My camera-nerd friend loves the new Sony a7s, as it's optimized for video. Considerably less expensive than this.
Sony A7s looks an awesome camera, for sure. But unless someone unlocks more features, you're limited to what Sony wants you to have. This might not be a problem for most.
For example, can the A7s do timelapse video recording? I know Sony does a $9.99 app for the NEX cameras, but how capable is it? Can you do speed ramping effects etc. Stuff like this will hopefully be easy to do with the Axiom. But not right away with the Beta model.
If I were to hack an image sensor, I'd work on phone cameras. At this price range, I expect the thing to be awesome out of the box, so "open source" doesn't really add anything.
So that just means the project is not for me. I hope it's successful regardless, but I suspect it's much cooler for the inventor than it will be for the users.
The Axiom Beta is as it's name suggests. There are plans for a Gamma model which will be much more of a mature product.
Phone camera sensors wouldn't be suitable for anything other than experimentation - small sensor, poor low light, no shallow depth of field, probably rolling shutter issues, etc.
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My camera-nerd friend loves the new Sony a7s, as it's optimized for video. Considerably less expensive than this.
Sony A7s looks an awesome camera, for sure. But unless someone unlocks more features, you're limited to what Sony wants you to have. This might not be a problem for most.
For example, can the A7s do timelapse video recording? I know Sony does a $9.99 app for the NEX cameras, but how capable is it? Can you do speed ramping effects etc. Stuff like this will hopefully be easy to do with the Axiom. But not right away with the Beta model.
If I were to hack an image sensor, I'd work on phone cameras. At this price range, I expect the thing to be awesome out of the box, so "open source" doesn't really add anything.
So that just means the project is not for me. I hope it's successful regardless, but I suspect it's much cooler for the inventor than it will be for the users.
The Axiom Beta is as it's name suggests. There are plans for a Gamma model which will be much more of a mature product.
Phone camera sensors wouldn't be suitable for anything other than experimentation - small sensor, poor low light, no shallow depth of field, probably rolling shutter issues, etc.
As I understand it, there are plans to add support for electronic lenses at some point (after the initial Beta version).