Sony F23 FreshDV interview

You can get the full video up at http://www.freshDV.com they covered NAB and they provide really good videos I recommend you check them all out.
I posted this due to the lack of F23 love on youtube and also the fact that he says 13 STOPS DYNAMIC RANGE! Is it true? lets see....

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Entertainment

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• Sony
• F23
• Digital
• cinematography
• FreshDV
• Cinealta

[TVperson1]

Why is this camera so much when it doesn't do 4k?

[rivercraig]

It's a different breed of camera, VERY high end. Besides Picture quality is about more then resolution

[mouimen]

its for movies

[TVperson1]

Ok, what makes it so expensive? Better contrast, colour resolution (most if not all D-cinema cameras are 4:4:4), better codec? Please tell me the expensive part. I mean, I'd only expect it to be $60,000, but then again they sell the regular HDCAM 3:1:1 for more than the RED, but I still would like to know why.

[Elvarks]

Beat 42 MB/S for under 5K

[dvamateur]

@rivercraig Finaly, someone is thinking right. Unfortunately, the mainstream public thinks the more pixels the better. Well, high resolution sounds nice from marketing point of view, but it doesn't have much to do with quality, really.

[meggawatts]

exactly but my point was about compression and how the RED compressed it

[dvamateur]

@meggawatts Any camera equiped with SDI or HD-SDI can output uncompressed video. The tape recorder on a Sony camera is only a convenient recording option. If you want, you can tether the camera to a hard-drive and record uncompress video through SDI output. But then you need someone else to operate the harddrive, which is not convenient. A one-take (no cuts) Russian Ark movie was done that way. My point is, the recorder on a camcorder can be bypassed and you can record from SDI output.

[meggawatts]

except the RED can shoot RAW video with no compression if you want

[dvamateur]

The RED ONE cameras use 1:9 to 1:10 compression ratio, which is a bit starved. Even standard DV provides 1:5 compression ratio. The ability to record in HDCAM-SR with 440Mbits/sec is very good. It also has three CCDs as opposed to RED ONE single CMOS. So, in effect, the Sony might actually resolve more lines than the 4K system with too strong of a compression.

[TVperson1]

have to agree with you there, maybe it's more reliable or offers some reassurance to elitists.

[TVperson1]

Certainly does.