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Chronos User Discussion / New to Chronos 2.1 questions
« on: June 20, 2019, 07:32:48 PM »
hi, I don't know very much about the new Chronos, but it seems like quite a camera.
A while back I was keen to buy an old slightly faulty (that needed to be continuously connected to a laptop to work) 2k phantom that was eBay a year or two ago, but the price it ended up going for was 10k if I remember.
Looking at the specs of the phantom, the chronos is not completely out its league. sure the old phantom does 2000fps and has a super 35mm sensor, but the chronos 2.1 Can use a Speedbooster for the s35mm look, which will turn its Base ISO to 1600, and its less than a 1/4 of the weights, and only is 5k usd new. It shares the same dynamic range of 10 stops - same as the phantom.
Can someone help me with these questions?
1/ do you have to trigger the camera at the start of an event, or can you trigger after something happens? Ie like the Sony fs700? It is very useful to trigger after when you have something happening and you cant predict!
whoops, I can answer this, I didn't realise there was a second page to the tech PDF!
2/ Is there any samples of DNGS from the camera so I can see what the footage grades like? You tube doesn't quite do the footage justice.
3/ Can the camera be used as a normal camera when shot at reasonable frame rates, ie 24-30 fps?
yes, I have found the answer
4/ After the camera has been triggered- say for the 5 secs it records, with a very fast SD card, how long wouldI be expected to wait for 5 secs of 1080p DNGs to copy over? I know you guys may not have the camera, but someone who has the older camera kind of know- is the expected wait going very painful? will it 30 sec's or many minutes?
5/ I know there is some talk in some posts about a micro 4/3rds mount, is this available, or do I need to adapt from c-mount somehow? I would be keen to use a 0.64x metabones with canon full frame glass. What exactly is c-mount? an old screw in mount?
6/ What output is available for monitoring with an external screen? There's HDMI- but what does this output? 1080p? The screen on the back is not enough res to really work and focus easily.
7/ Does anyone make a cage for this to mount accessories?
Thanks for any answers, cheers Paul
A while back I was keen to buy an old slightly faulty (that needed to be continuously connected to a laptop to work) 2k phantom that was eBay a year or two ago, but the price it ended up going for was 10k if I remember.
Looking at the specs of the phantom, the chronos is not completely out its league. sure the old phantom does 2000fps and has a super 35mm sensor, but the chronos 2.1 Can use a Speedbooster for the s35mm look, which will turn its Base ISO to 1600, and its less than a 1/4 of the weights, and only is 5k usd new. It shares the same dynamic range of 10 stops - same as the phantom.
Can someone help me with these questions?
whoops, I can answer this, I didn't realise there was a second page to the tech PDF!
2/ Is there any samples of DNGS from the camera so I can see what the footage grades like? You tube doesn't quite do the footage justice.
yes, I have found the answer
4/ After the camera has been triggered- say for the 5 secs it records, with a very fast SD card, how long wouldI be expected to wait for 5 secs of 1080p DNGs to copy over? I know you guys may not have the camera, but someone who has the older camera kind of know- is the expected wait going very painful? will it 30 sec's or many minutes?
5/ I know there is some talk in some posts about a micro 4/3rds mount, is this available, or do I need to adapt from c-mount somehow? I would be keen to use a 0.64x metabones with canon full frame glass. What exactly is c-mount? an old screw in mount?
6/ What output is available for monitoring with an external screen? There's HDMI- but what does this output? 1080p? The screen on the back is not enough res to really work and focus easily.
7/ Does anyone make a cage for this to mount accessories?
Thanks for any answers, cheers Paul