this would be huge for things like my old college's video dept which is currently at the whim of huge camera companies deciding when they feel like giving schools access to affordable gear one thing not mentioned is what lenses are being used, which makes a huge difference and lenses are a big money sink (with cinema grade lenses being upwards of $5k-$10k new) i'm def gonna have to do more research on this i wish we could have this kind of effort for celluloid film, which literally your only options are kodak film or old kodak film

Super 8 sensor size is too small for cinema in most cases. Wouldn’t go any smaller than 16mm sensor size. Really wish there was a higher end version. It would make more sense to have an upgradable camera when you just spent $5-10k on it.

Would buy one, love open source stuff like this

I hope we get the same treatment as more open source music DAWS and software that are just as good as FL studio, Logic or Ableton

You can set the shutter set to exactly XXX microseconds, the gain (iso) to whatever, etc. Can use your own white balance or EV/auto exposure algorithms. Pretty cool.

This is incredible. I've been waiting for proper quality DIY cameras for years. We need more variation in the market, both for photo and for cinema. Hopefully we'l get real cinema sized sensors in the future!

I can wait for new gooning material filmed using foss

The DNG files are going to be huge but I might take a look at this as I love these kinds of projects. Someone did something similar with the Canon EOS M but with that being a 10 year old camera as a base this looks like it would be a better project to sink my time into. Biggest issues would be the relatively small sensor and lens mount but for what it is this is pretty amazing. I'll be very interested to see if this gets updated for the rpi 5 (comes out in a few weeks). Edit: After some looking into it looks like people have used MFT lenses with 3d printed mounts which probably means you can use whatever you can print a mount for (within reason) so long as you get the distance right. And it's a super 8 sized sensor which isn't all that small. Now if only I had a 3d printer...

if you end up building one you should make a video on the process. I'm super intrigued

Lenses is where you need to spend the money. Cameras are more or less disposable these days, which the CinePi solves. I will keep an eye on this project for sure.

Sadly, here in Europe, the Raspberry Pi is always sold out and unobtanium. Might be easier to find an actual cinema camera in used condition and repairing it myself.

The new RPi5 and the expected upgrades of camera hardware, combined with this project ... game changer

Thank you so much for not being a soulless time sucking level 99 Grifter bro. Your the only creator who I enjoy seeing in my timeline 💯

This would be amazing for high schools and colleges to have access to professional grade cameras at less than a quarter of the cost. Especially in low income areas.

this is F*ing amazing! Thanks for letting us know ❤

For the camera sensor specifications, there is a link that is called "Datasheet" in the seller page, it is a link to a PDF

That is very very groovy. ... And, like you suggested, it will only get better.

The best part to me is that you can stock up on parts and if anything breaks you can fix it yourself~

Ooooooooo, very nice, cool, and ultimately, based.

this is totally up my alley, open source tech and film stuff, really cool. Now someone shoot a film like "The Creator" with the Sony FX3, but with the CinePI, just kidding but maybe one day it'll get there, the gap between prosumer cinema cams and the professional stuff is getting shorter.

Dang didn't realize you already got over half a million subs. Congrats Kenny. Keep it up. Cheers

You couldn't have posted this at a better time for me holy shit. I'm a compsci student looking to get into filmmaking, and searching for EXACTLY this! Thank you for this video!

Thanks for sharing this! I use Blackmagic 6Ks at work and I've shot a film on RED and used Canon cinema cameras, among many others.

Ok this is really neat project, might actually built it myself as a secondary camera

I wonder how this will compete/interact with the Apertus Axiom which has dedicated open hardware for the project. Definitely gonna make one of these though; it's affordable and available. The more open source for creatives the better.

This product is the future of consumer user products I think.

Loving the shave style, this also seems like a sick project

Dude i hope u end up making one yourself and uploading it here , really cool project

I like these projects because they push the major camera manufacturers to adopt new features and push creativity in the filmmaking world. The form factor is really interesting.

There is an interesting 80’s quality to that footage. Neat stuff. I love this

amazing! Thanks for sharing! Think of the applications! Drone photography and indie film is going to be incredible in no time soon.

