Sony’s Next High-End CineAlta Will Support Variable Frame Rates
Looks and Feels More Like a 35mm Camera
By Bryant Frazer
April 26, 2006 Source: Film & Video
Sony brought a surprise guest to NAB this year – an engineering
prototype of a new RGB 4:4:4 multi-frame-rate camera. Addressing the
long-standing complaints from film cinematographers about the look and
feel of Sony’s high-end HDCAMs, the company has started from scratch
with a new CineAlta design that resembles a 35mm film camera, but the
differences go beyond the cosmetic. This camera will shoot 1080p video
at from 1 fps to 30 fps in 4:4:4 mode and up to 60 fps in 4:2:2 mode (a
limitation officials say owes to the lack of a suitable interface to
pull that much data off the camera that quickly).
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