Nikon to acquire RED
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Nikon to acquire RED
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#2Red was a revolution when it came out in 2007, offering 4K for under $20K! When I heard the announcement of its development I wondered how a guy who made sunglasses was going to pull it off.
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#3I wonder if they will relax scrutiny of use of CinemaDNG, or honestly if Nikon produced CDNG that would be cool.
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#4first reaction is that in we will see raw inside nikon internal recording soon
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#5This could actually be pretty interesting, don’t RED have a patent on compressed raw video? I’m amazed that this patent is allowed but I guess we’ll see Nikon cameras with more advanced video features and probably increased difficulty offering ProRes compressed raw for other manufacturers. I hate software patents so much.
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#6This could actually be pretty interesting, don’t RED have a patent on compressed raw video? I’m amazed that this patent is allowed but I guess we’ll see Nikon cameras with more advanced video features and probably increased difficulty offering ProRes compressed raw for other manufacturers. I hate software patents so much.
Yeah I think this will be huge for in-body RAW.
I think Nikon is more likely to play patent licensing than REzd and we’ll see more ProRes RAW offerings going forward.
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#7This could actually be pretty interesting, don’t RED have a patent on compressed raw video? I’m amazed that this patent is allowed but I guess we’ll see Nikon cameras with more advanced video features and probably increased difficulty offering ProRes compressed raw for other manufacturers. I hate software patents so much.
Yeah, RED tried to sue Nikon over it:
https://petapixel.com/2023/04/27/reds-lawsuit-against-nikon-...
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#8Interesting that some time ago Red filed a lawsuit against Nikon for using a RAW video compression algorithm that Red claimed infringed its patents, but later dismissed it:
https://dpreview.com/news/5338402238/red-is-suing-nikon-for-...
https://dpreview.com/news/9301564383/nikon-denies-red-s-laws...
https://www.newsshooter.com/2023/04/28/red-patent-lawsuit-ag...
Re: Nikon to acquire RED
#9This could actually be pretty interesting, don’t RED have a patent on compressed raw video? I’m amazed that this patent is allowed but I guess we’ll see Nikon cameras with more advanced video features and probably increased difficulty offering ProRes compressed raw for other manufacturers. I hate software patents so much.
I believe so. Although RED was always being super mysterious and hype-y about it their RedCODE codec is ultimately just JPEG2000 so hopefully Nikon can relax this situation somewhat, which would be a benefit to all manufacturers.
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#10Previous discussion about their legal relationship:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31532285