. Commutable entre formats MXF et MP4 pour l'enregistrement en modes XDCAM HD 422, XDCAM HD et XDCAM EX.
. Possibilité d'enregistrement de contenu MPEG IMX et DVCAM pour un migration pas à pas vers la HD.
. Interopérabilité avec la majorité des systèmes de NLE pour une migration de workflow fluide.
. Faible consommation d'énergie pour de plus longues durées d'enregistrement
. Four channels of uncompressed 48 kHz digital audio.
*Les supports recommandés pour caméscope PMW-500 sont les suivants :
SxS PRO : SBP-32, SBP-16, SBP-8
SxS-1 : SBS-64G1A, SBS-32G1A, SBS-32G1
(**seule la carte mémoire SBS-32G1 requiert une mise à jour firmware interne.)
Tarifs :
PMW-500 Prix HT 25 202 € HT
> Interview en Anglais d'un premier utilisateur du nouveau camescope Sony :
Paul Osborne is an award-winning filmmaker who has produced and directed over 700 corporate programmes during the past 25 years.
The PMW-500 was officially launched at IBC 2010, but I was lucky enough to get my hands on one for a short time a few weeks before the event.
Key features are a 2/3 inch CCD sensor with XDCAM HD 4:2:2 recording at up to 50 megabits a second onto solid state memory in one of two SxS slots. The latter point is most interesting to me both as a freelancer and as an owner of a production company.
Those of you familiar with the PDW-700 and PDW-F800, which both use optical Professional Disc media, will see some close similarities to the PDW-500. It fills a gap in Sony’s XDCAM range offering an alternative, solid state media choice if you are considering XDCAM at the highest of recording data-rates.
As a freelancer/cameraman the PMW-500 ticks all the boxes. The quality of imagery broadens the versatility of your material, the compatibility of the robust SxS cards, a media and workflow that many of us are really comfortable with, 4 hours of recording on board at HD422, and finally the ability to hot swap the cards for continuous recording. There are also some nice added features, and tools that will make a difference out in the field.
As a production company owner, or indeed as a broadcaster, I can see the choice now offered: you have option of the top end feature set of the PDW-700 with Professional optical disc, or this PMW-500 with SxS cards.
PMW-500s in action :
The handling of this camera is as expected from Sony and familiar to most of us. Sony clearly have been listening as there are a few tweaks that must be the result of talking to us. The functions are very similar to those of you who have used the PDW-700 or maybe the PMW-350. The PMW-500 is the same size as the 700, but just under a kilogramme lighter. It also has improved power consumption, around 33W, 10 watts less than the 700, giving you almost three hours of operation from a BPL80. Having been used to the frugal consumption of the EX1 and EX3, I don’t really want to have to compromise on the way I work (if shooting on a full size camera), so having the 500’s power efficiency is helpful.
Viewfinders are something dear to most cameramen and this will ship with a choice of viewfinders. I have an excellent monochrome one from Sony's impressive range. Many of you will have seen other viewfinders on other camcorders, such as the PMW-350 and EX3, and this camcorder has connectors for both the established and newest viewfinders from the range.