your comment "we customers are the beta testers" does not accurately reflect what we are doing nor does it reflect our track record.

We are very happy that you love your nanoFlash.

Re: Photos of Gemini 4:4:4 on Sony F3
 

Dennis, that might work. Let's talk about it next week at NAB.

Re: Photos of Gemini 4:4:4 on Sony F3
 

4:2:2 S log only requires single link HDSDi, it is just a regular 10 bit 4:2:2 stream. I believe you will be able to choose between 4:2:2 S-log over a single SDi plus S-Log with LUT on the monitor SDI, or 4:4:4 S-Log over dual link SDi or single 3G SDi with S-Log plus LUT on the monitor SDI. That's the information I have, but things may change.