Thanks for the kudos, Anthony. Appreciated.
I have seen footage from this camera. It's beautiful and the dynamic range and latitude is serious business. No, I haven't yet shot with it in a chromakey environment, but the fact is, the camera is real, it shoots beautiful footage as mentioned, and translating that into equally beautiful chromakey production is only logical. There's absolutely no reason at this point that the camera will not shoot equally fantastic footage on a chromakey set as it does in normal production. Additionally, being that it is 12-bit RAW debayered to 4:4:4 only means that we will not have to deal with the artifacts that plague 4:2:2 or much worse, 4:2:0. This isn't a guessing game or a hypothetical, it's based on reviewed footage and logical reasoning.
I will totally agree that there have been cases where new camera "X" comes out promising grandiose quality before it's manufactured, only to fall short in real world scenarios. But again, I've seen the footage of this camera. It's the real deal. All I can say for now is, if this camera doesn't shoot spectacular chromakey footage, I'll gladly pay $30k minimum for the next best camera that does.
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