{"id":39341,"date":"2019-03-16T17:34:38","date_gmt":"2019-03-16T17:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/?p=39341"},"modified":"2020-02-10T16:04:16","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T16:04:16","slug":"fran8k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/fran8k\/","title":{"rendered":"“Review” of the camera that never really was…The Cinemartin Fran 8K"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I was asked by Cinemartin about a year ago if I was interested in reviewing their recently announced 8K cinema camera. What? Cinemartin, the company who mostly just rebrand chinese monitors were making an 8K cinema camera? You bet I would like to check it out! This was so bizarre that I was incredibly curious.<\/p>\n

Fast forward to February and it arrived. I was aware it was in a very unfinished state but nothing prepared me for the head fuck that trying to use this camera was. I documented it on camera of course but I wasn’t planning on editing it and releasing it until I had another look at the camera further down the line when it worked. Sadly that will never now happen as Cinemartin announced they were going bankrupt last last night.<\/p>\n

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There are no other details but I did have to return the camera urgently to them as it was an asset. I hadn’t actually touched it since then but was due to return it. It has now gone and with the announcement of the bankruptcy I decided to put together what I had shot as a bit of a footnote in camera history.<\/p>\n

RIP Frank 8K, you had huge ambitions but sadly we will never see if they were all talk or not.<\/p>\n

Check out my review below and also have a look at the in depth technical look at the same camera by Red Shark News.<\/a><\/p>\n

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