Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/15

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Subject: RE: [Leica] WKs 7,8 Includes picture of new film camera fromFrance
From: "Austin Franklin" <austin@darkroom.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 07:04:21 -0500
 
> > Beyond just the camera, the processing equipment
> requirement necessary to
> > deal with this kind of data is pretty stiff I would think.
>
> Yeah, but if the camera body alone sets you back some $15,000
> that buys a
> lot of stuff.  Something like a Mac G4 with their non-linear
> movie editing
> software (not iMovie, the Final Cut pro stuff) would surely
> be enough.  I
> think the software is around a grand, by comparison.

I don't believe any Mac will be able to handle anything much above DV, the
data rate and volume of data is too high.  If it did handle it, it would be
pretty slow and costly (you would need 10 or more 72G disks at least to do
any decent capture/editing) I would guess.