Interesting read.

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The current beta hardware requires precise 5V inputs, around 2-3A typically, 4A max. peaks.

I have a tiny bit of experience with electronics. I might be able to come up with a voltage input controller.

The Sony NP-F970 L-Series battery is 6300 mAh. How much power will the camera need? That will narrow down which proposal we can use.

@christophvarga I think that the first proposal is fine. I think that finding a mounting/storing point will be a big issue as well. If you could, just post the pictures below! Thank you! Glad to be here!

@TWiGGZ that's fine! which proposal do you prefer?
for me it is still the first one with the sony NP-F batteries. it is the simplest solution especially because non of us two can do electronics.

I've worked with several cads such as tinkercad and autodesks cad. I can design some sort of holder. @christophvarga

what are your skills/background?

How can I help?

Concept ready: https://cad.onshape.com/documents/3cf5e610e2186efc1836afc0/w/c9bda205864d15c168f587db/e/0513cb9090f014b3b73d87b8

toxitobi: for the standard home measurement tape a grove would be great

if possible please add a thread to the enclosure for a knob at the sensor plane

not relevant anymore

Is it possible to record in Uncompressed 4K 4:3 CinemaDNG internally?
Yes, but only for a short period, till the memory is full.

http://old.engineerable.com/design/products/dslr-cat-shoulder-rig/make-a-handle-grip-dslr-cat-shoulder-rig/

Its not possible currently but we are working on it.

This is really impressive...

It's very confusing to me why people tread on eggshells where copyright is concerned in this area. The Greek alphabet is removed from copyright restrictions in the same way that letters of the alphabet are. 'Slide to unlock' is a patent, letters can't be patented.

I'm not keen on quite a few of the fonts, tbh. They fall into novelty genre (Republika, Omikron, Oloron, Enahnced Dot Digtal).

Great, thanks!

OLPF section added to wiki: https://wiki.apertus.org/index.php/AXIOM_Beta/AXIOM_Beta_Hardware#Optical_Low-pass_Filter_.28OLPF.29

Four day poll on OLPF demand - https://twitter.com/apertususer/status/848584997388812289

It is unlikely that the lens system manufacturers will disclose the information about their lenses, but of course, it is worth a try contacting and asking them.

I figured out that camera lenses are using 16bit addressing system and SPI protocol. We need to send and retrieve 16bit data from lenses. And then we need to decode that data stream to human readable. Unfortunately, the data that can be sent and retrieve to lenses is different for every model of the same lens manufacturer. Camera manufacturers include all the information(focus length, aperture range) in their firmware through camera lens ID code. Either we need to get data stream information and observe that by oscilloscope and function generator and translate that to lens information but we've to perform that for every lens model on the planet or else we can ask the camera manufacturers about their own SPI system (what bytes for what).

Every manufacturer has different protocol for their lenses.

Clarify me whether the communication system between cameras( of different manufacturers) and lens is same or do we need to implement different communication protocols for different camera manufacturers? Do all lens systems from various manufacturers follow same communication protocol to their cameras?

Sebastian, if there's need at some point in time then i can translate the article natively, if machine translation is not clear enough.

Is it something like this (http://www.ixbt.com/digimage/canonautosonyl.shtml) that you want to implement ??

Hi,
Is it something like this (http://www.ixbt.com/digimage/canonautosonyl.shtml) that you want to implement ??

The test footage looks amazing.

True, and we could make them ours (have them designed to deviate away from the standard)... In the above image [edited] I just went for the standards.

You've got to realise I've been through about 10,000 fonts at this point, that's getting exhausting and not much seems to work. As a result I keep coming back to the symbol.

You've got to realise I've been through about 10,000 fonts at this point, that's getting exhausting and not much seems to work. As a result I keep coming back to the symbol. As per:

https://fonts.google.com/ has a pretty good selection.

As I went into in chat, two sets of all caps (Line and marque) both with wide spacing. All caps AXIOM we can get away with but ideally you want the sub-category being small case and preferably with a capital B. All caps on both is too off-putting for the subconscious. It might look ok to begin with but I question its staying power.

Yeah, there's something about it that's not right. Things in the CI can be changed surely.

Please elaborate what you find off. Sure we can change the CI but only with good reason, after all we had a pro graphics designer draft this up.

Yeah, there's something about it that's not right. Things in the CI can be changed surely.

We need a new flyer to print very soon and the logo should be on it.

I'd want to know if we're sticking with 'AXIOM' as it stands

The current AXIOM logo is established and approved, no changes.

Very constructive comment RexOr!

Sony would struggle to get apertus on the Greek alphabet. Copyright typically has a shelf-life of 70 years and there are stipulations set-up in the legal world that prevent people from copyrighting base characters. Legality takes into account the circumstantial in a case like this - so for instance if we had a red alpha symbol in italics (followed by corresponding numbers certainly) there'd be room for claim. To my knowledge Sony has only ever produced an Alpha. We produced an Alpha but it's discontinued. The Sony Alpha was introduced in June 2006... before the Axiom... However, had the AXIOM Alpha been brainstormed prior to 2006? I don't know. That would all be about proving what's on paper.

In T744#10885, @sebastian wrote:

So my vote would be for simple/clean/elegant/robust.

In T744#10882, @MichaelH wrote:

Im not sure but somebody alerdy mentioned in the IRC that we could possibly have some trouble using greek alphabet. We would do basicaly the same like Sony with their "Alpha".

To the Font question: maybe it would better to decide about our target group First. Do we want something elegant, something "geeky", something clean and simple? What does transport the message of Axiom best? I think this is the main question we should answer first.

In T744#10883, @BAndiT1983 wrote:

I've mentioned it, because of Sony. Their cameras are marked wit Alpha, not sure if other letters are used too.

http://static.trustedreviews.com/94/00002ab06/e416_orh400w630/alpha-a5000.jpg

I've mentioned it, because of Sony. Their cameras are marked wit Alpha, not sure if other letters are used too.

Im not sure but somebody alerdy mentioned in the IRC that we could possibly have some trouble using greek alphabet. We would do basicaly the same like Sony with their "Alpha".

Is this task a potential duplicate from T741?

We could do away with text all together and employ the Greek alphabet symbol?

"I am not convinced we need this grip bevel element here."

Well I think Thunderbolt is too proprietary. I didn't knew this previously. If there is an open source design that I can find I can probably inform this thread to everyone. What about DisplayPort to send digital signal? SDI (3G-6G and 12G) is obvious. Do we need it? I think.