Product Details
The DNW-9WS makes it easy and cost effective to bridge the transition from the 4:3 world to the growing world of 16:9. Equipped with 2/3 inch CCDs, it incorporates 10-bit / 36 MHz signal processing and the superb picture quality of Betacam SX digital recording format. Highly mobile in the field with an operating weight of less than 14 lbs., the DNW-9WS is shorter in length with a lower center of gravity than a 1/2 inch CCD analog camera. It also has an integrated slot for a wireless receiver, a Power Tap connector to power on-camera lights, set-up card efficiency for operator preferences and video parameters and an internal system for generating an edit decision list. • Native Widescreen CCDs The DNW-9WS is equipped with 3 2/3 inch 16:9 ratio CCDs that contain 520,000 pixels each. Their interline transfer design assures low noise with 63dB headroom, amazing low light and bright light image capture, and superior color and contrast quality in both widescreen and standard 4:3 ratios. • Beta SX Recording Format Beta SX is one of a long line of ubiquitous 1/2 inch professional tape formats that has long been Sony's hallmark. SX records using 8-bit analog to digital conversion, MPEG-2 @ ML compression bundling, and 4:2:2 component color sampling. The result is long tape lengths (62 minutes maximum), up to 4 channels of uncompressed digital audio, and broadcast video quality to take you from studio production to ENG, to event video acquisition all the way to independent digital film production. • TruEye Process One function of the sophisticated Digital Signal Processor is the TruEye system. TruEye processes brightness, hue, and saturation data for much the same results as your own eyes produce. Scenes achieve wider dynamic range with very little distortion. Reproducing natural looking skin tone detail and controlling bright or dark conditions within a whole scene are what the processor does most effectively. • Dyna-Latitude Contrast Processing A sub-feature of the TruEye processing is Dyna-Latitude. By managing the contrast of each pixel compared with those around it, the DNW-9WS more efficiently utilizes the dynamic range of the video signal. DynaLatitude processing brings film-like contrast management to video shooters. Dynamic Contrast Control (DCC) lets the shooter achieve low light or bright light detail.