http://www.ikonoskop.com/dii/

Thoughts on this? Pretty intense. Uses 80G solid-state cards that they had to manufacture themselves -- and each card only gives you 12-15 minutes of footage.

I am impressed -- and curious as to what kind of hardware you'd need for editing RAW...

looks hot!

There's also the line of Red cameras. They shoot Red's proprietary RAW format, REDCODE. Only the Red One is currently out, but they have two new lines coming out next year, Scarlet and Epic. They look very promising considering their prices and what you get.

Their webside, red.com, has all that there info on them. The big selling point was originally that you could get a 3K camera that shoots raw for $3000. But the price is now 3500 for the bottom of the line kit. It's evolved alot since it was first announced I guess a little under a year ago.

You need some very powerful equipment to edit raw in real time. You also probably would need to transcode to some intermediate format depending on the RAW format and your NLE. In the Mac realm, probably a 8-core Mac Pro with a fast raid array. But I have heard of people editing on Macbook Pros, though it was using proxies then conforming back to the original footage later.

Its an exciting time for Digital Filmmaking.

Just keep in mind that Ikonoskop is a European product.
And I bet that when new Reds are out, they will be more expensive then DII.
+ DII has all the possible mounts you could imagine

As of now, a scarlet with a 2/3" sensor, lens mount, recording media, power, lens and viewfinder, would be about the same prices as the Ikonoskop (before taxes). The Scarlet sensor is also 3K (although it is a bayer sensor, so should output an absolutely pristine 2K image) as opposed to the HD resolution of the Ikonoskop. The scarlet is also highly modular (something the Ikonoskop seems to have to a slightly lesser degree).

Both are gonna be incredible tools, and bring high quality cinema style products to the prosumer price level.

It all will come down to where you live and what the images actually look like, seeing as neither of these cameras are in people's hands yet.

It's an exciting world.

Canon EOS 5D Mark II

this is a digital SLR that shoots HD video @ 1080p, too. One benefit i see here is being able to use the 35mm lenses. obviously, this probably isn't a solution for a feature film, but it looks cool as hell.

It is remarkable the change in the digital cinema industry that is happening right now. Both Canon and Nikon have still cameras that also shoot 1080p HD video. The biggest problem with them is the slow read-reset time of the sensor, which when there is a good amount of motion, such as in a fast pan, causes the image to look slanty (a light post may appear to tilt during the pan, for exampl), a kind of jello effect. But that doesn't discount the fact that these cameras are really damn cheap, considering what you get. For students especially, its a huge step in providing crazy quality gear at an insanely low price.

Hooray us.