This is awesome! There’s so many uses for this type of camera. I’m going to definitely try building one

Thanks for bringing this to our attention. This looks very cool, and something I can do!

This is wonderful. Pi 5 just came out too

Bro im such a tech noob but lol the way you do your videos has taught me sososososo much over the past few months (maybe a year already) since I started watching your content!

they could make it solderless by using pogo pins just like the newer mod chips used to circumvent lockdowns on modern game consoles. i would be ok with soldering as long as it is not tiny sub millimeter sized pads like you will find on some of today's circuit boards.

Awesome. I am hoping that Tech will move more in this direction, and I think it will. Something I am especially worried about is the increasing popularity of electric cars, which, so far, are basically like giant iPhones running on proprietary software. Imagine the kinds of back doors this software has. Governments, tech companies, and potentially hackers can most likely do whatever with your car, which is a scary thought, since your life literally depends on the car. Imagine a future with open-source electric vehicles. If that day ever comes, I'll finally feel safe about owning one, but until then, no thanks.

I have used it and i will relese some footage . I have a build full working is amazing

Would buy this instantly if they can get bigger sensor sizes (at least micro 4/3)

One thing I imagine it would have over any commercially sold camera would just be updates. Fixes and features could be rolled out, unlike pretty much everything else which is static for its whole life out of the box.

love ya content man, never stop being based.

This is a great project. I hope bigger sensors will be available at decent prices in the future. A real cinema camera needs at least an APS-C sensor.

You should definitely build one

This is very interesting, and I applaud the effort, though video professionals would most likely laugh at you for coming to a shoot with this thing. It'll be interesting to see how this develops over the next decade though.

We had Cinelerra for a while. Now we got the CinePi. Imagine somesay the industry standard tools will become fully open source.

Finally open source camera to make cinema movies open source easier

I would recommend the 64MP raspberry pi compatible sensor module that uses the same "gigantic" sensor as the flagship Samsung smartphones. That camera module delivers insanely good performance and ultra high res.

this rules so much. I love open source soft- & hardware

It would be interesting to see you build it if you're up for it. Also how based would you be to film yourself on a FOSS cinematic camera.

This is insane! Thank you for sharing this. I will probably build it when I have some money to spare.

I can see one application for these that theyll be unbeatable at: Cinematic FPV Drone shots. Many productions miss out on this insane tool because flying a quad with a 20k camera setup on top is something for big advertising and hollywood with fancy insurances.

For the people asking about lenses, the raspberry pi HQ camera has a c-mount which was used for 16mm cameras and I believe also some surveillance cameras might use c-mount lenses. While the sensor might technically be modular, I’m guessing the whole project is only built around raspberry pi camera modules, the software and hardware likely can’t interface with any other sensors you might find in a standard digital camera (also interfacing with a sensor actually isn’t as straightforward as you might think due to variations in read-out speed etc., idk how they want to read out a bmpcc sensor). I have experience with cinema cameras and while it’s definitely not on the level of a RED or even a black magic, this project definitely looks very interesting and I’m glad somebody is working on it. The cinema camera space is littered with proprietary software/hardware, vendor lock-in strategies and patents. I’ll look into possibly building this camera and making a video about it :)

Actually awesome! Finally have a use for mine.

Ordering all the parts. Will need to get it on my tech channel.

Please buy one and show us the entire process, that seems amazing

Sounds like free content building this for a youtube video. It's Free Real Estate.

This seems like a fun project for people to learn how cameras work, but i think it's a stretch to call it a cinema camera. The sensor being a cheap raspberry pi 8mm makes this more approachable, but more akin to a CCTV camera in terms of quality. The C lens mount is also a really weird choice, as it's almost only used on CCTV cameras today. What you really pay for when buying a "cinema" camera (whatever that means nowadays) is a ton of design, testing, build quality and calibration.

This is absolutely amazing, I'm not a tech guy but I'll try to assemble this someday (it's just I doubt that this parts available in Russia)

Nice. I have everything here. Waited for something like this.Thanks for bringing this to my attention!

This is the kinda thing that will really profit off of the Pi 5

Wow, I may have to try to cobble one of these things together. Great video as always. Thanks Outlaw.

