Sony PMW-F3

• With PL Mount Adapter
• 35mm Cine Lens Compatibilitys
• 1920 x 1080 HD, Native 23.98p
• MPEG-2 Long GOP
• 1080/720, Interlace/Progressive Modes
• PCM Uncompressed 16-bit Audio
• 10-bit 4:2:2 HD-SDI Output
• Genlock, Timecode
• (2) SxS Memory Card Slots

PMW-F3L Super 35mm Full-HD Compact Camcorder

The camera's newly developed Super 35mm-size CMOS sensor offers a variety of advantages over smaller sensors, including increased control over depth of field, higher sensitivity in low light, lower image noise, and an exceptional dynamic range. Unlike smaller, broadcast-style sensors or the larger "full-frame" sensor found in some DSLRs, the PMW-F3's chip is on a par with Hollywood film cameras, in terms of field of view and depth of field.

Using a solid-state workflow based on the XDCAM EX platform, the PMW-F3 records natively to professional SxS media, using the MPEG-2 long GOP codec in an 8-bit 4:2:0 color space. More demanding applications can utilize the camera's dual-link HD-SDI ports to output to an external recorder in 10-bit 4:2:2 or 10-bit RGB . Meanwhile the combination of four HyperGamma settings provide RAW-like flexibility to the image data, allowing for increased picture control and dynamic range.