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It appears the Digital Bolex people licensed the Bolex name from Bolex International S.A. My guess: they're hotrodding an off-the-shelf box camera of some sort. But that's just a guess.

Check out the specs and sample footage here:

http://www.digitalbolex.com/

Fun idea, but I'm not going to be first in line to buy one. Though if it works well, that'll be totally cool.

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Where'd you get that information? There's nothing on either the real Bolex website or this "digitalbolex" website" that suggests that.

My hunch started with an answer in the FAQ on their kickstarter page:

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Why no international sales?

Our current agreement with Bolex states that we may only ship cameras within the United States. Anyone with a US mailing address can purchase a camera. If you're an international buyer interested in purchasing a camera, we suggest checking out http://www.myus.com/.

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Then they added more info:

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Why are you using the name Bolex? Isn't that trademarked?

We're working in partnership with Bolex International, SA. The collaborators on this project are based in Los Angeles, Toronto, China, and Switzerland.

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And then I talked to some people. Note that I wrote "it appears" because I haven't totally nailed this down. Not sure I will; depends on some other stuff... I don't think anything nefarious is going on. But I don't think this will end up being a $3300 (or whatever) Alexa.

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Mmm... I was starting to think the same but there's more explanation... These vintage cam lovers seem serious!

Audio's said to be 16b/48k through xlrs and indeed, the crank is like a selector for menus...

http://www.digitalbolex.com/

2500$ for now.

I doubt we see much of them through our work though but who knows...

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