Panasonic Turns 4K VariCam Into Springy Events Camera
Gratuitous microcode upgrade enables VariCam LT to influence on live multi-Cam productions
nhl.comPanasonic has announced a loose microcode raise for its VariCam LT 4K television camera to enable it to be victimized in endure and ‘near live’ multi-Cam setups, to address concerts, shows, dramatics productions and events.
The raise enables inhabit events to be created with a More cinematic, filmic look, with a shoal profoundness of field, from the VariCam’s Extremely 35mm sensing element. The tv camera also captures HDR-prepare 14+ stops of moral force range, and canful catch in modest visible radiation done its two-fold aboriginal 800/5000 ISO settings.
The Varicam LT was foremost unveiled at the beginning of 2016, as a compact car and comparatively low-cost - its lean Price at establish was US$18k (£12,600) – route into capturing high-timber 4K images.
The Interpretation 6 firmware upgrade, which wish be usable at the conclusion of following month, gives the VariCam LT 4K a New blending mode (enabling last in-television camera color correction) as intimately as jibe and render picture management; which are essentials for bouncy production. A newfangled ’live mode’ buff scope has as well been added to trim buff make noise.
It volition as well be conceivable to remotely master the camera’s functions victimization Panasonic’s AK-HRP1000 removed curb panel, enabling remote look-up tabular array (LUT) management, setting Indian file selection, distant REC contain and birdsong procedure.
Hold out marking software, including from Colorfront, Lightning bug and Codex, will too be able-bodied to remotely upload LUTs and negociate the camera’s expect.
The Varicam LT’s two distinguish SDI outputs meanspirited it’s imaginable to end product unlike coloring material settings, one and only light opinion for broadcasting or recording, and single monitoring perspective for status check, markers and menus.
Luc Bara, field of study intersection handler for Panasonic, said: "This in vogue microcode acclivity of the VariCam LT bequeath create this the better heavy sensing element tv camera to apply for bouncy yield applications so much as TV shows, concerts and corporal events. It’s a double-dyed pit of the fashion of the celebrated Varicam face and the center of Panasonic’s expertise in circulate camera systems. It makes the photographic camera an implausibly various all-libertine."
