On a quest for a smaller hand held rig that was capable of producing the kind of phenomenal images that I have been accustom to seeing from RED, I stumbled on these guys. A couple of swedish filmmakers founded a company called ikonoskop and recently announced their latest creation at IBC. The A-cam dii carries a 16mm sized 2/3 CCD sensor (from Kodak) that is can crank out 1920 x 1080 uncompressed RAW DNG files up to 60 frames per second with an interchangeable mount all packed into this uniquely designed hand held unit…this could be exactly what I am looking for.

The Si-2k from silicon imaging looks appealing as well but after following Anthony Dod Mantle and Danny Boyle’s workflow on Slumdog Millionaire it seams to be too complex for my resources available. They used the tools they had available at the time to the best of there ability and it certainly paid off but I need a rig that operates out of the box with a workflow I can manage without being tethered to a laptop packed in 45 pounds of dry ice a day! Lots more to follow.

• http://www.ikonoskop.com/dii/
• (Ikonoskop website and info)
  
• http://www.macvideo.tv/camera-technology/features/index.cfm?articleid=104645
• (video Interview with Ikonoskop a-cam debut at IBC)
  
• http://freshdv.dreamhosters.com/audio/interview/freshdv_ikonoskop_acamdii_interview.mp3
• (podcast spot light with Daniel Jonsäter, co founder of Ikonoskop)
• http://www.retrothing.com/2008/09/ikonoskop-a-cam.html
• (Retor Thing tech article)

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