Ovide and Sony present to professionals the first compact HDCAM SR camcorder

Heir to the F23, the new camcorder, weighing just 6.5 kg. and a consumption of just 57W, it can make recordings in 4:2:2 Y/Cb/Cr format at 10 bits with the highest quality, in 1080/23.98P, 24P, 25P and 29.97P, as well as in 1080/50i and 59.94i or in 4:2:2 720/50P and 59.94p.

Sergi Ovide Maudet, technical director of Ovide BS and Fernando Muro, product marketing Business Solutions at Sony, have presented this week in Barcelona and Media the first HDCAM SR camcorder now available for rent. The new SRW-9000 inherits many of the features of the HDW-F900/F900R or the F23 but with great mobility since it weighs half that of the F23 (6.5 Kg.) and approximately the same as the F900. In terms of price, the new camera costs 7% less than the F900. Although its features are similar to this previous model, the new SRW-9000 would not have the sophisticated dichroic prism of the F23 with its wide response in color space.

It is the first compact camcorder that records in HDCAM SR and has 3 2/3" CCDs offering 1920x1080 with 10-bit RGB 222 recording and a variable speed of up to 60 fps. Sony has conceived this camcorder 'for life' so starting from an open architecture, today it has a 2/3 inch CCD optical block but in a short time it will be able to attach a 35 mm PL. Sony has also planned to replace the tape with an SR memory. This memory, which will reach 1TB next year, works at more than 5 Gbps in access speed, and will be able to work in multistream with up to 8 HD RGB 444 streams, with up to 240 fps (as a frequency for 3D), and all this on solid state with RAID 5 protection.

One of the main advantages of this camcorder working in HDCAM SR is that everything the sensor captures is recorded, leaving color or gamma adjustments, for example, for post-production without any loss of information. In the standard configuration, the SRW-9000 can record in 4:2:2 Y/Cb/Cr format at 10 bits at the highest quality, in 1080/23.98P, 24P, 25P and 29.97P, as well as in 1080/50i and 59.94i. Additionally, the SRW-9000 can record 4:2:2 720/50P and 59.94P signals, which can be used for DTV broadcast and programming applications. For users requiring greater creative performance, a variety of optional cards can be added to take advantage of 4:4:4 RGB image capture with 1080 bandwidth, SR Motion image capture and recording at variable frame rate, S-Log gamma, and additional signal inputs and outputs.

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First images of beds

Coincidiendo con la presentación de la SRW-9000 en Barcelona y Madrid, han podido verse ya en las sedes de Ovide BS en Barcelona y Madrid las primeras imágenes de <em>Llits</em>,una producción en 3D de Televisió de Catalunya con la colaboración de Apuntolapospo, Ovide BS y Kronomav grabada en el Teatre Nacional de Catalunya durante la representación del espectáculo de Lluís Danés.

For the production of beds, Ovide BS has supplied four pairs of cameras. Due to physical needs and also to be able to evaluate different technologies, they have worked with various configurations ranging from two pairs of Panasonic AJ-HDX900 (DVCPRO HD) in the large rigs, working with Digiprimes optics, a pair of Sony PMW-EX3 and another pair of Iconix RH1. During filming, the new Sony SRW-9000 was also used experimentally in 4:4:4 HQ recording.

For 3D monitoring, they used JVC 3D monitors along with the software developed by Apuntolapospo for stereoscopic control.