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Jon Fauer’s www.fdtimes.com The Journal of Art, Technique and Technology in Motion Picture Production Worldwide SONY PMW-F3 Special Report...
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Sony Affordable 35... Sony’s Alec... First unveiled at NAB 2010 by Alec Shapiro, Senior VP of Sony Two months after IBC 2010, on a cold, sleety November 8th, Alec Professional Sales and Marketing, it was quickly put under glass. was back—this time on the lofty 35th floor of Sony’s New York...
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(See lens charts later in this issue.) Power consumption is an astonishingly low 24 Watts. The Sony F3 uses an on-board 12 volt battery like the BPU-60 for about 3 hours of run-time. There are no fans.
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1/4-20 tripod mounts on the HDMI Out bottom are replaced by industry-standard 3/8-16. HD-SDI dual At the rear of the F3 are 2 Sony SxS ExpressCard slots. The F3 link Out records natively onto SxS cards at 35 Mbps in 4:2:0 8-bit XDCAM Composite EX format.
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• Power consumption: Approx. 24.0 W • Battery operating time: Approx.130 Min (w/ BP-U60) The right side of the camera has a familiar Sony • Recording format: MPEG-2 Long GOP camcorder handgrip with zoom rocker control–a clear indication of commitment to an upcoming •...
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The PWM-F3L package consists of the camera with PL adaptor (no lenses). The PMW-F3K package includes the camera, PL adaptor, and 3 Sony PL Primes: 35, 50 and 85 mm, T2.0. Two custom zooms are also in the works, using Sony’s F3 mount.
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” However, the camera he used only had an Exposure Index of 800. With the upgrade option to S-Log, Sony estimates the EI “conservatively” at 1600.
Solid State Memory PMW-F3 camera SR-R1 Memory Recorder Sony HDCAM SR solid state memory cards have been announced, with a capacity up to 1TB and sustainable transfer speeds exceeding 5Gbps. SR-R1 Memory Recorder announced at the recent F3 launch at USC School of Cinematic Arts.
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F3 3D Sony’s SR Memory format has the capability of simultaneous dual stream recording, which opens up the possibility of 3D stereo shooting from two cameras (left-eye, right-eye) up to 30p onto one recorder and one Memory Card. SR-R1 Memory Recorder Two F3 cameras can currently sync together for 3D shooting using Genlock.