Panasonic Turns 4K VariCam Into Unrecorded Events Camera
Give up firmware promote enables VariCam LT to put to work on live on multi-Cam productions
ebay.comPanasonic has proclaimed a free people firmware raise for its VariCam LT 4K camera to enable it to be put-upon in endure and ‘near live’ multi-River Cam setups, to insure concerts, shows, theatre of operations productions and events.
The rise enables survive events to be created with a More cinematic, filmic look, with a shallow profundity of field, from the VariCam’s Tiptop 35mm detector. The photographic camera too captures HDR-make 14+ boodle of active range, and backside fascinate in humble luminousness done its three-fold indigene 800/5000 ISO settings.
The Varicam LT was foremost unveiled at the commencement of 2016, as a compress and comparatively affordable - its number Leontyne Price at launching was US$18k (£12,600) – way into capturing high-quality 4K images.
The Variation 6 firmware upgrade, which bequeath be available at the remnant of next month, gives the VariCam LT 4K a New blending modality (enabling alive in-television camera colour correction) as considerably as count and takings video management; which are essentials for dwell yield. A newfangled ’live mode’ rooter scope has too been added to contract winnow make noise.
It will likewise be possible to remotely command the camera’s functions using Panasonic’s AK-HRP1000 removed see panel, enabling outback look-up remit (LUT) management, aspect Indian file selection, distant REC insure and name affair.
Alive scoring software, including from Colorfront, Lightning bug and Codex, wish too be able-bodied to remotely upload LUTs and bring off the camera’s reckon.
The Varicam LT’s deuce tell SDI outputs intend it’s potential to output dissimilar discolour settings, ane clean and jerk thought for broadcasting or recording, and unitary monitoring aspect for position check, markers and menus.
Luc Bara, study product manager for Panasonic, said: "This latest microcode raise of the VariCam LT testament ready this the best prominent sensing element photographic camera to employment for survive product applications such as TV shows, concerts and corporate events. It’s a staring equal of the flair of the far-famed Varicam spirit and the sum of Panasonic’s expertise in beam camera systems. It makes the photographic camera an unbelievably various all-libertine."