Overview 1 Chapter

•You can select an interlaced scan mode or progressive scan mode (30 fps (frames per second)2) for the PDW- 510/530, 25 fps for the PDW-510P/530P).

•With the optional CBK-FC01 Pull Down Board installed, a 24 fps3) progressive scan video can be recorded subjected to pull-down, providing imaging quality close to that of film. (PDW-510/530 only)

1)Abbreviation of “Power Hole-Accumulated Diode.” “Power HAD” is a registered trademark of Sony Corporation.

2)More precisely, 29.97 fps

3)More precisely, 23.98 fps

You can also assign any settings to the USER menu, to create customized menus.

Saving and recalling settings in a “Memory Stick”

Using an optional “Memory Stick” 1), you can save menu settings for particular shooting conditions, for recall as required.

1) “Memory Stick” is a trademark of Sony Corporation.

Camera signal processing for high quality video

•The 12-bit A/D converter provides high image quality, stability, and reliability.

•The high-performance electronic shutter allows you to select extended clear scan mode (ECS 1)) and high vertical resolution mode (EVS 2)), to obtain clear, high- quality video.

1)ECS: Extended Clear Scan

2)EVS: Super Enhanced Vertical Definition System

Shooting functions to cope with different shooting conditions

•A slow shutter function (up to 1/2 second) is provided as a standard feature. This allows noiseless shooting under very poor lighting conditions and a variety of expressive possibilities, such as shots of flowing streams which are smoothed out by afterimages.

•You can easily recall sets of adjustment values from memory, to match the particular lighting conditions.

•The ATW 1) function provides automatic white balance adjustment in response to changing lighting conditions.

•The TruEye TM 2) process yields distortion-free video, even with high intensity colors.

•The TURBO GAIN button enables an instantaneous boost of the video gain to the maximum 48 dB.

1)ATW: Auto Tracing White balance

2)TruEye: “TruEye” is a registered trademark of Sony Corporation.

Freeze mix function

This allows a still image from the previously captured video to be aligned with the video output from the camera. Thus you can adjust the camera position to get exactly the same framing for new shooting.

Wide range of menu settings

The menus provide the following operations, among others.

•Status display, message, and marker display settings

•Camera adjustment settings

•Switch function assignment

•“Memory Stick” operations

High-functionality viewfinder

The 2-inch monochrome viewfinder allows accurate focusing.

The switch settings, automatic black balance and white balance items, status, warnings and so on appear on the viewfinder screen.

1-1-3 Features of the Optical Disc Drive (VDR)

Recording and playback in clip units

Each time you start and stop recording, this creates an independent clip.

•During recording, material is always written to unused parts of the disc. Therefore, even when playing back between shooting sessions, there is no danger of inadvertently overwriting the previous recording.

•Immediately after recording, you can delete clips you decide not to keep, allowing efficient use of the available disc capacity.

•During playback, you can check the recorded video and audio by viewing thumbnail images of clips on the disc and jumping instantly to the first frames of other clips.

•The i.LINK 1) (FAM (File Access Mode)) function allows you to transfer clip files by connecting a computer, or by connecting the unit to a network with the CBK-NC01 Network Adaptor (option).

1) i.LINK is a trademark of Sony Corporation.

Picture cache recording

Video and audio for a maximum of 10 seconds is always held in memory, so that when you start recording, it is possible to record from just before the REC START button was pressed.

Time-lapse video (intermittent recording) function

You can record video intermittently, capturing any number of frames at any desired time interval.

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