I glad to say i have real footage of thia camera on my channel. Thanks to all that suport this technology

That's pretty cool I'm going to have to look into that...

This makes me so happy to see

At least from a technical perspective I know a lot of pro cameras use FPGAs to do some compute, would cool to see brought to mainstream. Maybe GPU programming? Mainly just because more people are familiar the development ecosystems for GPUs are a little more open than FPGAs

This is such a cool project

Cant wait for the day they allow a full frame sensor to the Pi, its a long ways away since it would destroy other camera companies ability to compete but maybe some day! If the MIPI protocol was opensourced then other people could use different boards than the official Pi which would be epic.

Super Impressed!! And this is Why i am a fucking Huge fan of yours and have been for a very very long time now Thanks so much as always man you Aced it! Yet again fucking mint i'd love one

not the only the output makes a camera pro - its the interfaces(SDI, XLR, other), the ease of use, reliability, audio\video codecs(LOG, RAW, 10bit, HDR)

Any reason the come and find it shirt isn't available in long sleeve?

please build one of these for the channel... id love to see more things about open source video production. I'm currently in the process of abandoning adobe for davinci resolve and something like this would be great to free me from canon

thanks for the video kenny :)

Gamechanger for sure. It's like building your own PC, but with a Camera. I got a feeling this is going to become the norm as time goes on.

Wow!!! Thanks for the news

I want to build one now!

Holy crap, I've been drooling over professional cinema cameras like Blackmagic URSA/pocket cinema but can't even acquire one due to price, now I know what to do after getting a 3D printer.

Bigger sensor and options to mount professional lenses could make this something worthwhile for video shooting

get this camera bro. would love to see some 4k chicken content

This is really cool, there is another project doing this to canon cameras called magic lantern. And there is a guy IMCE that built an enclosure for the EOSM granted he's just selling them. They're not open source unfortunately

Unimaginably based

traditional film runs at 24 FPS which would help with data. TV and home video use higher framerates which, through association with the convention, people tend to see as looking "cheaper." Most movies are still shot in 24p.

This is very cool I’d definitely want to learn how to make this. The IMX477 is what comes with the RaspberryPi HQ camera and it’s quite good but definitely not cinema quality. I actually use it for my drone have a couple videos of it here on my channel.

Yes! build one. The vimeo video was shaky but otherwise, the video quality is sweet.

there should be like, an Open Source Hardware shop online, where people can make a (down)payment on a completed & tested as functioning build from some opensource design listed there. makers all over the world can make parts & organise the assembly & testing until sent to the customer. might require blockchain-technology🤔

i know im gonna get flak for asking this but what makes this better than say a modern mid to high end phone camera? access to lenses?

Thanks for doing this video and bringing this to our attention. A full frame sensor or larger such as medium or large format sensor, and HDMI output would be nice.

10:20 yes, but the shake makes me seasick. Stabilization is an issue, but I can see this project taking off, couple it with a vintage lens like a Helios 44m and you could get some crazy interesting footage.

This would be the best dashcam in existance. Sure it's a bit larger but seems like with a compact case it would still easily fit

Rather interesting project... considering it uses the sensor similar in size to one inside GoPro Hero4 Black, with the features and video capabilities according.

Very interesting project. I would love to see you try and put this together and do a little photography yourself.

Epic

I hope it will support the latest pi soon

Very cool. I hope that in the future there's an alternative to Cinema dng tho. That file format is gargantuan

bro it might be good to try making this as a project on the channel and seeing the diff with what u currently have.

This looks like a Pi based product has caught up to the Bolex D16 from a decade earlier. It would be interesting to see a full list of sensors with CSI2 connections that can work with this project, especially some of the Global Shutter units that go under used for action cinematographry.

neat thing to build ccd sensor on

Please build one yourself!! We want to see more

The project is amazing, but after using this setup for a time, I went back to my BMPCC original. The rolling shutter is awful on the IMX477, and the RPI 4 was too unstable for long recording sessions.

1Very interesting, thanks for posting

Put it on a DJI Ronin and there u goooo :D Love such kind of projects.