Panasonic Announces VariCam Pure With Uncompressed 4K Raw 120 FPS

HJD said:
Very interesting news, but file sizes are probably going to be huge :)

https://www.cinema5d.com/panasonic-announces-varicam-pure-with-uncompressed-4k-120-fps/
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Panasonic let me know that this camera will retail for under $49k including the Codex recorder. Huge news. The old Varicam with the separate Codex recorder was well over $100k when I saw it at Panasonic in LA at the Varicam intro session. Smart move by Codex to get into the episodic market, they will make headway with this. Yes, file sizes are large but when you are shooting a network show, that's not a huge factor for most series. I believe that Codex has some new codec options that put the file sizes closer to the realm of Prores 444, totally manageable for a lot of shows. Who knows if it will be a big seller but it's a smart move by both companies.
 
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