alt Hacker News....what? Lumix and Red cameras have almost no market overlap. Only one model series even comes close to Red's cheapest camera.
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dboreham • today at 4:07 AM
I think you have your answer right there.
....what? Lumix and Red cameras have almost no market overlap. Only one model series even comes close to Red's cheapest camera.
I think you have your answer right there.
> Lumix and Red cameras have almost no market overlap.
Wrong, in the sense that market overlap doesn't matter. Here's an example of a Micro Four Thirds camera (system stewarded by Panasonic) that had to nerf its RAW output in a firmware update due to this patent:
https://web.archive.org/web/20220828070504/http://www.person...
> Z-CAM […] violated the famous RED patent and will pay for it soon
> The ZRAW actually stores RAW directly from Bayer sensor and not YUV as claimed (conversion happens in computer software, camera stores real linear raw). It means that they actually store real RAW on Z-CAM E2!
https://web.archive.org/web/20250906030132/http://www.person...
> ZRAW is not RAW anymore.
> After firmware v0.94.1 it's an AES-encrypted MOV-container-corrupted overXORred shit, that contains only HEVC bitstream.