Axiom Beta – Digital cinema camera built around FOSS and open hardware
So I do photography as a hobby as well as some semi professional stuff (I shoot for the pros at hockey tournaments, I'm not as good as they are but close, they get keepers every 13 seconds I'm more like 20-25 seconds; seems like a long time but that includes the time to look at each shot and delete the crap.  They are faster because they know when they take the shot if they missed and they delete without looking at it.  I'm not that good, I have to look.)<p>I shoot hockey with a Canon 1DX II, before I got that body I used a 5DIII.  If I'm shooting for me, I use a Canon 200mm f2; if I'm shooting for the pros, they want more like a 300mm so I add a 1.4x teleconverter.<p>For the people who don't know what any of that means, this might help: the 1DX II is Canon's best sports body, it retails for about $6000.  The 200mm + the 1.4x is another $6000.<p>So truth in advertising, I've got a lot invested in my current kit (not just that stuff, I have a number of other Canon lenses, some Sigma, Rokinon).  So perhaps I'm not objective.<p>All that said, I don't get this camera at all.  No auto focus, no viewfinder, those are complete deal breakers for me (electronic viewfinder doesn't count unless it is 100% as fast as a normal view finder.  I'm timing shots so I get the puck going into the net, that means a lag as small as a few milliseconds screws me up.  And when I say "me" I really mean any sports photographer, or action photographer where the work flow doesn't allow you to use burst to hopefully get the right shot by accident).<p>It looks like lots of cool technology but I'm definitely not interested in owning one.<p>So who is interested in owning one and what would you do with it?  Where does this camera shine?