Sony CineAlta PMW-F55 - Camcorder - 4K - 11.6 MP - body only - flash card

Features

• Highlights:
• Super 35mm equivalent 4K single-chip CMOS sensor -
• The PMW-F55's Sony 4K image sensor captures a true 4K 4096 x 2160 DCI-standard cinema image.
• Its 4K CMOS sensor features 11.6 megapixels (total) and 8.9 megapixels (effective).
• 16-bit RAW 2K/4K recording options with bolt-on AXSR5 recorder -
• Capture RAW at your choice of resolutions: the camera's native 4K or beautiful, derived 2K.
• RAW recording preserves the greatest latitude for color correction and other post processes.
• Sony's 16-bit recording captures more tonal values than the human eye can differentiate.
• Sony RAW retains 16 times as many Red, Green and Blue gradations as 12-bit RAW and 64 times as many tones per channel as 10-bit recording.
• Sony 16-bit linear RAW is also the ideal point of entry into the 16-bit linear Academy Color Encoding System (ACES) workflow.
• AXSR5 records onto ASXM memory cards -
• The bolt-on AXSR5 recorder records onto sleek, high-capacity AXSM memory cards, which are compatible with an affordable optional USB 3.0 reader, the AXSCR1.
• Once on a PC, the RAW files can be screened using Sony's free RAW Viewer software.
• AXSM memory provides a super fast, affordable format for sensational quality recordings.
• Choice of HD/2K/4K internal recording formats -
• The F55 CineAlta camera allows you a choice of internal recording formats in addition to 16-bit RAW 2K/4K recording output onto the AXSR5.
• The camera incorporates high-speed SxS PRO+ memory card recording that allows the choice of: 8-bit MPEG-2 HD422, 50Mbps 10-bit XAVC 2K*/HD 100Mbps SR Codec 10-bit MPEG4 SStP 220, 440 * and XAVC 4K/QFHD* 300Mbps.
• All formats can be recorded at a range of interlace and progressive frame rates (see camera specifications for precise details).
• *Expected as a future upgrade.
• High speed shooting up to 60 fps 4K and180 fps 2K internally and 240 fps 2KRAW with optional AXSR5 recorder -
• The F55 features high-data-rate on-board XAVC HDrecordings up to 60 fps, plus a free planned upgrade to XAVC 4K, QFHD and 2Kup to 60 fps and XAVC 2K/HD up to180 fps.
• It also offers 240 fps 2K RAW with the optional AXSR5 outboard recorder and a planned upgrade, achieving the highest frame rates most productions will need, while retaining exceptional, 16-bit image quality.
• Simultaneous RAW and onboard camera SxS recording -
• Sony provides a coordinated "off-line, on-line" workflow with simultaneous recording to internal SxS cards and the optional AXSR5 RAW recorder.
• For seamless conforming in post, you get matching time code, start frame, stop frame, file names and other metadata.
• The camera supports the following RAW + Onboard combinations:
• RAW 4K/2K + XAVC 2K*/HD, RAW 4K/2K + MPEG-2 HD422 and RAW 2K + XAVC QFHD*/4K.
• * Expected as a future upgrade.
• Real world workflows -
• Sony understands a fundamental truth: working cameras require practical workflows.
• That's why the F5 is part of a larger production platform that includes affordable media cards, affordable card readers, free RAW Viewer software and compatibility with popular NLEs and finishing tools.
• Vast exposure latitude to 14 f-stops -
• The ability to render tones from deepest shadows to brightest highlights is a crucial test of any digital camera.
• The F55 excels, with an impressive 14 stops of exposure latitude, extraordinary low-light sensitivity and extremely low noise in the blacks.
• True color technology Sony believes that your camera should not limit your color palette.
• That is why the F55 incorporates the same advanced color filter array technology as used in Sony's flagship F65, which is equipped with the industry's only 8K sensor.
• You get a color gamut That's not only wider than other digital cameras.
• Incredible flexibility with the choice of PL-mount, FZ-mount and still lenses -
• The F55 is designed to accommodate PL-mount, FZ-mount and still lenses.
• With the PL-mount adaptor, you can take advantage of acclaimed cine optics from Angenieux, Canon, Carl Zeiss, Cooke, FUJIFILM, Leica and more.
• Real-time 4K output and other vital connections -
• The camera offers powerful connections, including real-time 4K output to a compatible monitor. It is made possible by four 3G-SDI outputs.
• There is also HDMI, connect5or Revolutionary electronic global shutter -
• The traditional CMOS image sensor uses a 'rolling' shutter that can result in images with unwanted distortions like motion skew and flash banding.
• That can be annoying, especially when shooting visual effects or 3D.
• Anything but typical, the F55 incorporates electronic global shutter.
• Rolling shutter distortions aren't minimized, they're completely eliminated