Canon 7D BNC-R Cine HD.
Clock work.
Production company: Bonnieco AB
Producer/director: Harald Strömfelt
Photograph: Martin Grafström
Stylist: Pontus Djanaieff
Agency: Frankenstein
These films where shot with the 7D BNC-R, Super baltar lenses and a diopter. The films are part of a web campain for the swedish luxury watch company, Sandströms. The depth of field and the crisp look is a great reference for 7D BNC-R Macro work. There are some moare issues but not mor than what could come out of a regular film telecine process. So all in all, this shows that the camera and those lenses work great for table top shoots.
Press release 20091228
The III generation of the Syndicate Canon BNC-R and PL Cine HD cameras are ready to be shipped as soon as we return from our christmas holidays. This are improved versions now available in our paypal store. Out of the first batch most cameras allready have names on them due to pre orders. Second batch will be ready to ship mid jan.
Look out for this Con Artist...
There is a person pretending to be providing a 7D PL mount camera for 2000USD at www.BuySell.com. The seller use our pictures and content text for marketing. The problem is that the camera he is trying to sell only exist in our office. His email is: abbigail.keger@hotmail.com
Below is the real deal only available from Syndicate.
Syndicate 7D Cinematic PL
PL-Mount now on Ebay!
PL-mount now available on EBAY! First in the world that we know to support all PL-lenses.
Syndicate 7D Cinematic BNC-R
Syndicate 7D Cinematic PL with HDMI 222mb/s recorder.
Now Syndicate have a thier "7D_PL_Beta_Uno" with 19mm RODMOUNT available for rent.
The price is 3500SEK/day. Battery / Battery charger, memorycard / reader and mount is included in the package. This is a "perfect directors view finder" or B camera for any 35mm film maker. This is according to DSLR forums and other sources the only real Canon 7D camera with PL mount on the planet. Here at Syndicate we belive that the highspeed BNC-R lenses are a better solution for the DSLR's due to the better projection and flanch distance, but people requested a PL version so here it is. The "Syndicate 7D PL BETA DOIS" will be available to buy shortly trough ebay auction in a series of 10 numbered cameras.
Syndicate 7D Cinematic PL rod mount.
Syndicate 7D Tool now available!
We're proud to present the release of the first version of the Syndicate 7D Tool. The software will allow you to convert your uncompressed HDMI captured 7D footage into an original 24p or 25p stream.
Hit the link for information on what you need and how to do it and a more in-depth description of the software as well as download.
Press release 2009-11-05
Syndicate proudly presents thier DUO7D3D Stereoscopic camera solution.
The first sterioscopic Syndicate rig, DUO7D3D.
A ready to rumble solution for 3D cinematic imagery The dual 7D head is now calibrated and delivers footage that is very keen on the eyes. Again the small sized cameras and the low noise / high ISO is a solution ideal for Stereoscopic films. This is the first out of two 3D rigs syndicate will start to produce. It covers the above 120 mm in between eyes distance. Then next step is a mirror solution covering 0-120 mm eye distance. The clips bellow are all post rendered to be viewed with the old school cyan/red kind of 3D glasses. The two streams can off-course be rendered in any shape for any kind of dual projection i.e polarized or one screen per eye etc.
Down scaled single frame DUO7D3D source footage.
Ignore the bad Stockholm / November weather and lightning conditions. The files bellow are downscaled and compressed quicktimes files, off-course the full 1920x1080 resolution is providing a better result.
Press release 2009-11-04
The Syndicate 7D-3D Stereoscopic camera is in the making. Dual headed camera rig with two 7D bodies. Synchronized focus is in the making and test clips will be uploaded tomorrow Friday. So if you have some 3D glasses some where it's high time to go and get them. Now it's late and wee need to sleep, we thought we would manage to upload some quicktimes here today but it has to wait until tomorrow. Not enough light and sleep is needed. So for now those two pictures will be all. We think it's the first 7D-3D solution on the web at least we been searching and have not seen anything like it.
The Syndicate 7D-3D stereoscopic camera system is now available to rent.
The back of the stereo system with a center handle right in between the LCD's.
Press release 2009-11-03
David Kvart from Hobby Factory rents the Syndicate 7D BNR-R Cine HD system with the Matrox HDMI recorder and shoots green screen with DOP Martin Grafström. The production was later posted at Syndicate. The green screen was lit with simple lighting and the extreme low noise level in the images from the uncompressed matrox footage from the 7D sensor provides a key channel that beats competitors like RED or celluloid footage by far. This proves the theory that the HDMI 7D reconstructed source is optimal for chroma key shooting. It provides a far better picture source at a fraction of the cost of any other camera at this date.
BNC-R 7D matrox at filmhuset green screen stage in stockholm.
