Camera 'what if?' Modular
Let’s just let our imaginations run wild.
Let’s say that we split a camera down into slices. Each slice has a wide data channel connection with power lines. There is also a series of holes through which bolts can be threaded.
Lens on the front, a lens adaptor slice (this could have all the logic and connectors to allow hook ups to Canon or Pentax or whatever,) then imaging chip, processing module, storage, and battery.
The customer buys a basic package of slices. Enough to capture an image, and store it.
Then the customer could purchase optional slices.
Maybe I want to bolt on two batteries, and or an SSD?
Maybe a shoulder mount or cooling system (The cooling system could run water through the bolt holes to pull heat out of the other components?)
Maybe I’ll move one of the battery packs behind the shoulder mount to improve balance?
Do I need the audio slice?
Maybe I’ll strip everything but the lens and imaging chip (do the processing on a workstation) and use it for a Stop-motion rig?
New form of storage is invented. Then out goes the Hard drive.
New imaging chip is released. Then slot it in, and this is where it gets interesting.
Say you were given the option of buying the chip outright or licensing it at a reduced price.
Buy it and it’s yours to own to do with what you please.
If you licence the chip, you pay a regular amount to the camera company and every couple of years an upgraded imaging chip arrives in the post.
You have to send your old chip back before the company sends you the update (if you’re a trusted customer they might send the chip out before you send the old chip back.)
Great for rental houses and studios.
The company now has a stock of two year old chips that it can re-sell or licence at a lower price. This would be for home users and film schools.
Instead of Scarlets 3K or Red Ones 4K. There is ‘cutting edge,’ ‘two year old,’ or ‘four year old’ versions of the imaging chip.
Depending on how imaging chips degrade over time, there may be an option to recycle the chips further into crash cams or whatever.
The camera company could do the same with the processing module. The latest version could have a new CPU, or logic boards, or the slice is thinner.
Older modules are available at a cheaper rate.
Essentially, we have a camera ‘platform’ which is specified by the camera company.
The company can sell it’s own branded SSD’s for instance but other manufactures could build slices for the platform based on a spec (much like the RedCode SDK,) and there could be a registration process where other manufactures can attain ‘approval’ by the camera company that manages the platform.
Duplicate post at Scarletuser.com
http://www.scarletuser.com/showpost.php?p=19991&postcount=24
Let’s say that we split a camera down into slices. Each slice has a wide data channel connection with power lines. There is also a series of holes through which bolts can be threaded.
The customer buys a basic package of slices. Enough to capture an image, and store it.
Then the customer could purchase optional slices.
Maybe I want to bolt on two batteries, and or an SSD?
Maybe a shoulder mount or cooling system (The cooling system could run water through the bolt holes to pull heat out of the other components?)
Maybe I’ll move one of the battery packs behind the shoulder mount to improve balance?
Do I need the audio slice?
Maybe I’ll strip everything but the lens and imaging chip (do the processing on a workstation) and use it for a Stop-motion rig?
New form of storage is invented. Then out goes the Hard drive.
New imaging chip is released. Then slot it in, and this is where it gets interesting.
Say you were given the option of buying the chip outright or licensing it at a reduced price.
Buy it and it’s yours to own to do with what you please.
If you licence the chip, you pay a regular amount to the camera company and every couple of years an upgraded imaging chip arrives in the post.
You have to send your old chip back before the company sends you the update (if you’re a trusted customer they might send the chip out before you send the old chip back.)
Great for rental houses and studios.
The company now has a stock of two year old chips that it can re-sell or licence at a lower price. This would be for home users and film schools.
Instead of Scarlets 3K or Red Ones 4K. There is ‘cutting edge,’ ‘two year old,’ or ‘four year old’ versions of the imaging chip.
Depending on how imaging chips degrade over time, there may be an option to recycle the chips further into crash cams or whatever.
The camera company could do the same with the processing module. The latest version could have a new CPU, or logic boards, or the slice is thinner.
Older modules are available at a cheaper rate.
Essentially, we have a camera ‘platform’ which is specified by the camera company.
The company can sell it’s own branded SSD’s for instance but other manufactures could build slices for the platform based on a spec (much like the RedCode SDK,) and there could be a registration process where other manufactures can attain ‘approval’ by the camera company that manages the platform.
Duplicate post at Scarletuser.com
http://www.scarletuser.com/showpost.php?p=19991&postcount=24
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