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LATEST SONY PRODUCTS

NEX-FS100U

Sony’s Super 35mm family now extends to the NXCAM line of camcorders with the NEX-FS100. Featuring a Exmor Super 35 CMOS™ sensor for high sensitivity and creative control of depth of field, it also offers an E mount interchangeable lens system with a short flange back distance which accommodates various lens adaptors so you can choose from a wide range of existing lens. The NEX-FS100U uses AVCHD recording and shoots with a maximum frame rate of 1920x1080/60p (28Mbps) and records to Memory Stick™ media, SD memory cards and for extended continuous recording or instant backup, you can use an HXR-FMU128 flash memory unit. It also provides HDMI 4:2:2 uncompressed signal output with embedded Time Code and embedded 2-3 pull-down markers. Find out more about this new addition to the Super 35mm family here.


PMW-F3

Welcome the newest member to Sony’s CineAlta ™ camcorder line-up: the affordable PMW-F3 Super 35mm camcorder. It is a new tool for storytellers and breaks entry barriers to digital cinematography and opens up a new era of Super 35mm digital production. The new Exmor Super 35 CMOS ™ sensor is the heart of the F3 and offers razor sharp film like shallow depth of field creativity. It boasts a PL lens mount adaptor for a wide variety of lens choices and dual SxS card slots for full 1920x1080 full HD recording. The F3 also features built-in future expandability including a software option that enables RGB baseband signal output with S-LOG gamma for external recording for use in an HDCAM ™ SR® workflow. To see some of the exciting footage already captured with the F3, go to VideON.


PMW-500

The PMW-500 is the first Sony 2/3” PowerHAD® FX CCD based shoulder mount memory camcorder which records high quality 50 mbps MPEG HD422 video as MXF files on SxS memory cards. These field proven CCD sensors, each with an effective pixel count of 1920 x 1080, give the camcorder an excellent sensitivity of F11 and a remarkable signal-to-noise ratio of 59dB. The PMW-500 is studio configurable, with timecode in/out, genlock in, HD/SD SDI, and also features a SD recording and playback option.


OLED

Organic Light Emitting Diode, or OLED, is a technology that uses carbon-based organic material in a process that converts electric energy into light. This light is used to illuminate the screen and produce the most astounding results ever seen on a television.


HXR-MC50U

The HXR-MC50U offers incredible imaging performance for such a compact camcorder, featuring up to 6 hours Full HD recording on a 64GB internal memory, and more on optional memory card. A high resolution Exmor R™ CMOS Sensor developed by Sony allows this camcorder to capture amazing, full HD video with superb contrast, rich colors and less picture noise.

With the HXR-MC50U, you’ll see the difference in every shot - especially in those all important situations where lighting cannot be controlled.


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Friday, December 23, 2011

NXCAM® Firmware Upgrades

Kristen Stamm | 12/23- 11:19 AM

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Sony announces new free firmware upgrades for the HXR-NX70U and NEX-FS100U/UK that are planned to be available for early 2012. To learn more, visit and bookmark sony.com/nxcam 



Saturday, December 17, 2011

Quick Look: Three New E-Mount Primes

Adam Wilt | 12/17- 12:20 AM

Sony’s new 24mm, 50mm, and 30mm macro lenses for NEX cameras.

Sony has three E-Mount primes coming out right about now, and I had a chance to play with prototypes of them attached to an NEX-FS100 LSS camcorder. Here are my impressions, and a short test.

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Thursday, December 08, 2011

Organize. Manage. Share. Archive.

The Sony Tech Guy | 12/08- 10:01 AM

A practical and versatile solution for multi-format, multi-codec content management.

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Introducing the ultimate multi-tasker. The Sony XDCAM Archive System is the affordable, scalable content management and archive system that allows quick, easy access to multi-format, multi-codec content—up to 85,000 hours of online proxy that link to the high resolution media on your shelf.

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