Sony Unveils Veteran 3-D Camcorder

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Mar 8, 2011 3:24 PM, By Michael Grotticelli

During his keynote residence at the 2010 NAB Show as segment of the Digital Cinema Summit, John Honeycutt, senior manager clamp boss and head of general business operations at Discovery International, introduced a antecedent 3-D camcorder to be built by Sony, whilst he moreover voiced skeleton for a 3-D duct from Discovery, Sony and IMAX. The new channel, right away called 3net, launched progressing this year.

At 2011 NAB Show, Sony will betray the prolongation model of the camcorder, that Honeycutt called "the camera of the future." The 3-D XCDAM shoulder-mount HD camcorder captures images with two 1/2in 3CMOS (six sensors appropriation at 1920 x 1080 resolution) Exmor imagers and archives up to 6 hours on two well-defined SxS solid-state cards, for left and right eyes; it can moreover be used for 2-D HD recording. Up to 6 hours may be prisoner on 4 64GB hot-swappable SxS cards.

The camcorder, that is 3-D/2-D-switchable, features two presynchronized prearranged lenses, set for a minimum joining stretch of 1.2m, with joining manage settings. The camera archives images dense with MPEG-2 using 4:2:0 vigilance processing. It moreover provides handbook lens manage around 3 rings located on the left side of the camcorder. An outward ring controls the zoom, concentration in the center and joining using the inner ring. Iris manage is located next to the 3 handbook controls.

The firm will moreover uncover a compact, handheld 3-D camcorder, segment of Sony's NXCAM product line, that features a singular CMOS HD (with 24p mode) sensor, an autostereoscopic (glasses-free) 3.5in LCD manifestation to offer as a viewfinder, XLR audio connectors and two shotgun microphones.