Sony is following Panasonic with a new pro-level camcorder that uses lenses from Sony’s stills cameras. Provisionally named the NXCAM, it will share a lens mount, and lenses, with the little NEX mirrorless cameras.
If you had any doubts that lenses were the most important part of a camera system, they should be evaporating right about now. With a clutch of Sony or Panasonic lenses, you can choose between different kinds of camera bodies to do whatever you like.
Like the NEX cameras, the NXCAM will have a big sensor, although not quite as big as Sony’s misleading press release would have you believe. It is listed as being a “Super-35mm equivalent large format CMOS sensor.” Super 35 film is used in movies, and is the same size as the 35mm film in your old SLR. However, the images are shot “sideways” on the strip: if you held the film-strip up vertically, the movie images would be horizontal, and quite a bit smaller than what we know as “full-frame” these days. (The “super” part comes from the expansion of the image into the space normally occupied by the optical sound track).
Still, if it’s good enough for the movies, etc. Further details are still thin, but we do know that the video will be captured in AVCHD format, shooting at 1080p in 60p, 30p, 24p, 50p and 25p frame rates. Bigger Alpha lenses will also fit on the box, via an adapter.
The NXCAM will be available in the middle of 2011.
Press release [Sony/DP Review]
See Also:
- Sony's NEX Mirrorless Cameras Are the Smallest in the World …
- Sony Puts NEX SLR Sensor in Camcorder
- Sony NEX Camcorder Revealed: SLR Sensor in $2000 Package
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