Sony F5 and F55 Rumor

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Peter G. Johnson

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From Sony Alpha rumors....

“The New sony camera is the F5 ($22-$25,000 range)! They are skipping the 4 model number and going to 5…They are aiming for the C300/500/Scarlet market with this.
Compression Schemes:
50 Mbps XDCam @ 422
80 Mbps XAVCHD @ 422
120 Mbps iframe compressed not XD Cam
220 Mbps “SR” @ 422 (only on new “SxS Raw+” Memory cards…. these are new!)
You can only record the full 4k frame with the R5 SR Recorder, otherwise you will record windowed footage.
120 frames per second in HD (1080), codec: XAVCHD
No on board 4K. Must use R5 recorder using a NEW type of memory card to record 4K and/or RAW.
R5 Recorder Suggested Price at the moment is $19,000! Not to mention the recording media. May change before the release.
There is also an F55 4K camera coming too, and that is what Sony is calling the direct competitor to the Epic. They think the Epic is way behind the F65…Seriously…
They will also be announcing a new set of lenses much better than their previous ones and at a t2.0 (set of 6 made by a famous lens company exclusively for Sony)…

If you already use a Sound Devices Pix 240 or a Convergent Gemini, why bother?
 
But your by-passing all the drama and build up, on the 40+ thread...."The Photoshopped fake peak", "The downfall of disappointment", "The Slight reveal...."
You could have been the climax! :happy:
 
I know! But I got bored after Page 2, skipped to Page 40 and the conversation had meandered. But seriously, it's a bit juvenile and elitist to play 'I've got a secret and I'm not going to tell you.' (For those who know what the rest of us don't.)

Seriously though, if this is what's being offered I'm quite happy to stick to the F3. Using very small brackets so I can very neatly fit a Pix 240 and Alphatron on the camera and power the whole thing via D-Tap and a Swit battery to make it nice and compact. So I get ProRes422, 10bit and a high resolution EVF. I'll wait for the PMW-F7 or PMW-F9 perhaps, when they get serious.
 
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