Varicam 35 vs Varicam LT Questions

[Chiskon]

Planning on recommending the LT for a station I contract for that should be building up a field production kit soon.

While looking up the LT, noticed and wanted to verify that although the Varicam 35 is the more expensive model...it doesn't do 240fps cropped like the LT or send RAW out other than with a Codex? Or was that in a firmware update that I didn't find.

 

[Run&Gun]

The V35 tops out at 120fps, but it will do up to 120fps at 4K. The LT will do up to 240fps at 2K cropped, but over 60fps with the LT you don't have a choice of cropped or full sensor, it's all cropped. And the LT tops out at 60fps at 4K.

I've been demo'ing an LT for the last several days and Panasonic got a lot of things right, especially with the control panel and menu(except the placement of the control panel), but I'm still not in-love with it.

 

[Mitch Gross]

VariCam 35 is 4K up to 120p. You can stick a Codex V-RAW1 recorder on the back, but very few clients ever wanted to record video and RAW simultaneously and it made the camera very long and power hungry. So we worked with Codex to develop the V-RAW2 back, which is interchangeable with the video recorder section of the VariCam 35. When you swap out the video recorder back for the RAW recorder back, you transform the camera from a VariCam 35 to a VariCam Pure.

VariCam LT can shoot 4K up to 60p and 2K up to 240p. It can output RAW to an Atomos or Convergent Design recorder at those frame rates. Currently certain model Atomos recorders can capture 4K up to 30p in 10-bit as RAW DNG or 4K up to 60p as ProRes. Convergent Design Odyssey7Q & 7Q+ recorders can capture 4K up to 60p in 12-bit or 10-bit in RAW DNG or 2K up to 240p in 10-bit RAW DNG.

The sensor is identical in both cameras. In addition to frame rate differences, there are some recording differences as well, such as the VariCam LT cannot capture 4K 444. Both cameras have Dual Native ISO, proxy recording to SD cards, and full paint control via 3D-LUTs or CDL that can be set on the camera, via ethernet directly from popular color correction programs, or even over wifi using out free IOS app.

Please feel free to reach out to me anytime and I can assist in your planning out of the kit.