Latest camera news from Panasonic

GTC sponsor Panasonic has announced the AK-HC3900 HDR studio camera system (upgradable to 4K) and the AW-UE100, the industry's first 4K/60P PTZ camera to support high bandwidth NDI and SRT.

AK-HC3900 studio camera system

A future-proofed professional camera system ideal for broadcast, education and corporate markets

In an expansion to its AK series studio and field camera line-up, Panasonic has announced the cost-effective AK-HC3900 1080p HDR studio camera system, which will be upgradable to native 4K 60p/50p. The new AK-HC3900 is ideal for broadcast, education and corporate markets. It follows in the footsteps of the company’s AK-HC3800, a model that has defined high-quality professional systems and cost-efficient production for close to a decade.
 
Improvements distinguishing the AK-HC3900 include a full simultaneous HDR/SDR feature set, expanded multi-format capability (1080: 59.94p, 50p, 59.94i, 50i, 29.97PsF, 25PsF, 23.98PsF; 720: 59.94p/50p) and a future upgrade option to 4K 60p/50p production with native 4K video and 2000TV horizontal resolution.

“The AK-HC3900 represents a cost effective and highly capable professional camera system for broadcast, education and corporate markets that has been future-proofed for long-term use,” said Stefan Hofmann Dipl.-Ing., Manager Sales Engineering, Panasonic Broadcast & ProAV. “The AK-HC3900GJ/GSJ captures its raw image from an internal 4K imaging system to deliver its stunning HD HDR images with ITU-R BT.2020 wide colour space. The Internal 4K capture also means that the future optional 4K system upgrade will yield a full 2000 TV lines horizontal resolution.”

The AK-HC3900 achieves a high sensitivity of F10 at 59.94Hz (2,000 lx) and a S/N ratio of 62 dB. The camera offers a built-in motorised ND filter.

The new cost-effective AK-HCU250 camera control unit (CCU), in combination with the new AK-HRP250 remote operation panel (ROP), will connect the high-grade uncompressed video and control to the camera head via optical fibre or utilise SMPTE Hybrid cable to provide camera power as well.
 
The AK-HC3900, AK-HCU250 and AK-HRP250 will be available in the fourth quarter of CY2020, with pricing to be announced.

Main features

• Equipped with a large image sensor, achieving high resolution, high sensitivity and low noise.
• Equipped with lens Chromatic Aberration Compensation (CAC), skew reduction function and Dynamic Range Stretcher (DRS) function.
• Supports High Dynamic Range (HDR) and ITU-R BT.2020 wide colour space.
• Supports 4K upgrade (option).

Further information about the AK-HC3900 system

Panasonic AW-UE100

Industry's first 4K/60P PTZ camera to support high bandwidth NDI and SRT, ideal for high-quality live remote and studio production for broadcast, staging, corporate and sports events

Panasonic has announced the AW-UE100 integrated pan/tilt/zoom (PTZ) camera, which supports a wide variety of IP transmission protocols, including high-bandwidth NDI, high-efficiency NDI|HX and Secure Reliable Transport (SRT).

The AW-UE100 has a newly designed direct drive motor for smooth pan and tilt movement and offers installation flexibility, low noise and high-resolution image capture. It is ideal for high-quality live remote and studio production for broadcast, staging, corporate and sports events.

It features a 1/2.5-type 4K MOS sensor to produce stunning UHD 4K/60p video and offers a wide variety of interfaces including 12G-SDI, 3G-SDI, HDMI and IP. Suitable for capturing images in tight spaces to large venues, the UE100 has exceptional capabilities. A wide-angle lens with a horizontal view angle of 74.1 degrees enables a wide area to be shot from a limited installation space, and its 24x optical zoom maintains high image quality at high zoom ratios, permitting shooting in large indoor spaces.

For low latency, live video transmissions, the UE100 offers high-bandwidth NDI for transmitting 4K/60p video at speeds of approximately 250 Mbps and for transmitting full HD video at approximately 100 Mbps, all over a single LAN cable. It also offers high-efficiency, low bandwidth NDI®|HX to enable video transmission at low bitrates. SRT maintains stability when transmitting high-quality video, even in unstable network environments; and its RTMP/RTMPS function provides direct streaming via a single cable to live broadcasting services such as YouTube Live and Facebook Live.

The AW-UE100 will be available in both black and white versions in third quarter 2020, with pricing to be announced.

Further information about the AW-UE100

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