The Open Source video community can soon (well, in August next year) add another awesome tool to their arsenal. The project needed €100,000 and raised €174.000.
The goal of the community driven apertus° project is to create a variety of powerful, free (in terms of liberty) and open cinema tools that we as filmmakers love to use. The idea of building an open cinema camera using an Elphel camera for this particular purpose was born in 2006, found many followers over the years and ultimately resulted in this project entitled "apertus" (word definition) and this website.
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Interesting. Great concept. Clever usage of the degree symbol. And congratulations towards reaching your crowdfunding goal.
Bart, you may want to remove "(word definition)" or link it back to http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/apertus as it does in their site. As it is it just looks weird.
Very interesting project... but have Blackmagic got there first with a relatively cheap cinema camera?
I think so, I got a Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera and after spending some time to composite the video, the results are amazing!