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by Wistar3 hours ago |
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upvoteby dagmx2 hours ago|
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Unless I’ve missed it; Lumix has nothing to do with this long standing patent battle. Could you elaborate on the supposed relationship?
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upvoteby tim--2 hours ago|
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Lumix is a brand of cameras owned by Panasonic, the people who fought this battle in court.

Don't the Lumix cameras support 4k recording with the Apple ProRES codec? https://www.dpreview.com/news/3429948804/apple-loses-patent-...

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upvoteby KennyBlanken3 hours ago|
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....what? Lumix and Red cameras have almost no market overlap. Only one model series even comes close to Red's cheapest camera.
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upvoteby Lammy21 minutes ago|
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> Lumix and Red cameras have almost no market overlap.

Wrong, in the sense that market overlap doesn't matter. Here's an example of a Micro Four Thirds camera (system stewarded by Panasonic) that had to nerf its RAW output in a firmware update due to this patent:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220828070504/http://www.person...

> Z-CAM […] violated the famous RED patent and will pay for it soon

> The ZRAW actually stores RAW directly from Bayer sensor and not YUV as claimed (conversion happens in computer software, camera stores real linear raw). It means that they actually store real RAW on Z-CAM E2!

https://web.archive.org/web/20250906030132/http://www.person...

> ZRAW is not RAW anymore.

> After firmware v0.94.1 it's an AES-encrypted MOV-container-corrupted overXORred shit, that contains only HEVC bitstream.

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upvoteby dboreham2 hours ago|
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I think you have your answer right there.
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