More contrast with Atomos Shogun Flame and Flame Ninja
[13:59 Mon,21.March 2016 by Rudi Schmidts]
The addendum "Flame" at Atomos describes the new generation of the popular 4K recorder Shogun and Ninja Assassin, which should be coming soon verfuegbar already commercially. The remarkable innovation of new Atomos recorder generation is the particularly bright, high-contrast display. Opposite far 400 nit the new FullHD IPS display produces almost four times brighter nit with rich 1,500. This makes the whole meaning also brings Atomos for the display with a specific, LUT similar feature called AtomHDR. The user only has to dial your input format, so for example, S-log2 / 3 or C-Log and the recorder will try at a display custom dynamic correction. One sees thus marking a log equalization in the live preview, but not according to REC709 but precisely in the dynamic area of u200bu200bthe Flame displays.The latter supports the way, not true 10 bit, but 8-bit + FRC, which looks virtually as good in our experience. We could already take a first look at the two recorders and were thereby in fact an extremely dynamic image with very pleasant colors to face. As interesting side aspect, the new models are likely to hit very well in bright sunlight. PIC 1: Atomos Ninja Shogun Flame and Flame The Gehaeuse been revised slightly, where first the now firmly integrated "Stossdaempfer" (Bumper) catch the eye. Also the display glass now includes no longer flush with the Gehaeuseseite from, but is a few millimeters sunk in the Shells, so it should be significantly better protected from a fall on the floor. At second glance, you can see new details of how the nowback out guided electricity, which was read easily "taken" when SSD change. PIC 2: The power supply is now behind the lower battery can provide the way for an inclined state. For this find at the back of now two batteries space, of which during operation of a can be changed respectively. The lower battery can now serve as a standing aid for the Flame models that characterized inclined at an (albeit fixed) angle make for a solid stand on the table. The new models Flame solve it from the old Shogun Assasin and which are now only sold off. As prices 1695 euros called for the Shogun Flame and 1295 euros for the Ninja Flame. The Shogun Flame differs here via inter alia, by additional SDI and XLR connections (