Overview
Features
Compact, HD 3CCD video camera with built-in pan/tilt/zoom functions
•The camera integrates the HD 3CCD camera block, pan/tilt mechanism, and 12-magnification optical zoom with 4-magnification digital zoom in a compact body. The compactness and integration allow the camera versatile usage.
•The camera is provided with a wide-angle pan/tilt mechanism of ±170º horizontally, 90º upward and 30º
downward, which enables wide-range remote shooting.
•The new pan/tilt mechanism enabling smooth camera movement even at low speed realizes a minimum pan/ tilt speed of 0.25º per second.
•The pan/tilt mechanism is remarkably quiet, even at the maximum pan/tilt speed of 60º per second.
HD CCD camera with high image quality and high-resolution remote shooting
•The HD 3CCD camera system uses three 1/3-type HD CCDs containing a total of 1,120,000 picture elements that can shoot high-definition images to offer superior picture quality with high sensitivity and lower smear level.
•Shooting an image using the 1080i (effective interlaced scanning: 1080 lines) high-definition format, which is equivalent to the HDTV broadcast, is enabled. The HD format can be switched (1080/59.94i or 1080/50i) with the switch on the camera.
•A volume of information of four times the capacity of a normal TV broadcast (effective scanning: 480 lines) and camera image shot in 16:9 aspect ratio provides a theater-like wide screen picture.
Excellent optical performance allowing superior quality shooting
•Adoption of Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar ® T* lens with an aperture of 72 mm reduces chromatic aberration and achieves high-resolution at all corners of an image.
•Use of the multi-reflection reduction coating minimizes unnecessary light reflection inside the lens and significantly reduces flare and ghost to provide a realistic image with high contrast and superior color reproduction.
•The lens has a focal length of 32.5 mm to 390 mm (equivalent to a 35-mm camera). The wider zooming
range enables remote shooting of high-definition images with an aspect ratio of 16:9.
•Adoption of a 12-magnification optical zoom lens that enables zooming without deterioration in picture quality allows realistic high-definition images. Even when you shoot a subject using maximum magnification, clear images with minimum aberration can be obtained by a lens system that consists of 16 lenses of 11 groups containing three aspherical lenses.
•The camera is equipped with an optical active lens system that provides a picture blur compensation function to prevent deterioration in the quality. The lens itself moves up, down, left and right to compensate immediately for the blur of an optical axis. Three compensation effects are selectable according to shooting conditions.
Built-in interface card slot
The camera is equipped with an interface card slot for the optional HFBK-HD1 HD Interface Board, HFBK- SD1 SD Interface Board, HFBK-XG1 XGA Interface Board, HFBK-ST1 HDV Interface Board and BRBK- H700 HD Optical Multiplex Card. Use of these interface boards gives the camera the capability of having various image output formats.
Long-distance image transmission and pan/tilt/zoom control
•Combined use of the BRBK-H700 HD Optical Multiplex Card, CCFC-M100HG Optical Fiber Cable and BRU-H700 Optical Multiplex Unit, and Sony’s unique camera connection technology and optical digital multiplex transmission technology allows short to long distance (up to 1,000 m, or 3,281 feet) transmission of camera images and pan/tilt/zoom control signals. Use of the optical fiber cable enables an economical and easy system configuration for long distance.
•The supplied ceiling brackets allow installation of the camera on a ceiling.
VISCA camera protocol supported
•The camera is equipped with both RS-232C and RS- 422 communication interfaces. As the camera supports the industry-standard VISCA camera protocol, up to 7 cameras can be connected and remotely controlled at a high communication speed of 38,400 bps.
•The optional RM-BR300 Remote Control Unit allows easy camera operations.
•The VISCA protocol allows use of cameras and controllers of other manufacturers together with those of Sony.
