Sony Unveils VENICE, its First 36x24mm Full-Frame Cinema camera with Lever Lock Type E-mount!

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Sony just unveiled the new Venice Full Frame Cine Alta Camera. It will be presented tonight at 6pm in las Vegas. This high end cinema camera has a lot of exciting tech. And it has a Lever Lock Type E-mount:

The camera body only is rumored to be priced around $35-40,000. But some of that tech could trickle down to the future more affordable E-mount camcorder and cameras.

Enjoy the press text:

Sony Unveils VENICE, its First 36x24mm Full-Frame Digital Motion Picture Camera System

Anamorphic Capabilities, Interchangeable Sensor, 8-stage ND Filter System, New Colour Management System & Established Workflows combine into a Unique Creative Filmmaking Tool

Basingstoke – 6 September 2017: Sony Professional Solutions Europe is unveiling VENICE – its first full-frame digital motion picture camera system. VENICE is the next generation of Sony’s CineAlta camera system, designed to expand the filmmaker’s creative freedom through large-format, full frame image capture of filmic imagery with natural skin tones and expressive dark areas. VENICE was designed through close collaboration and careful research with the creative community, fulfilling the various requirements from filmmakers and production professionals.

VENICE is officially unveiled globally on 6th September with events in Europe at Sony’s Digital Motion Picture Centre at Pinewood Studios with renowned cinematographer Ed Wild B.S.C., and in the USA at the Cary Grant Theater, Sony Pictures Studios. At both events Sony will also screen footage produced with the new camera, directed by Joseph Kosinski and shot by Academy Award winning cinematographer Claudio Miranda, ASC.

“The launch of VENICE demonstrates our strong relationship with filmmakers around the world, and our commitment to developing tools that support directors, DOPs and cinematographers in bringing their vision to the screen as they originally intended it,” said Sebastian Leske, Product Marketing Manager, Cinematography, Sony Professional Solutions Europe. “We’ve not only focused on features to deliver the most true to life images, including colour reproduction for natural skin tones. We also thought about the best usability and operability, without compromising on quality. We’re looking forward to seeing how VENICE will be used to create Emotion in Every Frame.”

Full frame sensor and wide range of lens compatibility to visualise the image of filmmakers

The camera combines a newly developed 36x24mm full-frame sensor and compatibility with a wide range of lenses, including anamorphic, Super 35mm and full-frame PL mount for a greater range of expressive freedom with shallow depth of field. The lens mount can also be changed to handle E-mount lenses for shooting situations that require smaller, lighter, wider and more characteristic lenses. User-selectable areas of the image sensor allow shooting in Super 35 mm 4 – perf. Future firmware upgrades are planned to allow the camera to handle 36mm wide 6K resolution. Fast image scan technology minimises the so-called “Jello” effect.

New colour management system and established workflow for flexible post-production

A new colour management system and wide colour gamut gives users more control and greater freedom to work with images during grading and post-production. VENICE also has more than 15 stops of latitude to handle challenging lighting situations from low-light to harsh sunlight.

VENICE achieves high quality and efficient file-based production through Sony’s established 16-bit RAW/X-OCN and XAVC workflows using the portable memory recorder AXS-R7. VENICE is also compatible with current and upcoming hardware accessories for CineAlta cameras (DVF-EL200 Full HD OLED Viewfinder, AXS-R7 recorder, AXS-CR1 and AR1 card reader, AXS and SxS memory cards).

Intuitive design and refined functionality to support smooth on-site operation

VENICE has a fully modular and intuitive design with refined functionality to support smooth and efficient on-site operation. It is the film industry’s first camera with a built-in 8-stage glass ND filter system, enabling to reduce the replacement work of the external ND filter and make shooting progress efficient. The camera is designed for easy operation with an intuitive control panel placed on the left and right sides of the cameras. A 24 V power supply input/output and Lemo connector allow use of many standard camera accessories and make use in harsh environments easier.

License options for individual production requirements

With VENICE, Sony is giving users the option to customise their camera by enabling the features needed, matched to their individual production requirements. Optional licenses will be available in permanent, monthly and weekly durations to expand the camera’s capabilities with new features including 4K anamorphic and full frame, each sold separately.

The VENICE CineAlta digital motion picture camera system is scheduled to be available in February 2018.

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(SR2) Some early unconfirmed A7sIII rumors

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Today (6pm Los Angeles time) Sony will announce the new Cine Alta FF camera (early specs here). I am yet not sure if there will be something else.

If reliable rumors is what you are looking for please stop reading here :)

Today I got this completely unverified rumor. I post it as usual in the hope to get some feedback on this. The new source said A7sIII (or A9s) will come soon:

The interesting thing will be that is will house the worlds first full frame RGBW backlit stacked sensor. Giving us around 68% better low light performance over the original a7s sensors. It will also be capable of 4K 4:2:2 10bit color and 4K 60p but only at 8bit 4:2:0 full sensor readout. These are the things I am mostly sure of.

But like I said, it might be completely BS :)

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(SR3) Some hints that today Sony will announce something more than the Cine Alta???

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Teaser of the Cine Alta launch (today at 6pm LA time)

I am starting to get more and more hints that today Sony might announce more than the CineAlta FF camera. I have no details yet but this seems to be something “major”. You can speculate if it might be an A7sIII, new FF E-mount camcorder, new FE lenses or medium format camera.

But like I wrote, this is SR3 for now and completely non confirmed. I am writing this in the hope to get some more details from sources reading this. Stay tuned!

UPDATE: There is a major press event in Japan with reporters and bloggers flying over to Sony.

 

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Some fun: Phase One camera with Sony logo

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There is an image going around the web of this Phase One XF camera with a Sony logo. Don’t know who did this and why. It’s still a long time to go for April 1 jokes:)

Just funny speculation: Is Sony going to take over Phase One? For Sony it would make more sense to make a mirrorless MF than having to work with Phase One bulky camera system…

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Curiosity: Sony sensor factory air is 35,000 times cleaner than typical city air

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Imaging Resource got an exclusive access to the usually top secret Sony sensor factory of Kumamoto. Of course they didn’t get super detailed specifics of the entire process. But the first things that strieked me is that the factory air is 35,000 times cleaner than typical city air. Sounds like a greta place ot be :)

One of the few machines they got the pleasure to record was this wire-bonding machine. The video is actually in slow motion:

Impressive!

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You can now preorder the new Sony RX0

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You can now preorder the new RX0 at Bhphoto and Adorama.

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