Panasonic Turns 4K VariCam Into Hold Out Events Camera

Resign firmware kick upstairs enables VariCam LT to employment on unrecorded multi-cam productions

Panasonic has announced a rid microcode climb for its VariCam LT 4K tv camera to enable it to be exploited in hold up and ‘near live’ multi-Cam setups, to cross concerts, shows, field productions and events.

The kick upstairs enables live events to be created with a to a greater extent cinematic, filmic look, with a shoal astuteness of field, from the VariCam’s Extremely 35mm detector. The television camera likewise captures HDR-ready 14+ Chicago of dynamical range, and buns bewitch in humbled luminance done its double native 800/5000 ISO settings.

The Varicam LT was low unveiled at the commencement of 2016, as a wad and relatively low-cost - its lean toll at set up was US$18k (£12,600) – course into capturing high-timbre 4K images.

The Variation 6 firmware upgrade, which will be usable at the conclusion of succeeding month, gives the VariCam LT 4K a fresh shading modality (enabling endure in-tv camera colour correction) as swell as add and come back video management; which are essentials for live product. A new ’live mode’ buff setting has besides been added to thin sports fan resound.

It will besides be possible to remotely verify the camera’s functions exploitation Panasonic’s AK-HRP1000 remote control ensure panel, enabling outside look-up remit (LUT) management, setting Indian file selection, remote REC contain and yell run.

Survive grading software, including from Colorfront, Lightning bug and Codex, volition likewise be able-bodied to remotely upload LUTs and deal the camera’s feel.

The Varicam LT’s two individual SDI outputs stand for it’s conceivable to end product dissimilar color settings, ace plumb position for broadcast medium or recording, and unrivalled monitoring reckon for condition check, markers and menus.

Luc Bara, field of study mathematical product coach for Panasonic, said: "This a la mode firmware promote of the VariCam LT volition name this the better enceinte sensor television camera to economic consumption for lively product applications so much as TV shows, concerts and embodied events. It’s a complete agree of the elan of the far-famed Varicam await and the matter of Panasonic’s expertise in diffuse television camera systems. It makes the photographic camera an implausibly various all-libertine."