Sony announces price for high-end 4K (8K) Cam F65 CineAlta known
[13:22 Fri,9.September 2011 by Thomas Richter]
full 4K digital cinema aims onto Sony&s new F65 CineAlta digital cinema camera, which has now been officially launched. And the final price of the Arri Alexa and RED Epic competition was announced: $ 65,000 to the cost base version equipped with a viewfinder - compared with the previous model F35, which was only starting from $ 250,000 to have a bargain. The F65 takes its 8K CMOS sensor (20 million photocells) film in 4K resolution (4096x2160) in 16bit RAW on (with a maximum of 120 frames per second). Can also be included in 2K and HD - all because of the super-sampled 8K sensor. For the future, the possibility of recording in 8K announced by the 16 bit RAW material "de-mosaiced" is, at present there but also because of lack of 8K projectors still not a big demand for it. The F65 has 14 stops, HD-SDI output for monitoring with LUT with Focus Assist Zoom and remote control via wireless tablet with iPad or Android. 60 minutes recording at 24fps in 16bit RAW linear fit on a 1TB SRMemory card. Sony SRMemory cards guarantee a memory throughput of 5.5 Gbps for the shot to avoid the high data rates used for recording glitches. A special version, F65RS baptized, is equipped with a rotating shutter to the inherent in CMOS rolling shutter effect to eliminate. In addition, there are 4 ND filters, which are also equipped with this shutter. This model costs $ 77,000, with viewfinder. The two models will be on the market since January 2012. Included is also presented using the SR-R4 recorder (20,000 dollars), which is docked on the F65. He takes on the linear 16-bit RAW video data in 2K or 4K, or downloaded in standard HD resolution via SR codecs (MPEG-4 SStP) with either 880 Mbps, 440 Mbps or 220 Mbps record to 256 GB, 512 GB or 1TB SRMemory cards. And here nor a "Behind the Scenes" of the now rather old Test Shoots "The Arrival" of the F65 with Curtis Clark ASC. (Thanks to Yves Roy!) more infos at bei pro.sony.com