Hello and welcome to Up to Speed where we cover the latest new professional video products
as and when they are released.
Today Atomos have launched the Ninja Inferno recorder.
A stripped down version of their flagship product, the shogun inferno.
For those who are familiar with the Atomos product line, this probably wont come as much
of a surprise.
For each product they release they normally have a HDMI and a SDI version.
For example, we had the ninja blade and the samurai blade, the shogun and the ninja assassin,
the Shogun flame and the ninja Flame, you get the idea.
So the Shogun inferno, the current flagship model of Atomos’s line up, has been around
for a bit now.
It has SDI and HDMI conversion, a HDR screen and can record up to 4K 60p and 2K 240p, as
well as being able to take a raw signal and either convert it to ProRes or record it as
RAW using cinema DNG.
So its a hugely powerful recorder.
But now it has a smaller sibling, the Ninja Inferno.
Atomos have taken a slightly different approach with the Ninja Inferno.
On all their previous products they have kept the feature set exactly the same, just removed
the SDI port to make it a HDMI only recorder.
But here with the Ninja Inferno, they have actually stripped back a whole load of features
as well.
They have taken away Raw recording, they have taken away 2K slow motion and they have taken
away gunlock and timecode.
So whats left and why have they done that?
Well firstly it means they can offer it at a massively lower price, the Shogun inferno’s
RRP is £1,795, and the Ninja Inferno is coming in at £875.
So thats nearly a grand cheaper which is great.
But the crucial feature that remains, is 4K recording up to 60p.
And why is that so important?
Well because of this little camera, the panasonic GH5.
As i’m sure most of you know, the GH5 can do 4K 10 bit internally.
Or 4K 60p in 8 bit.
But what you might not know is that it can output 4K 60p in 10 bit over its full size
HDMI port.
So couple this with a Ninja Inferno and you get 4K 60 or 50p recording, in 10 bit colour
space, in prores files at data rates up to 1880 mbps if you want to go that high.
Its clear Atomos have definitely developed this product to go right alongside the GH5,
and I think they have down a fantastic job.
Its like they have made a custom Shogun inferno specifically for the GH5.
It has everything GH5 owners need, and nothing that they dont.
And its easy to forget that the Atomos recorders are also fantastic monitors.
The Ninja Inferno has a 7 inch 1920 by 1200 monitor with 1500 nit brightness for either
outdoor monitoring or HDR work.
An advanced atom HDR engine to help you work with Log footage and HDR production, and all
the exposure and focus tools you would expect, waveform, false colour, peaking and more.
If your looking to do serious video production with your GH5, this should be high on your
list of accessories.
So what do you think of the Atoms Ninja Inferno?
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