Hack only Firmware 3.1 only the exact Size and fps Lower Fw Kills the Camera ...Overheat

The hack only work with FW 0.31.--With the other FW you risk a frozen or Kill your cam

The individual hack only change a very specific resolution. The cumulative hack only combines several resolutions.

Find out for yourself which : Resolutions - Frame rate and formats hack supports .

If you don't know exactly what you're doing with a hack, you risk turning your camera into a brick

@storyboardcreativity Thanks so much for your awesome reverse engineering work!!

I’m trying to squeeze every last drop of performance out of this camera. It’s challenging I’m not gonna lie!

I used your UHD 4K 100Mbps script. It works well.

There are still issues I have with the image coming from this camera. The color fidelity is very off - showing lots of pink and green splotches in the shadow areas. I noticed that this is a very noisy sensor and maybe this color artifact comes from their 3D noise reduction. I saw earlier in this thread that you were making progress with disabling that. Have you managed to do so? I think if the chroma noise was more uniform the artifact would be less noticeable.

Also, I’m recording at 100 ISO, but I still get more sensor noise than I would expect at such a low ISO. Is the camera lying to me? I hope to get the sensor to record with no, to very low gain so that I can get back light using fast full frames lenses + speedbooster. Do you think you’d be able to investigate if we can get ISO less than 100?

Here’s a video sample:

thanks for the test result with the noise, you are probably right. the sensor of the E1 sometimes gets over 50 C during operation, the iphone app shows the sensor temp, because every sensor is noisy higher temp-higher Noise ,Blackmagic Cams have better cooling .

The 100mps makes itself felt drastically with movements and fast light changes by changing from a fixed 50 mps to a variable 100 mps. with static image without much movement you still have 50-60Mps with a lot of fast movements, it rises drastically to over 100Mps. Without mod, a lot of moving artifacts appear .

the processor in the E1 is very limited in performance, so I reduce the noise reduction in the camera and move it to davinci resolve

I have 3 Zcam E1 but One of my Z Cam E1 has a display defect, I've had it open a few times. its all standart not magic

The sensor is in contact with the front part of the battery compartment with a simple thermal paste, which is ideal for the LIPOs.!!!

I am currently in the process of converting them.

Accu out of the case, Peltie element on the sensor, with heat pipe heat out of the case

The processor is cooled with a copper sheet behind the display, in between is a sloppy thermal pad without air one of my E1 lacked the thermal pad,.

The SD card limited to 100Mbs, a SanDisk Extreme Pro has a write speed: up to 90 * MB / sec !!!!!

I like my 2 Zcam E1 still running but It is and remains an action cam with a 4/3 sensor with an internal 8 bit color and limited processor performance.

great distance from the colour and image quality of my BMMCC with 10bit ProRes ..

if you set the noise reduction to min and deactivate the lens correction and do it with davinci resolve, you will have gained more.

check if the use of the HDMI output (1080P) at 4k is noticeable in the image quality

One method of reducing noise is to cool the camera. Generally, it will assumed that the thermal noise of a CMOS sensor with a temperature reduction is already halved by 7 ° C.

Are we 100% sure that cooling is the reason for these weird color effects that I'm seeing? I've attached a sample video. The effect I'm referring to is on the baby's arm. It looks like the color depth is reduced or "posterized" to just few shades. There isn't much noise anywhere else in the video beyond what I'd expect.

@ Vitaly-Kislev

probably not developed rather changed and slimmed down so that it doesn't stand out Unfortunately Zcam has changed the BF1 design on Zcam E1 with Sony "IMX159" to the panasonic sensor for cost reasons, to return to Sony "IMX159" with the Zcam C1, unfortunately this backward innovation was then officially discontinued in favor of the E2 the development was not end because it was still used in stereo and multikam systems

@Bob_Hawk

OK, lets go back almost 2 years in time, and Kinson Loo a brilliant marketing manager :-)

At the time they decided to go after cinema cameras market, instead of focusing on smaller, smarter cameras, especially suitable also for direct connection to computer (read games streamers, conference cam, and so on). And they did not want to hear anything, no arguments.

Note that almost all team expertise had been Ambarella processors and not the chips they use now.

Now they have amazing community and lot of good products (in small niche!), but as business goals are - Kinson decision had been badly wrong. They also abandoned almost all E1 users base (same error that Panasonic made gradually).

Actually all this webcamera drivers craze (Z-CAM also participated in this) already showed how right my position had been.

Back to E1

The case mod goes into the next phase

1.) Remove accu, cut out direction to sensor for peltie element

2.) heat to the outside with a laptop cooler with heat pipe on the outside cooler

First test :Cool the sensor to 15-20 C to avoid condensation. This works very precisely at + - 0.5C

Second test : measured temperature of the "On Chip temp sensor" reduced from 42 C to 17C

On photo´s you can immediately see a drastic reduction in noise

"Noise that does not arise does not have to be removed"

A friend is currently using the 3D data from the E2 to adapt a housing for 3D printing

If that fits send it to printed in metal 3D

@orey10m

Jepp Deal i send you a private mail

1.) Have you Firmware 0.31 ?
2.) Use the cumulativ Hack ? 3.) the temperature of the housing rises ? 4.) What SD Card .

Best result with SANDISK Extreme PRO 64 or 128 gig

Thanks Bob Hawk! My card is SanDisk Extreme 128G (not pro)