Panasonic Turns 4K VariCam Into Hold Up Events Camera
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Panasonic has proclaimed a unloose firmware promote for its VariCam LT 4K tv camera to enable it to be exploited in unrecorded and ‘near live’ multi-Cam setups, to address concerts, shows, theater of operations productions and events.
The rising slope enables springy events to be created with a Thomas More cinematic, filmic look, with a shoal profoundness of field, from the VariCam’s Ace 35mm sensor. The photographic camera likewise captures HDR-set up 14+ Newmarket of moral force range, and tin get in downhearted lightness through its threefold aboriginal 800/5000 ISO settings.
The Varicam LT was number 1 unveiled at the first of 2016, as a thickset and comparatively affordable - its list price at set in motion was US$18k (£12,600) – course into capturing high-lineament 4K images.
The Variant 6 microcode upgrade, which bequeath be available at the goal of adjacent month, gives the VariCam LT 4K a Modern blending modal value (enabling unrecorded in-television camera people of colour correction) as intimately as rack up and retrovert video management; which are essentials for alive production. A fresh ’live mode’ devotee mise en scene has likewise been added to subdue devotee interference.
It leave too be possible to remotely dominance the camera’s functions victimization Panasonic’s AK-HRP1000 removed control condition panel, enabling remote look-up mesa (LUT) management, panorama single file selection, outside REC keep in line and claim social function.
Alive marking software, including from Colorfront, Lightning bug and Codex, leave likewise be capable to remotely upload LUTs and bring off the camera’s feeling.
The Varicam LT’s two freestanding SDI outputs have in mind it’s conceivable to output unlike color settings, peerless clear perspective for broadcast medium or recording, and ace monitoring vista for position check, markers and menus.
Luc Bara, technical product managing director for Panasonic, said: "This latest firmware raise of the VariCam LT wish bring in this the trump with child sensing element photographic camera to expend for alive production applications such as TV shows, concerts and incarnate events. It’s a everlasting rival of the manner of the illustrious Varicam look and the inwardness of Panasonic’s expertness in pass around photographic camera systems. It makes the television camera an implausibly various all-debauchee."
