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Welcome to the world of apertus°

… home of FOSS, open hardware, community-driven, professional digital cinema and imaging tools.

For over ten years our worldwide community has been developing a variety of powerful and affordable tools designed to give users absolute and unparalleled control over their creative processes. All projects are made free (in terms of liberty) around open source software and open hardware licenses with any and all related knowledge being made publicly available. To find out more about how this Association functions please see its Mission Statement.

"Seriously, this is one of the coolest and most advanced open hardware projects I've ever seen."

- Harris Kenny.

Full potential unlocked

Because the AXIOM project and the software they originally pioneered are underpinned by the same ethos, Magic Lantern partnered with apertus° Association in September 2014. Since then they’ve been responsible for colour science and raw processing inside AXIOM Beta.

Serious about freedom

All of our software is released under the GNU General Public License V3, all our documentation under the Creative Commons License, and all hardware under the Cern Open Hardware License.

Love Linux

The AXIOM project has been built around the Linux operating system. Together with the development tools it offers, Linux provides unparalleled control over the software functions and processing behind the devices our community is developing.

"The beauty of an open source camera to me is a step back toward the dark room, in which making the tools is part of the joy of making the art."

- Lee Parker, IMAX Cinematographer.

AXIOM Beta Compact concept circa December 2018

All knowledge made freely available.

The responsibility to exercise total freedom by creating better tools lies with all of us as individuals. Our association and its wider community has been established so that taking this responsibility on, and thereby rising above the corporations who’ve put limitations on our ability to create freely, is made easier for everyone. The AXIOM project is more than good hardware devices and software applications, it's a library of knowledge that anyone is free to contribute towards building. .

"This gives the power back to the people on a new level... AXIOM opens up everything and creates a platform where everybody can contribute."

- Bart van den Boogaard, videographer.

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Calling all technical writers!

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1 month 2 weeks ago by Sebastian

Technical Documentation now! You can certainly imagine that creating an open source and open hardware cinema camera is a mammoth task and requires collaboration of many different professions and peoples backgrounds. For new users and developers getting to know the ins and outs of the projects hard and software is essential though. So we need your help! We are looking for technical writers to help us improve and extend our guides, tutorials, manuals and documentation . Please get in touch with... » Read more

AXIOM Team Talk 15.3 - Packaging & AXIOM Micro

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3 months 5 days ago by RexOr

*/ This is part three of a recently shot round of AXIOM Team Talks. For the previous episodes please see the apertus° Wiki . Packaging Hard Case. Currently all AXIOM Beta Developer Kits ship in cardboard boxes filled with bubble wrap and plastic bags. This solution is far from ideal as the packaging cannot be reused and all the packaging material becomes trash when the camera has been received. As a future shipment option, we consider a hard-case that's functional, practical and can last a long... » Read more

AXIOM Team Talk 15.2 - GSoC and AXIOM Remote

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6 months 2 weeks ago by RexOr

*/ This is part two of a recently shot round of AXIOM Team Talks. For the previous episode please see AXIOM Team Talk 15.1 . Google Summer of Code Projects Google Summer of Code Development. Google Summer of Code HDL Development. Once again apertus° participated in Google’s sponsored program for students working with open source projects like this one. Here is a brief insight into what was worked on this year for Summer of Code . Six student slots were filled with excellent applications and... » Read more

AXIOM Team Talk 15.1 - Hardware Production Progress and first Metal Compact Enclosure Prototype

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9 months 2 weeks ago by Sebastian

*/ AXIOM Team Talk Season 15 This is the first part of a 'Series 15' of AXIOM Team Talks shot in summer 2019. Resident hirsute AXIOM enthusiast, Max, again paid Sebastian a visit at the AXIOM offices in Factory Hub Vienna to get an update on latest development topics and preparations that are being made for production. AXIOM Team Talks are short videos to provide insights into sometimes complex and very technical aspects of the community project to create the first fully open source cinema... » Read more

February 2019 News

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1 year 3 months ago by RexOr

*/ Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille Technology Research Institute Welcome back to the world of apertus°. ... Home of FOSS, open hardware, professional digital cinema and imaging tools. If you're unfamiliar with the project then AXIOM Beta is the first cinema camera built around FOSS licenses. Other hardware devices such as AXIOM Remote and software like the RAW processing suite OpenCine are also being developed alongside. All software and hardware are made open source and open hardware... » Read more

November 2018 News

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1 year 6 months ago by RexOr

*/ Factory Hub Vienna (Tele) Electronics Production Facility Welcome back to the world of apertus°. ... Home of FOSS, open hardware, professional digital cinema and imaging tools. If you're unfamiliar with the project then AXIOM Beta is the first cinema camera built around FOSS licenses. Other hardware devices such as AXIOM Remote and software like the RAW processing suite OpenCine are also being developed alongside. All software and hardware are made open source and open hardware. Development... » Read more

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