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video guide A Sound Pro’s Guide To Video HD Acquisition: Part 4 ne w s Digital may be making inroads into the filmmaking process, but film itself is still there, and there is still a need to record from it. To further push on this market, French camera and location audio recorder manufacturer Aaton and FilmLight, the British developer of image scanning and colour management systems for filmmaking, have formed a partnership to promote a new film recording system, which, they say, is markedly faster than conventional laser recorders. The Aaton K uses a telecentric lens and sensor, which its designers says makes it able to record film quicker and at higher resolutions than the laser equivalent. There are no moving parts in the system for the frame exposure process and the device is able to records at twice the speed of a laser recorder at k, and can produce a - increase in speed at k. MTF is claimed to be doubled at K for both colour inter-negative and positive films. The new product is seen as particularly suited to producing material for RGB archives on black and white separation film. Aaton K has a k CCD reflex analyser that automatically self-calibrates, doing away with the need for wedge shoot-outs and densitometer sessions. It also guarantees a consistent result from one project to another and one machine to the next. The device is able to work with intermediate, camera negative, print, colour reversal, and black and white. FilmLight is looking after sales, marketing, service, and support for the Aaton K, which is manufactured by Aaton. Under the agreement the Aaton K can be sold as a package with FilmLight’s Northlight scanner and Baselight  colour grading system to create a full k production chain. “The potential market for this system is huge,” said Wolfgang Lempp, founder of FilmLight. “The Aaton K sets a new benchmark in film recording that totally outperforms current laser recording technology. So good is the Aaton K that the resolution it achieves on film with a k source file is comparable to what a laser recorder achieves with a k source file. And at K there is simply no comparison.” “Aaton K establishes a new standard for performance in digital film recorders,” added Jean-Pierre Beauviala, founder of Aaton. “This system brings both higher speed and exceptionally high image resolution with extremely stable densitometric characteristics. Even when upgraded with the latest technology, laser recorders yield only half the speed of the Aaton K. For archiving film on black and white separations – an important business for years to come – the Aaton K is nine times as fast as current laser recorders.” > be shot on, even with the necessary accessories Sony sees the F as complementing the attached. Featuring a mm PL lens mount, the established F , and the two offering specific camera is able to take a variety of cinematography qualities for different kinds of shoot. The / -inch lenses, as well as the manufacturer’s own RED chip of the F is regarded as suiting long depths - mm F . CF optical. Outputs are in Red raw of field and low light conditions, while the Super form, recorded on to the Redmm sensor of the F would be Drive, a GB RAID array, the a main cinematography camera solid state Red-Ram or, the because of its full resolution preferred method, CompactFlash x RGB capability. cards through the Redflash The F also has a PL mount for module. a range of mm film lenses and Another newcomer to the their accessories. camera market in this brave digital Both the F and F have age is Weisscam, founded by the same housing, but the new The Red One. German Director of Photography camera has the one CCD array, as Stefan Weiss. His HS- is designed for very specific well as different lens mount. The Super mm size shoots, being a high-speed camera that can be used CCD employs a RGB stripe method of operation, on commercials, music promos, action sequences, rather than the interpolated bayer pattern approach and scientific films. The camera works at frame rates used by CMOS chips found on other cameras. of up to . fps in x pixel SD PAL : aspect This delivers full resolution x RGB ratio mode; fps x pixel for p : HD; outputs to be produced, and does not involve any and fps x pixel MAX. It has a x mm sub-sampling. The chip is able to handle a wide progressive scan CMOS Imager, -bit colour depth, dynamic range, with good definition between ASA sensitivity and an internal memory of GB. highlights and shadows, and particularly good The external control system runs using Windows XP Pro. quality definition in the blacks. As with the F , During IBC, Weisscam previewed the HS- in recording is on to a HDCAM SR VT deck, which is prototype form. This model operates at . fps connected on the back or top of the camera, or for k, . fps at p, and has RAW output for used as a standalone recorder linked by a cable. HD and SDI production. Prototypes of the F have been used in Japan to This year is turning out to be a significant one in get responses from DoPs, and the camera is now the development of digital cameras, with a further scheduled for a full release at the end of this year. new model coming from an early pioneer, Sony. This concludes Video Guide's comprehensive The manufacturer’s CineAlta range has been appraisal of cameras and camera technology. expanded with the F , which is being hailed as Next month, the crucial business of camera the new flagship. 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