One click chroma key in flame. with relativly poor values of green in the source footage.
Press release 2009-11-02
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Press release 2009-10-29
Today syndicate finalized their BNR-R 185 degree lens. So now the camera package includes a superb panoramic imaging system. The lens comes with a rig that shoots a 360x360 degree moving panoramas in 3 instances. It will be VR clips available here shortly.
Press release 2009-10-16
Syndicate are now able to capture 7D material uncompressed 4:2:2 onto a macbook pro 17" at any 7D frame rate. The 60i HDMI stream is captured via a matrox box and then analyzed and post processed into clean progressive frames at recorded frame rate trough a Syndicate proprietary software. The service is available for all syndicate clients from this date.
Press release 2009-10-02
Syndicate are proud to be first on the planet to present a Canon 7D with BNC-R lens mount.
The complete system is out for rent for all Syndicate clients for as little as 3500 SEK a day. This system features two sets of prime lenses. The cinematic lenses gives a great look and the benefit's of precision focus pulling. A ican 7" monitor for DOP / focus puller. A client reference monitor and the matrox HD uncompressed recorder. Memory cards and a fast portable hard drive for uncompressed recordings. Basically all you need to shoot. Except the macbook pro.
To rent the gear with a DIT and Final cut station cost 8500SEK a day.
7D modified with a BNC-R mount is now available to order for $4000.
Above is a pic of the camera with the most usefull 7" monitor.
To view the test clips bellow it is advicable to download the clips by ctrl+ click and sellect : "save target as". since the the resolution is greater than most most screens.
The clips above are just shot at our office with no additional lights. All clips are source files straight from the camera. all shot in 24P / 1920x1080. Also within days (20091008) Syndicate will present uncompressed recording for 7D. This will be an optimal solution for chroma shoots and other compression sensitive scenarios.
More pictures
The BNC-R mount on the modifed Canon 7D head in closeup.
The Canon BNC-R Megamouth 2010 smiles to the camera.
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Impressive captures, but why are you capturing 1620x910? Is this a by-product of the de-interlacing? The Coke bottle shot has got me worried about image distortion within the frame during a pan tilt. Could it have been introduced in the 60i to 24P/25P conversion in post? I saw that problem on the Nikon D70 off it's sensor. It would be great to see this warpage issue tested out. I need to get my hands on a camera even better with this mount.
Awesome start to an interesting solution. Please post more. Thanks, adkins.dop@mac.com
1620x1080 would be fine by me with my anamorphics at a 3:1 ratio instead of 3.5:1... Less waste to get to 2.40:1. 1080 is the key because scaling creates more havoc than cropping. When do they predict a new firmware...? Just like the 5D getting 24p in a few months with firmware. This is all really good to know, I feel very optimistic about what you are doing.
I saw some 7D capture on the CF card with Canons' compression and I felt the diagonals were a bit aliasing in Times Square, but I don't see that here... Is that your conclusion too? I would love to see a grid test shot with a pan and tilt to rule out distortion and a resolution chart shot diagonally to check out what I see as an issue or at what stage things are introduced or eliminated. Just an idea from the other side of the Atlantic.
How did the sharp production shoot go?
2. What are usually the render times for an average clip when using your script?
3. Also would it be at all possible to get a download of that script so we can possibly make other tests with our 7D's.
4. And would it be to much for you guys to possibly do a tutorial on this workflow. If we could get our 7D's to put out images like this, we could get alot more from our cams than we are currently. As we say More BANG for your BUCK $$$
Many Thanks
Mark
resetfilms
Do you have an estimate for the Mac Osx release and if bought now would the PC license carry over later for a possible future release. The only other question I have is for offline would you post using the native framerate to maintain picture lock when replacing the original files with the newly converted files. Or will the material need eye matched.
Thanks again.
Mark
In any case, the license will be transferable to Mac, and will work with future versions aswell, up to a point. There is also the possibility that once that version is up and running all future updates will go in there only, due to the (probably) higher demand for that platform. But for this version, depending on needs and sales, will most likely contain conversion based on an EDL instead of whole files, automatic sync and removal of the red dot, given the right h.264 file, and possibly automatic selection of that file. Also, some kind of UI, other than the command-line tool will probably happen.
A.) Will this software work on this new camera? (I am trying to find out if the HDMI out on the 1D Mark IV is the same as the 7D).
B.) Are you going to test with the 1D mark IV to see if it works?
Mark Patten UK based DP
It will work with 5D and magic lantern that gives you full 1920 HDMI from the 5D.
This program could be driven by a child or actually totaly by it self and it is better than any raptor och other Video assist capture out there.
THX very much, Looking forward to see what could be improved in the next release. I have to figure out something to ask for. :)
Mark Nelson, LA digital.