Sony announces the XDCAM EX
 

This looks like Sony's answer to the HVX200. 1080i/p and 720p, 1/2 inch sensors, flash-based storage, two PC card slots (16 gb each, one hour video per card), 24p and other frame rates, slow and fast motion. I noticed it said CineAlta on the right side.

Heath

Uses Express card 34 bus rather than pcmcia. Can get an hour or so of recording to a card also.

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Is there a link to press release or anything?

Is it CMOS or CCD? I didn't hear mention.

heath

I'm looking now. greg?

heath

still 35 mbps?

Joe

edit: guess it must be if you do the math on 35mbps to 16gig which becomes an hour..

Here's the pic. And I want one...

http://news.sel.sony.com/en/image_li...asset_id=29749

This is what happens when you give steroids to the Z1u.

Wow.

Looks like a Z1 and a Canon H1 had a kid. Depending on the price and if it can in fact shoot in "off" frame rates, this could be a winner (esp for all us Vegas users)

I like its specs.. but design.. umm yea, the lens unit looks good layout wise and 1/2" chips is nice, no indication on the photo as to what they are however.

A definite answer to the hvx with i'll tentatively say the res to boot.

Nice, looks like the iris ring has stops, possibly the focus too. I wonder what this bad boy is going to cost?


It being xdcam, will it use the discs or the cards?

Sony basically said that XDCAM HD is any sort of acquisition, etc., that is non-linear and device-based vs. tape-based. Not the exact words, but close enough. (grin)

Flash-based PC cards. Price--no idea, but maybe $7000 or $8000 to compete with the HVX, I'm guessing. It's a small camera, maybe as big as a DVX100b or a V1u, but a little taller, I think.

Vince Pace was in the audience, btw--he and James Cameron developed the Pace/Cameron Fusion camera for 3D applications, like Cameron's AVATAR.

And, of course, 4k projection: SXRD. Muvico is replacing their film projectors with this bad boy in all their theatres, I believe. NICE! Now a reason to go back to the theatres.

heath

I am really impressed by this camera and see it as the ideal upgrade from say my HD200 - whats the deal with the lenses although?

Fixed lens, as far as I could tell.

heath

thats quite dissapointing as i am not to contented with the current lens theyve got on the Z1