Raspberry Pi Cinema Camera
By Andrew Gregory. Posted
In writing this, we’re trying very hard not to call the project ‘CinePi’; that’s the name of another, similar project which inspired this one.
It’s a cinema camera. We thought that any camera could be a cinema camera – we know that the zombie film 28 Years Later was shot partly on iPhone. But when we dug a little deeper, we found that the filming crew weren’t running around with phones in their hands. They used custom lenses and rigs, and put them into cages for protection and ease of handling.
This project uses Raspberry Pi hardware and is designed to be modular, with either a 3D-printed or aluminium body. It captures video in HD, FHD, 4K, and open gate (which captures everything going into the camera lens, rather than cropping it to a standard size).
There’s an internal 720 × 720 pixel touch LCD preview monitor and an HDMI out for attaching the camera to external monitors; threaded mounts for professional camera add-ons; an internal battery; and a whole load of features that we don’t understand but we know camera geeks will appreciate.
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