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Sony Digital Camcorder
HDW-F900R
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Exploring TM CineAlta – Liberating Movie Producers CineAlta – a name that proudly symbolizes the bond between cinematography and Digital high-definition imaging. It distinguishes a Sony family of products and systems that offer new levels of creativity in the production, postproduction, and exchange of motion pictures. It also brings together the quality and universality of 24-frame cinematography with the real-time capabilities, efficiency, and flexibility of Digital high-definition techn
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New Creative Ways of Movie and TV Program Production In 2000, Sony set a groundbreaking milestone in the motion cinema and television presentation. With these CineAlta TM picture industry by introducing the HDW-F900 camcorder, products using the HDCAM and HDCAM-SR formats, Sony which enabled high-definition digital images to be recorded offers an outstandingly comprehensive range of high-quality onto digital tape at 24 frames per second. This totally new gears, which allows customers to select
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Creative Versatility The HDCAM Format The 24-frame progressive capability of the Motion-capture for HDCAM format converges digital and film imaging, offering a new and novel creative flexibility for Cinematic Image prime time television production, commercial production, and movie-making. Since Sony Making introduced the HDCAM format in 1997, it has been field proven worldwide, as a technology This is the area where film and video have, that offers highly mobile, compact, and up until now
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The Art of Image-making New Ergonomics The progressive scan CCD sensor at the heart of the As part of Sony’s continuous efforts to make the design of our HDW-F900R marks a significant advance in Sony HAD CCD camcorders to be user-friendly and practical, stylish and technology. It is a development that now makes possible appealing, the design of the new HDW-F900R has been image capture over a range of frame rates, so that their greatly refined to increase the comfort and versatility. One quality
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Cassette Loading Internal Light System The cassette loading of the HDW-F900R is fast, simple, A two-pin socket in the HDW-F900R provides up to 50 and reliable. It takes less than 5 seconds* for cassette watts of power from the attached lithium-ion battery. change. This facility and long recording runs (40-50 This can be used to power a variety of ancillary minutes depending on the selected frame-rate) offer devices, including a front-light that can higher levels of efficiency on location. The lo
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Creative Versatility Dual HD-SDI Outputs In response to the strong requirements for convenient and high-quality on-set monitoring, two HD-SDI outputs have been incorporated into the HDW-F900R camera body as standard. This is an enhancement to the previous model, which offered HD-SDI output only through the use of an external camera adaptor. Recording on Sony HDCAM-SR Recorders The HDW-F950R can feed camera output signals via its HD-SDI connector for recording on external VTRs such as Sony SRW-
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Contrast Range The HDW-F900R can handle a very impressive contrast range. For the most challenging of light settings and associated scene conditions, several useful operational features are available that allow image optimization in real-time to help capture the desired mood of a shot. The first of these important functions is RGB Gamma Balance. By changing gamma balance, it is possible to change the color balance of the mid-tones without affecting Standard Gamma black and white balance. T
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Creative Versatility Enhanced Gamma Features In addition to artistic and skilful lighting, in-camera gamma setting plays important role to deal with contrast range and to give a specific “look” to the image. In order to meet a broad array of customers’ demands, the HDW-F900R offers flexible options to faithfully reproduce their desired “look” of the image. HyperGamma Low Light Condition HyperGamma is a set of new transfer functions designed to provide powerful contrast handling by making maxi
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Highlight Handling Sony Advanced TruEye™ processing in the HDW-F900R allows much improved highlight handling, with faithful color reproduction. Conventional Video Equipment TruEye Colorimetry The HDW-F900R produces pictures with astonishing color reproduction accuracy. Its Multi Matrix function also offers unique possibilities for creative intervention by allowing selective color enhancement or alteration. Multi Matrix allows a particular color to be selected and its hue changed over a range of
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Creative Versatility Definition – Picture Sharpness The HDW-F900R produces extremely delicate pictures with fine detail. The CCDs, each with 2.2 million pixels, faithfully capture images with natural sharpness. The HDW-F900R also incorporates some new and innovative image enhancement functions, allowing very precise control of the way the picture texture and edges are represented. The first of these new features is Soft Focus. The Soft Focus adjustment is particularly convenient for those who f
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Picture Stability Stop Motion and Time Lapse By its very nature any digital or video camera delivers rock With the HKDW-703 Picture Cache Board as standard, the steady pictures. The HDW-F900R is no exception. The HDW-F900R offers a frame-by-frame recording capability picture stability is particularly relevant for productions that provides stop-motion and time-lapse modes of operation incorporating multi-layered compositing special effects. in-camera. This offers new and innovative creative Imag
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Optional Accessories A full range of optional accessories is available to take full advantage of the versatility and operational features of the HDW-F900R. Down Converter Board (Optional) The HKDW-702 Down Converter Board* provides down-converted standard-definition (SD) output from the 1080/59.94i or 1080/50i HD signal with four-channel embedded audio. This makes it possible to monitor recording on-set using a conventional SD-based monitor. SD-SDI or analog composite can be selected via the
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Creative Versatility Picture Cache Board (Optional) Slow Shutter/Image Inverter Board The HKDW-703 Picture Cache Board, which was originally (Optional) developed for the HDW-750 series camcorders, is now The HKDW-905R Slow Shutter and Image Inverter Board** compatible with the HDW-F900R. It provides up to eight powerfully enhances the operational and creative versatility seconds of loop recording using solid state memory. Thus, of the HDW-F900R camcorder. With the HKDW-905R when the REC start
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Operational Accessories Color Viewfinders – HDVF-C30W (Optional) The HDVF-C30W, 2.7-inch(viewable area, measured diagonally) type HD LCD color viewfinder has been designed to provide the optimum visual information with a full-color and flicker-free TFT-LCD providing a resolution of 960 pixels horizontally x 540 pixels vertically for each R, G, and B color component, luminance level of 300 cd/m2 and 200:1 contrast ratio. In addition, the HDVF-C30W has several unique features to improve operabili
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Other Options Viewfinder Eyepiece Viewfinder Eyepiece Memory Stick AC-DN10 A-8262-537-A (High magnification) A-8314-798-A MSH-128 AC Adapter A-8262-538-A (Low magnification) (High-performance, x3) A-8267-737-A (Standard magnification with special compensation for aberrations) BP-L60S BC-M150 BP-GL95 BP-GL65 Info Li-Ion Battery Battery Charger Info Li-Ion Battery Info Li-Ion Battery BC-L70 BC-L500 WRR-855A/855B WRR-862A/862B Battery Charger Battery Charger Wireless Microphone Receiver Dual
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HDW-F900R Specifications General Mass 5.4 kg (11 lb. 14 oz) with typical ENG lens, cassette and BP-GL95 Battery Power requirement DC 12 V (+5.0 V/-1.0 V) Power consumption 38 W (With 12 V power supply, REC mode, with HDVF-20A) Operating temperature 0 °C to +40 °C (+32 °F to +104 °F) Storage temperature -20 °C to +60 °C (-4 °F to +140 °F) Operating humidity 25 % to 85 % (Relative humidity) Continuous operating time 110 min (With BP-GL95) Inputs/outputs Genlock video input BNC, 1.0 Vp-p 75 Ω Time
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©2006 Sony Corporation. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without written permission is prohibited. Features and specifications are subject to change without notice. All non-metric weights and measurements are approximate. Sony, HDVS, CineAlta, Digital Betacam, HDCAM, Memory Stick, Power HAD, and TruEye are trademarks of Sony. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. 24P is used as generic name in this literature for industry standard 24 PsF. Some of imag
