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

Posted by timothy on Thursday August 29, 2013 @02:52AM from the trying-to-kill-me-with-gadget-lust dept.

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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Retro ... and ... and ..APPLE! by Anonymous Coward · 2013-08-29 03:05 · Score: 0, Troll

I just CAME - in an ironic way! I guess that means I WENT!
-Hipster
An SSD drive you say? by gumpish · 2013-08-29 03:16 · Score: 1, Troll

I should go to the ATM machine and enter my PIN number so I can go buy one of those SSD drives myself.