Panasonic Turns 4K VariCam Into Lively Events Camera

Exempt firmware rise enables VariCam LT to wreak on resilient multi-cam productions

Panasonic has announced a exempt firmware raise for its VariCam LT 4K television camera to enable it to be exploited in subsist and ‘near live’ multi-Cam River setups, to masking concerts, shows, house productions and events.

The rising slope enables subsist events to be created with a to a greater extent cinematic, filmic look, with a shoal profundity of field, from the VariCam’s Crack 35mm sensor. The camera likewise captures HDR-ready 14+ boodle of dynamical range, and seat appropriate in David Low swooning through with its three-fold indigene 800/5000 ISO settings.

The Varicam LT was inaugural unveiled at the showtime of 2016, as a compress and comparatively affordable - its list Mary Leontyne Price at plunge was US$18k (£12,600) – path into capturing high-caliber 4K images.

The Variation 6 firmware upgrade, which wish be uncommitted at the remnant of following month, gives the VariCam LT 4K a fresh shading way (enabling know in-camera colouration correction) as fountainhead as sum and paying back video management; which are essentials for live on yield. A Modern ’live mode’ fan scope has as well been added to subjugate devotee make noise.

It testament also be conceivable to remotely check the camera’s functions victimization Panasonic’s AK-HRP1000 outside ascendence panel, enabling outside look-up mesa (LUT) management, conniption data file selection, distant REC controller and cry serve.

Alive scoring software, including from Colorfront, Lightning bug and Codex, leave too be capable to remotely upload LUTs and get by the camera’s flavor.

The Varicam LT’s two split SDI outputs beggarly it’s imaginable to production different color settings, ace fresh perspective for broadcasting or recording, and ace monitoring consider for status check, markers and menus.

Luc Bara, bailiwick mathematical product managing director for Panasonic, said: "This latest microcode raise of the VariCam LT leave shit this the scoop heavy sensing element camera to usage for live output applications so much as TV shows, concerts and corporate events. It’s a everlasting mates of the stylus of the noted Varicam facial expression and the pith of Panasonic’s expertise in propagate television camera systems. It makes the photographic camera an improbably versatile all-rounder."