Please unscrew the (budget) lens unless it is glued on and see if it is an empty box.
Asking for a friend.
I like it that he said the price would be $5,000 or $3,000. Flexible.

VK you expecting good DR ?

Also wondering how many months away.....

So price wise it’ll be similar to Pana S1 which is full frame (better low light, better DR and who knows what else).

There must be a catch somewhere along the way as I am not sure how Sharp could justify such price. I hope 8k is not the only strong point this camera has.

I wonder how much lenses will cost to resolve those 8K on µ43.

That interview was very revealing.

Firstly, if that was 3D printed, the rubber doors, ports and flip out screen, would make that the best 3D print I've seen. Did your man get to handle it? If so, you can tell it's likely empty if it feels empty.

Second. Maybe what looks like a Sony mobile phone attached to it, indicates it has a Sony sensor. :)

Now, onto serious stuff, the battery door is very small. This and h265 would indicate to me ambarella derived circuit, or they have a battery with a number if tines for energy density than normal battery's. Ambarella based circuit might seem a bold prediction, but it's not. Most Japanese brands would still be licensing their designs or using their chips. Their H3 chip announced three ces's ago is 8kp30.

They say they are waiting to see if their engineers can do 60fps, really might mean they are waiting to see if ambarella's next gestation chip taps out successfully with 8kp60 (and or low energy hc3) in time to be incorporated into production. I was expecting a HC4 announcement at CES. I suspect they do announcements a while before production and wait for an order before going off the shelf, this would be order. Anyway, going on hc2 performance of in 300mb/s h264 (though the 4k+ hack yielded much lower, but that's an action camera setup) I think at least 600mb/s, even in h265 (and the private back room circuit orders might be much more powerful circuits). Maybe 9nm-7nm chip. The battery would suite that.

The current 8k 48mp Sony is being used on new $150+ phones. 8k sensors are just slabs of materials like 2k sensors, and the 0.8 micron + sized pixel pads are nowhere near the 7nm circuit limits which chops are going to. So, after all these years of them (Nokia), don't offer too much extra expense. This would be a $1000-$2000 camera, sold at nice markup at $3k.

I suspected this going be nice, because Sony usually releases a handycam with the latest, at $1000-$2000. That might mean 8k this year, h266?, and also phones. So they have to pip out the competition. So, I expect 300-600mb/s+ h265 to comfortably fit in SD cards.

The hc3 was a little power hungry for action cam use. I expect to see 8k action cam at cheaper prices this year or early next.

Vitaliy is right about similar level of picture performance. You notice that they have been shrinking pixels instead if dealt increasing picture performance on mobile phone sensors fur years. But this whole stuff about low light, with starvis sensor technology, this would have heaps of low light enough. Once you get past what the human eye can do in color vision, it really gets to a special feature for realtime work, and you light for scripted work. It's over 2 microns, that's enough for what it is. This silly stuff of nor being able to go 8k in m43rds by companies is prima dona.

Now, Red probably uses On Semi. They have their own ovens, so I would imagine they are in a "USA, USA" company. Toshiba has some deal with Sony, and their chips used by Nokia, we didn't hear about. I imagine Sony has enough new 8k sensors coming out, and this might even hit 14-15 stops?

If anybody has contacts in Sharp and could please put me in contact with them, I would like to talk with them about working on a little tiny mind blowing firmware upgrade?

P.S. About lens. I read years ago, it is harder to get a small lens to resolve high resolution, then it is for a larger lens. A lot of stuff about product pricing is hype. Doing something new that's never been done before, can be expensive, but after a while they might figure out his to do it cheaply.

I'm pretty sure that the BM Pocket 4k is using IMX299 or some variant of it.

I've missed that about the BMPCC4K. Source?

@Vitaliy is right about the lenses. The top lenses for m43 have decent resolution because you can use sensor tricks to emulate a 40mpix photo and you can see fine detail in the emulated photos.

Olympus Co., Ltd. announced on April 3 that Sharp Co., Ltd. will join Micro Four Thirds manufacturers list.

In the future, Sharp's products will be added to the Micro Four Thirds standard products. Although the specific product is not clear at this time, it has been introduced in the joining explanation of Sharp Corporation that "we are leading the 8K video technology and working on product development".

@pureaxis

We'll see :-) It is press day only.

We'll have our own interview and later detailed hands on during their event.

But 8K rolling shutter must be really bad, as only Sony has good fast proprietary interface for sensors now.

The camera is more functional that I expected and I'm surprised they gave a few out to people to just go play around and shoot with. Also allowing people to share footage instead of saying like "This is a preproduction unit so we can't share any of the files yet" is a nice change. I'm impressed by Sharp.