From 19.04 till 5.05 I’ll be in Saint Petersburg, editing sound of my movie “When New Year comes on Shabbat” and participating in some activities of the Upward! community.

One of them is the screening of the two movies, and I was DoP at one of this movies.

Well, I knew that putting my money in Digital Bolex Kickstater’s project just few days before NAB is risky. But then I saw prices of Canon’s C500 and 1D Cinema, and I thought that there couldn’t be two miracles in one time. And I can always sell Digital Bolex and buy that 5D Mark III.
Seems like there is a place for two miracles.

I made this table according to specs from internet, mostly by copy-paste. Specs of Digital Bolex are subject to change (and to improve), camera is still in developing stage.

update: I found this two huge discussions about this cameras, mostly about BlackMagic: on EOSHD and on dvxuser.

update2: Here is the reply from Joe Rubinstein, one of the creators of Digital Bolex.

	Digital Bolex D16	Blackmagic Cinema Camera
Resolution	2336 x 1752 (4×3), 2048 x 1152 (Super 16mm mode) + 1920 x 1080 pixels (16mm mode)	2.5K RAW at 2432 x 1366, compressed at 1920 x 1080
Format	Adobe Cinema DNG, TIFF, JPEG Image sequences	RAW 2.5K CinemaDNG, compressed Apple ProRes and Avid DNxHD. All compressed recording in 1920×1080 10-bit YUV with choice of Film or Video Dynamic Range.
Colour depth	12 bit – 4:4:4. 12 stops	12-bit. 13 stops
Sensor	2336 x 1752, Kodak CCD: 12.85 mm (H) x 9.64 mm (V) – Similar to Super 16mm	2592 x 2192, CMOS. 16.64 mm x 14.04 mm, active 15.6 mm x 8.8 mm. “It does have a rolling shutter, and it’s there if you look for it, but I’d say that it’s no worse than on any other camera at this price point.”
Pixel size	5.5 micron
Framerate	up to 32 fps at 2K, 60fps at 720p, 90 fps at 480p	23.98p, 24p, 25p, 29.97p, 30p
ISO options	100, 200, 400	400, 800, 1600. Native – 800
Sound	Balanced, 2 channel, 16 bit (“most likely adding 24 bit audio recording, this isn’t 100% yet but seems possible”), 48 kHz via XLR (2)	Analog 2 x 1/4” jacks for professional balanced analog audio (switchable to AES/EBU digital), switchable between mic and line levels. 4 channels in HD-SDI, 48 kHz and 24 bit.
Viewfinder	320×240, 2.4” diagonal, might be with Focus Assist, might be B/W	5″ and 800 x 480 resolution, Integrated LCD capacitive touchscreen, Focus button turns on peaking
Video out	Mini-HDMI 1920×1080, might be B/W. 640 x 480 B&W via ⅛” video jack. HD-SDI avail in separate unit	Video 1 x 10-bit HD-SDI 4:2:2 with choice of Film or Video Dynamic Range. Thunderbolt port for capture of RAW video and audio.
Ports	headphone, USB 3.0 (for firmware updates, but can be used for downloading files from the camera also)	1 x 3.5mm stereo headphone output, USB 2.0 mini B port for software updates and configuration.
Remote control		1 x 2.5mm LANC for Rec Start/Stop, Iris Control and Focus Control
Data Storage	Dual SD card slots, SSD (buffer and backup drive)	Removable 2.5” SSD
Power	Internal battery, 12V External via 4 pin XLR port. 12v DC output for accessories	Integrated Lithium-ion Polymer rechargeable battery. 12V-30V DC port for external battery power or use included 12V AC adapter.
Mount	Interchangeble. C-mount comes standard; Optional PL, EF, B4. May be some more to come. No information about iris control at EF yet	EF and ZE (obviously Zeiss Canon) mount compatible with electronic iris control. They plan to do PL mount and possible m4/3 down the road.
Microphone and speaker		Integrated mono
Mounting options	1/4″ thread tripod mount on the bottom of the camera (and on the bottom of the pistol grip?) 2 x cold shoes on the top and on the left side of the camera	3 x 1/4″ thread mounting points on top of camera. 1 x 1/4″ thread tripod mount with locator pin.
Metadata Support		Automatic camera data and user data such as shot number, filenames and keywords
Controls	Physical buttons (up-right-left-down and few more). Lovely crank (will be programable to anything the menu controls)	Onscreen touch menus and physical buttons for recording and transport control
Camera Dimensions	Approximately 5”H (without pistol grip) by 4”W by 8”D. (~127×101.6×203.2mm)	166.2mm by 113.51mm x 126.49mm excluding detachable sunshade and turret dust cap
Camera Weight	5lbs (~2.26 kg)	1.7 kg / 3.75 lb
Body	magnesium aluminum alloy
Accessories	Pistol grip, 5”H by 2”W by 5”D, free	Blackmagic Cinema Camera Handles, $195
Also in the box	pistol grip, USB 3.0 cable, internal battery, 4 pin XLR Battery, cable, video cable, transcoder/raw conversion software Kickstarter buyers also receiving leather carrying case and additional lens mount (EF or PL)	Detachable sun shield, camera strap, turret dust cap and 12V AC adapter. DaVinci Resolve grading software including Resolve USB dongle for Mac OS X and Windows. Media Express software for video capture from the camera’s Thunderbolt port. Blackmagic UltraScope software for waveform monitoring from the camera’s Thunderbolt port.
Price	$2500 for early Kickstaters (available in August 2012), estimated $3299 (available in November 2012), international shipping in early 2013	$2995, available end of July 2012

And pictures.

One way ticket to Moscow – 19.09.

In plans – Georgia, Saint Petersburg and Europe.

Poor Carax…

Two parts of 5-parts movie. I’m telling to my less than 1 year old daughter stories about my life:
1. About love.
2. How I came to Israel.
3. About childhood.
4. About future.
5. About Peter (Peter Zhukov is my friend and author of the idea of this movie).

Both ‘Alice in the Cities’ and ‘The Princess and the Warrior’ has scenes shot at Wuppertal Schwebebahn – so know I have to visit that place.

Tuffi (c. 1947 – 1989) was a female circus elephant that became famous in Germany in 1950 when she jumped from the suspended monorail in Wuppertal into the river below.

On 21 July 1950 the circus director Franz Althoff had Tuffi, then 3 years old, take the Schwebebahn in Wuppertal, as a marketing gag. The elephant apparently did not enjoy the ride, trumpeted wildly and ran through the wagon, broke through a window and fell some 12 metres (39 ft) down into the Wupper river, suffering only minor injuries. A panic had broken out in the wagon and some passengers were injured. Althoff helped the elephant out of the water. Both the circus director and the official who had allowed the ride were fined.

Tuffi was sold to Cirque Alexis Gruß in 1968; she died there in 1989.

To this day, a manipulated picture[1][2][3] of the fall circulates around the world and a building near the location of the incident, between the stations Alter Markt and Adlerbrücke, shows a painting of Tuffi. A local milk-factory has chosen the name as a brand.

The Wuppertal tourist information keeps an assortment of Tuffi-related souvenirs, local websites show original pictures.

In 1970 Marguerita Eckel and Ernst-Andreas Ziegler published a Children’s picture book about the incident, named Tuffi und die Schwebebahn.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SnorriCam