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The danger with the KineRAW MINI is that there’s going to be a huge support overhead due to the sheer number of features it packs in. If you are developing something as complex as a cinema camera and have a small team with smaller budget than the bigger players, it’s better to focus on a few very core features and refine those, than stretch yourself too thin. But I actually think the minimalist zen-like approach of Blackmagic has benefits. Many Blackmagic users have bemoaned the lack of basic features like audio meters, which still aren’t in any firmware updates.

#KINE RAW MINI FREE#

No other camera company is as nimble and politics free as Kinefinity. I had gone to sleep after sending the email, woke up and it was fixed and waiting to be downloaded.

#KINE RAW MINI UPDATE#

One bug I reported was fixed and added to a firmware update in 24 hours. It’s a natural process for a new camera and I’ve never seen a higher work ethic. The good news is that Kinefinity have been unbelievably responsive in listening to feedback, refining hardware and developing firmware updates. There’s amazing complexity and a feature list longer than a Blackmagic waiting list but the basic fundamental stuff like being able to get smooth monitoring above 20fps and having a record button that works when you want it to, was sadly missing from my test camera. For me (in my opinion) it just has too much going on, and too slowly. Let’s get my reservations out straight away about this camera. You can pack features in but there’s a compromise in terms of crowding out the camera with complexity. You can take features away and focus on making the ones you do have work fluidly.

The minimalist approach and the feature rich approach. Is the KineRAW MINI the early stages of a new Arri? A Chinese cinema camera industry? It has an option for 4K to an external record (Q1 2014) and it’s a powerful piece of kit, though I have some reservations about usability. The MINI is a smaller cut down version of their S35, shooting 2K uncompressed raw to SSD from a Super 35mm sensor. Aside from Blackmagic there’s only one other company endeavouring to give us affordable cinema cameras at the moment and that’s Kinefinity.

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