Sony presents its most innovative proposals at IFEMA

Broadcast IT 2011 will be an excellent opportunity to get up close and personal with the new PMW-F3 camcorder, with EXMOR Super 35 CMOS sensor, the upcoming F-65 launch (Super 35 mm 8K CMOS with 20.4 million pixels), the PMW-TD300 3D camera, the SR-R1000 recorder, and the MSC-8M multi-format mixer.

Among the many new features that we will see in Broadcast at IFEMA from October 25 to 28 by Sony highlights the PMW-F3, a camcorder with low energy consumption that is equipped with an EXMOR Super 35 CMOS sensor, a PL lens mount and an SxS memory card for recording in Full HD 1920 × 1080. This camera allows you to record in low lighting conditions using only ambient light. It has a Dual-Link HD-SDI output connector for external recording devices. The camera is supplied with three fixed local length PL lenses (35/50/85 mm. T2.0). It records in XDCAM EX and has a very intuitive operation that is perfect for integration with the main non-linear editing applications.

Broadcast IT 2011 will be a good opportunity to learn more details about Sony's next launch: the new F-65. This digital cinematography camera is characterized by its Super 35 mm 8K CMOS sensor with 20.4 million pixels, capable of producing true 4K images with a wide color space, dynamic range and sensitivity, as well as an excellent signal-to-noise ratio and the possibility of working at variable frame rates between 1 and 120 frames per second.

Its extraordinary image quality can be captured on the new SRMemory cards, using the new SR-R4 external recorder of the SRMaster series, at a sustained rate of 5 Gbps, storing approximately one hour in 4K 16-bit RAW at 24 fps on a single 1 TB capacity card. It has a multiple resolution system, HD (1-120p), 2K and 4K (1-60p), which allows it to cover any type of film and television production.

At Broadcast 2011 we will be able to see Sony's first shoulder-mounted 3D camcorder, the PMW-TD300. Framed in the XDCAM EX line, it has two lenses and two pairs of 1/2 CMOS sensors. Records to two SxS cards simultaneously using the same MPEG-2 HD 4:2:0 format with an MP4 wrapper with a bit rate of up to 35 Mbps. This allows professional editors to incorporate the files directly into the workflow.

SR-R1000

Another novelty to highlight is the SR Master HDCAM SR recorder designed to record in HD and 3D. You can use up to 4 SR memory cards and each of them is capable of recording two simultaneous HD-SDI 1080p inputs.

With multi-channel recording in removable solid state, it has four HD, 3D, 4K input and output ports and up to 8 channels of multi-camera recording and playback. Its recording format is MPEG-4 SStP at 220 Mbps, 440 Mbps and 800 Mbps. In addition, it can record without DPX compression, 16 channels of 24-bit PCM audio and each channel of high-definition video is capable of 3G SDI dual-link, 1080/60p 3D. It also has high speed removable media with fixed internal memory (maximum of 8 TB) and SR Lite material capacity (12 TB, with about one hundred hours).

OLED in monitors

In monitors, highlight the new PVM series of OLED monitors with Super Top Emission (STE) technology. These diodes emit an organic light that allows flat screens for production and post-production environments to achieve unprecedented performance. The black color looks compared to CRTs with unmatched depth. In fact, both in NAB and IBC this range was shown with the monitor off and on in black without seeing any difference... total darkness.

Also noteworthy is that free motion blur is equivalent to a CRT, the color space is beyond CRT capabilities, it provides SMPTE/EBU in SD and the native color gamut exceeds ITU-RBT.709 specifications for more vivid color reproduction.

The 10-bit drivers in the OLED panels ensure excellent uniformity from screen to screen allowing for accurate color reproduction in a multi-panel mobile broadcast and studio environment.

The PVM-1741 and PV:2541 come equipped with an advanced waveform monitor, high audio level meters and timecode sampling. The new monitors feature two SDI inputs (3G/H/SD) and one output, one composite input and output, RCA audio input and output, parallel and serial ports, and the 1714 also includes DC for remote applications. All these functions are controlled under an integrated control panel.

MCS-8M

Also new at Broadcast 2011 will be the multi-format mixer with frame synchronizer for each input and six-channel audio mixer. It is designed with ease of use in mind and features a wide variety of preset DME digital effects transition patterns, direct output to multi-display monitor, one channel of frame memory, input freeze function for each source, ability to import still images via USB port, operation mode for stereoscopic production...