Bolex was one of the top 50 Kickstarter campaigns of all time, alongside the Oculus Rift, Double Fine Adventure, and Pebble watch, all of which were profiled by CNN Money for their late deliveries. The Digital Bolex had an original estimated delivery date of August 2012, and cameras began to ship in December 2013. The Digital Bolex received a large amount of press in print and on the web during and after its launch, including stories by Mashable, Engadget, PBS, CNET, Vice and Intel's The Creator's Project, and Wired. With 440 backers and $262,661 raised, the Digital Bolex Kickstarter had an unusually high average pledge of $597, nearly twice the average pledge of similar Kickstarter project Oculus Rift ($256 average pledge) and four times the average pledge of the Ouya game console ($136). With 77 backers pledging $2,500 each, the Digital Bolex may have the highest median pledge of any Kickstarter project. End of production June 2016 On June 27, 2016, the company announced on its website that it would no longer be producing cameras as of that month, and would shut down its online store on June 30, 2016. After the company made the announcement the remaining 50 to 60 cameras sold out in just two days. Digital Bolex founder Joe Rubinstein has said there is a possibility for the product to be relaunched but it would require new investment. Products D16 cinema camera The Digital Bolex camera was the second camera to feature Adobe's CinemaDNG open RAW file format after the Swedish-made Ikonoskop which debuted in 2008. Both cameras use a Kodak-designed CCD sensor. The Digital Bolex D16 shoots raw still frames per second instead of a traditional video stream. In addition to its raw capabilities, the camera is notable for its Super 16mm sized sensor, allowing the usage of vintage 16mm lenses with no crop, and its unique crank wheel encoder. The Digital Bolex is the only digital cinema camera with a native C mount, a nod to the original Bolex 16mm film cameras. The Digital Bolex was the first-announced camera aimed at the consumer market to offer a 2K recording resolution, however competitor Blackmagic Design started shipping its Blackmagic Cinema Camera (announced a month later at the 2012 National Association of Broadcasters convention in Las Vegas) in December 2012, one year before the Digital Bolex began to ship. D16M monochrome At the 2014 National Association of