I touched on Spheron’s camera when announced at Siggraph, but didn’t have any photos at the time I heard the buzz.  Then a couple weeks later Sean Thigpen out of Atlanta was kind enough to send me some photos of Spheron’s High Dynamic Range Video Camera that he took while at Siggraph.  I’ve uploaded both of them to this link: http://tr.im/BISo

The camera is in prototype mode still, but it will release in 2010.  The price will be insanely expensive and out of reach of mere mortals, but I am impressed with the fact that it exists nonetheless.  I’m looking forward to a day in the future when this kind of power will be able to be as portable and priced like a RedONE or less.

I’ve done some half baked work flows that pale in comparison to what the hdrv can capture, but I have managed to capture what is the closest thing to HDR Video using a D3.  At some point I’ll have to take the time to upload those samples so they can be reviewed.

The specs of Spheron’s hdrv are displayed on one of the images, but if you happen to be reading this via email or from a phone I’ll bullet point them now:

• 20 f-stops of dynamic range
• full HD resolution, 1920 x 1080
• 30 frames per second
• fiber coupled storage unit
• (records over 5 hours of uncompressed video data)

http://www.SPHERON.com