Fujifilm's been quiet about
its upcoming medium format cinema camera, but it's trickling out just 10 initial features. These include: an optical lowpass filter, available sensor formats, in-camera codecs, custom LUTs, film simulations, film simulation-based 3D LUTs, custom framing guidelines, remote multi-camera control, Bluetooth, and LCD / on-board menu display specs.
Much of that sounds typical for any high-end cinema camera, but of course Fujifilm is flexing its film simulation muscles.
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