Sony announces a 8K camcorder and professional 3D camcorder
Let’s make a short break from Alpha related news. Some of you might be interested to read the specs of the new “terrible” brother of the Sony F3, the new F65. It’s the first industrial camera that reocrds…8k!!! I would be glad of some of this features could find the way in the A77 (ok just kidding!). Those are the amazing specs:
• Industry’s first 8K 20M-Pixel CMOS imager for digital motion picture production
• From this imager, the F65 will derive brilliant HD, 2K, True 4K resolution, and higher 16bit Linear RAW output
• F65 adheres to 1.9:1 aspect ratio, DCI Projection standard (4096 x 2160 or 2048 x 1080) Choice of picture composition as needed: 1.85:1, 1.78:1, 1.66:1, 1.33:1, 2.35 spherical, 1.3x anamorphic, or 2x anamorphic cropped
• Wide dynamic range, low S/N ratio, and high sensitivity
• Optional SR-R4 on board SRMemory recorder
• HD-SDI Monitoring outputs with viewing LUT’s
• The camera can shoot 1 to 120 fps
• 16 bit-RAW recording in SRMemory™ card (sold sep.)
More info at Pro.Sony (Click here). I am particularly impressed by the 16Bit linear RAW recording. If Sony would manage to add RAW video recording to high.end Alpha SLT cameras that would kill the current Canon 5D mark II sales! Ok, stop me! I am dreaming 
Sony also unveiled a compact Professional grade 3D Camcorder at NAB (Source: Akihabaranews). The HVR-NX3D1J (in Japan) or HXRNX3D1U (in North America):
• 3D Worldcam 50i/60i compatible
• 3D Recording Mode: 50i/60i/24P (28Mbps)
• 2D Recording Mode: 1920×1080/60p, 50p, 60i, 50i, 24p, 25p
• SD Recording Mode: 720×480 60i, 720×576 50i
• Double HD lenses, 10x optical zoom in 3D
• Automatic or manual parallax correction
• Active SteadyShot™ in 3D
• Glassless 3.5-inch LCD
• Removable Audio Pod with XLR connectors
• Time Code recording
• 28Mbps AVCHD with AC3/LPCM 3D recording
• Side by Side or Frame Packing output via HDMI
• One card slot accepts SD or Memory Stick
• Built-in 96GB flash memory
Mark
3 years ago |At least now we know what the memory card announcement was for.
gigino
3 years ago |We don’t.
Those cards cannot record 4k raw video in real time.
TT
3 years ago |Are you kidding? Do you think those teeny tiny memory stick would handle 16-bit RAW 4K video?
The memory card with this camera is 1 TB and is this one
“The SRMemory card is an ultra high-speed, high-capacity, and high-reliability flash memory media for SRMASTER™ series cameras, ideal for demanding professional applications including 3D production, high frame rate digital cinematorgraphy, and high-resolution digital cinematography.”
PMS
3 years ago |Keep pushing, Sony!
I’m a devoted Canon user and desperately want Sony to set the bar higher and higher!
RubyStone
3 years ago |I’m longing for a Canon 4K 35mm cam.
Canon has published 2 PL mount cine lens.
Did it mean the cam would be in near future?
kiong
3 years ago |i want more news about A77
reader
3 years ago |the website layout is kind of here and there….
please test it on chrome.
Zstan
3 years ago |Another earthquake just hit.
Sky_walker
3 years ago |WTF?!
16 bit 20MPx RAW stream at 30 fps?!
I DEMAND CAMERA WITH SUCH SPECS!!!!!
Wow, it’s just: pure wow.
So far we don’t even have 16 Bit RAWs common, not saying about camera making 30fps stream of these!
00aeiou00
3 years ago |Thats rad!! I want one! But for the 3D cam, I´d rather them make a camera that had two e-mount or a-mounts (and two sensors) so that you could use nice glass on a single unit. One can dream…
Cheers, J
pancanikonpus
3 years ago |where are the hell A77 Nex7
jazzroy
3 years ago |OMG.. speachless..
Milos Janata
3 years ago |So A77 is 4Mpx better than this
gigino
3 years ago |BTW, for anybody dreaming of RAW video on a DSLR in the near future.
Look at the size of the body of this F65 not mentioning a price tag of likely 200K.
At least that is what the F35 costed when it came out 2 years ago.
pancanikonpus
3 years ago |F35 – Lockhead cannot be. F22 is da best!
Milos Janata
3 years ago |raw means less processing… Once someone unlocks raw, others will follow…
But I rather expect some H.265 version or AVDHD2 next year than un-cripled outputs…
Sky_walker
3 years ago |Less processing but MUCH more data at a time. That’s why such cameras or put video stream directly onto external recorders or have internal SSD memory working in RAID for maximum performance. DLSRs can’t handle that much data at the current state. But I guess at some point it’ll be something companies such as Sony or Canon won’t be able to resist in order to fight competition.
Milos Janata
3 years ago |So what happens in the first stage in dslr? It has to capture raw data first at 60 fps anyway? After it converts stream into MP4…
So can anyone explain what would happen if we just removed MP4 encoding process? I guess we get raw :]
Sky_walker
3 years ago |The encoding to video format, let’s say it’s MP4, happens before data stream hits any recording medium.
It’s essentially: Sensor -analog signal-> AD -lot of data-> CPU -lots of data-> Encoding PU -low amount of data-> Memory saving media.
And the last part of chain is the greatest problem. Right now we don’t have any commonly used media other than Compact Flash that can save stream of more than 12 RAWs per second (random not too big number, I don’t know exact amount), that’s why professional video cameras save everything onto SSD drives or give output to external storage.
To save stream of 30 RAWs per second you’d need or a new standard OR a huge amount of RAM (8 or 16GB preferred) and long dumping-to-memory-card time OR internal SSD drive which would enforce big body (most likely something in size of A900+grip, maybe even bigger).
Sky_walker
3 years ago |Oh, with that “data processing graph” I meant that if you take out the encoding you’ll end up with lots of data hitting the Memory, which makes last part of chain a big problem.
If you save compressed MP4 or JPGs sequence than it’s doable to my knowledge, though requires highest memory card standard.
Strider
3 years ago |Just give me 16 bit raw & stick to 1080p video for DLSRs.
Leave those fancy 4k 6k & 8k video to the pros
(ps, i thought RED already has a 8k camera?)
Sky_walker
3 years ago |Currently RED has 5k most, but also in 16bit RAW (only it’s using lossy compression)
Camaman
3 years ago |How much does it cost?
I might get one to play around with if its around $3000.