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Filed under: Cameras •NAB 09 •

NAB 2009 - Zeiss Compact Primes, Sony SRW-9000, etc.

PDW-F800

The back side of a PDW-F800, which looks just like a PDW-700 save for the CineAlta badge.

The PDW-F800 builds on the existing PDW-700 (XDCAM HD, 50 mbps, 4:2:2 8-bit long-GOP MPEG-2) with 23.98P built in, overcrank and undercrank, and other features to make it rate the CineAlta badge.

HSC-300 Digital Triax Camera

An HSC-300 studio camera in minimal configuration.

Sony has two new low-cost 2/3” studio cams, the HSC-100 (around $50,000) and the HSC-300 (around $70,000). Both are 2/3” Power HAD FX cameras (I’m pretty sure; certainly the 300 is), and the 300 uses a digital triax connection—a single, 1/2 inch diameter cable that can be run up to 1300 meters: nearly a mile.

Another HSC-300 with a full sled and a short box lens.

Now, $70k may not scream “low cost” to you, but when the 1500 runs a cool $100K and other studio cams on the Sony booth run $133K, $70k doesn’t seem quite so steep.

A Nice-Looking Lens

And finally (for tonight):

The Fujinon 18-85mm zoom on an F35 body.

Here was a stripped and lonely F35, sitting off to the side of the main digital cine booth at Sony, and it had the new Fujinon 18-85mm PL-mount zoom on it. Looked pretty nice; I hope to see one of these lenses in action during the show.

More later…

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