When Panasonic unveiled their unique VARICAM off-speed camcorder nearly 10 years ago the industry fell in love with its motion tricks but not it’s workflow. Now P+S Technik have maybe come up with a product that could better it.
It was truly revolutionary for the time as it allowed speed ramping from one frame a second to 60 at a time when the only off-speed capture available was from film cameras. It was only 720p with a 2/3inch sensor and recorded to a tape based DVCHD codec but allowed an early look in to digital slow motion as well as being a normal 25p synch-sound product. You had to be careful using it though as many found out when they recorded off speed footage to the same tape as their normal speed capture. You had to convert the off-speed footage through Panasonic’s own frame rate converter, one of the early pieces of advice was to record normal and off-speed footage on different tapes to avoid a long process of differentiating between frame rates.
The onboard memory (18 GB) allows recording of more than 4 mins in normal speed (memory with 9 GB or 36 GB planned). The standard switchable HD-SDI interface in 1,5 G & 3 G allows the integration into existing HD infra- structures and operation with existing and future-proofed HD-SDI recorders.
Features:
*Super 35 CMOS Sensor
*Global Shutter
*PS-IMS Lens Mount
*24-60fps via direct HD-SDI out
*1-450fps (continuously adjustable)
*4:2:2 10-bit uncompressed
*4:4:4 10-bit uncompressed (option planned)
*12-bt RAW uncompressed (option planned)
*18GB internal memory
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