The Camera That's Also a Mac Mini, Or Vice Versa

Joe Marine of No Film School has a short interview with two of the creators of the Black Betty, a deceptively old-school looking digital cinema camera. The Black Betty gets around one issue with the massive data processing and storage needs inherent to high-capacity, high-resolution video cameras by attacking it head-on. Rather than use the camera "merely" as a collection device, the creators have jammed into the machined aluminum case the guts of a Mac Mini, which means the camera not only has a powerful processing brain, but a built-in SSD drive, and can (in a pinch, or even by preference in the field) be used to edit and transmit the footage collected with the actual imaging system, which is based around the SI-2K Mini sensor, which shoots 1080p video at up to 30fps.

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Re:It is really a mac mini at that point?

[jedidiah]

> Are there many other PCs as small as a Mac Mini?

Are you really that ignorant?

PCs come in all kinds of shapes and sizes and always have. I bought first low profile PC before Apple ever considered having something similar.

I even advocated that Apple build such machines right here on this website.

I bought my own Mac Minis because they were CHEAP, not because there weren't other x86 options available. Once that stopped being the case, I ditched Apple hardware.

The fact that my "ION" Mini cooked itself also didn't help.