The KineRAW S35 is designed in China and JH from Kinefinity was gracious enough to pay a visit to my home in Beijing with the camera for this interview. We previously reported on the prototype of this camera about a year about at the BIRTV trade show in Beijing. Since then it has gone through many changes and is much closer to being a real camera. The body has changed in design and the specifications are looking good.
The headline spec of this camera is that it has a Super35 sized sensor similar to the Arri Alexa, Sony F3, FS700 or Canon C300. It shoots in a choice or codecs – either Cineform Raw 10bit (edit – JH tells me this is now 12bit) or Cinema DNG 12bit. Recorded resolution is 2K – slightly higher than 1080P HD. Cineform is now part of GoPro so it’s interesting to see Kinefinity using the codec.