Olympus Shows New Billy Bad A HD Camera

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Olympus showed a new high-resolution camera system—the SH-880TM camera and SH-880TR hard disk drive recorder—that acquires 1,600-line images with four 8.3 million-pixel HD image sensors at the recent Hollywood Post Alliance (HPA) Retreat, in Rancho Mirage, Calif. The company calls it "Quad HD" recording. On the prism, each sensor is offset by a half pixel in a Bayer array configuration.

Olympus is positioning this as a digital cinema camera for feature productions, live concerts, sports and medical training. Veteran DP David Stump, ASC, is currently testing the camera in his Studio City, Calif., facility.

Leveraging the company's expertise in digital still cameras, the output of the camera is said to be 3840x2160 with over 1,600 TV lines of horizontal resolution. The camera weighs about 20 pounds and uses 2/3-inch lenses. It also includes an optical cable interface, allowing data to be transferred over a distance of one kilometer or more.

Data can be transferred directly from the recorder to an uncompressed editing environment in real-time using the four-channel HD-SDI fiber connection, or to a PC via Gigabit Ethernet.

The companion 480 GB SH-880TR recorder offers a hard disk capacity of an hour of video. Both camera and recorder can operate under battery or AC power.

Olympus has developed the VisionPlex automatic image calibration system for large-screen display with multiple projectors, the finished images can be reviewed at the full 1,600 line resolution.

To showcase the "Octavision" system, Olympus has opened a theater with complete digital movie production and editing facilities at its Hatagaya plant in Tokyo.



It Looks Like something I would get at Toys are Use. Well Except for the lense that is.
 
lol -- I was gonna say,

Would YOU show up to a shoot with that blue body??

Specs look interesting though.

Are we talking $40 - 60k range?

CaptM
 
8gb per minute of footage.. I can't imagine the computer power you'd need to edit. crazy
 
looks like my old Philco SVHS camera..... except the Philco wasn`t Barney Purple.
 
I would guess it would have to be in the $40-$60 without glass.
The thing I thought was interesting is that they have come up with there own projector system so you can watch the full resoultion and It also includes an optical cable interface, allowing data to be transferred over a distance of one kilometer or more. That is a long way..
I also thought it was cool that you can connect over ethernet..
 
I had a SuperSoaker that looked just like that, except my parents wouldn't let me get the mattebox attachment like all the cool kids had.
 
That thing wouldn't last five minutes in my house, my girlfreind would try to vacuum the floor with it :)
 
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