Sony PMW-100 digital camera delivers 50Mbps bitrate in an itty-bitty package

The PMW-100 connects the ever popular XDCAM HD422 line-up – making it the tiniest and least heavy digital camera in the XDCAM family.

Advancement in digital picture resolution technological innovation has permitted expert correspondents and videographers to cover testimonies by using convenient gadgets such as cell mobile phones, DSLRs and customer digital cams. However, in comparison to main-stream neck install digital cams, there is still a significant gap in picture excellent, convenience of modifying and information control. The PMW-100 defines the best of both planets, by documenting complete transmitted excellent MPEG HD422 movie within a hand-held form factor.

Equipped with a recently designed 1/2.9-inch "Exmor" CMOS indicator, it provides excellent picture efficiency and also defines the lowest lighting effects of 0.08lx. Presenting a 5.4-54mm (40-400mm in Negatives equivalent) contact, the flexible PMW-100 allow customers to perform in essentially any generation atmosphere where flexibility and versatility is sought after.

"The PMW-100 includes remarkable picture with flexibility and excellent manoeuvrability depending on the proven XDCAM work-flows, taking expert customers to a whole new level of efficiency. The progression of the PMW-100 is a natural step in the progression of the XDCAM range and is a immediate reaction to our customers specifications. Long-time XDCAM customers expected a light and lightweight digital camera that will not only perform effortlessly on its own, but also together with other XDCAM digital cams such as the recommended PMW-500," said Expenses Drummond, Ideal Marketing Administrator, Sony European countries.

The PMW-100 can handle full-HD movie at 1080i, 1080p and 720p up to 50 Megabyte per second MXF documenting and play-back depending on the MPEG HD422 codec using the conventional MPEG HD422 Lengthy GOP pressure technological innovation. It is also switchable to MPEG HD420 35/25Mbps or DVCAM 25Mbps. The PMW-100 can also record top excellent 24-bit four-channel sound at an uncompressed 48kHz.

It offers highest versatility of using a variety of documenting press such as the high-speed SxS storage as well as Memory Keep, SD greeting cards and XQD as the urgent situation secondly press. The new "SxS Memory Card Management Utility"* software will provide additional functional advantage with SxS storage, such as the information back-up operate and the life-time sign of the greeting cards in use.

Focusing on your topic and examining registered movie is very simple with the complete color 3.5-inch WVGA (852x480) LCD. The Slowly & Quick Movement operate allows customers to create creative fast and slow-motion movie from 1fps to 60fps in 720p operate and from 1fps to 30fps in 1080p operate.

The digital camera also features HD/SD-SDI result, Blend result, Genlock feedback, time value input/output, i.LINK (HDV/DV) input/output, and A/V result.

The PMW-100 will start delivery in May 2012.

* "SxS Memory Card Management Utility" will be available to obtain from May Tenth.