Sony PDW-F1600

Sony PDW-F1600

Sony's companion deck to the F800. The F1600 is Sony's only XDCAM deck capable of playing back and recording natively in 23.98 frames a second. The deck is designed for both field and in house use, and incorporates a 4.3" LCD screen for recording/playback and Thumb nail view for clip preview and editing. The F1600 is designed for high speed transfer at approximately 220Mb/s, making it ideal for field and in house editing.

New Sony PDW-F800 available

Just in at Picture This:

-Sony PDW-F800 CineAlta XDCAM HD camera

-Sony PDW-F1600 CineAlta XDCAM HD Deck

Sony PDW-F800

Currently available for rental is Sony's newest and highly anticipated high definition camera, the PDW-F800. Capable of recording multiple formats, resolutions and frame rates, the new F800 is Sony's top of the line full size camera. The camera records the new XDCAM HD422 codec on to either a 23GB or 50GB XDCAM disc. XDCAM HD422 is capable of recording 1080P,1080i, and 720P at 23.98,29.97 and 59.94 frame rates at 1920/1080. The F800 is also Sony's first full size XDCAM HD camera capable of over/under cranking.

Histogram, Histogram, what art thou, O histogram

Read the Histogram

Because this image was overexposed, its tones are clustered on the right side of the histogram.

The key to correcting an image’s tone problems lies in understanding the histogram that appears at the top of the Adjust palette. The histogram is a bar chart that shows the distribution of tones in an image. Black is on the far left edge, white is on the right, and everything else is in between.

By learning to interpret what the histogram is telling you, you can take much of the guesswork out of correcting bad photos and discover ways to make good photos even better. Usually, you want photos with as broad a range of tones as you can get. Think about boxes of crayons: you can create a much more detailed image with 64 different crayons than you can with just eight. Likewise, if the bars in the histogram are crammed together in a narrow space, your image probably doesn’t have the resources it needs to depict subtle detail.

With a well-exposed image, the histogram’s bars will stretch across the full range of the graph. If your histogram’s bars are clumped on either the left or the right side, the image is probably underexposed (lacking good highlights) or overexposed (lacking good shadows), respectively. If the bars don’t stretch to either edge, then your image lacks contrast.

Reprinted by permssion of Ben Long:

www.completedigitalphotography.com.

Another Succesful Event!

I am glad to announce that another successful show is in the can. We recently descended into the depths of the waterfront marriott and navigated the most confusing elevator button labeling system ever devised by mankind to set up for a truly unique corporate awards ceremony. The show kicked off with a re-cut of MJ's "Thriller" edited and overdubbed with a Michael Jackson sound alike changing the lyrics to reflect the nature of Printer/Copier sales and service. Around the time the Vincent Price voiceover started, about a dozen professionally made up zombies ambled into the room and flopped onto the stage just in time to be reanimated into Jackson Backup dancers. The dancers were amazing! We put on a great light show, video was handled through HD projectors spraying widescreen 9x16' surfaces and the sound system really got to go through a workout.

If only all corporate events could be this fun.

At the event's conclusion, our crew came in loaded for bear because we had to get the whole show out the door in 90 minutes. We would usually expect a strike this size to tack 3-4 hours. everyone worked together like a finely tuned machine. Jonathan set to work re-setting the projectors and screens for the events banquet portion while I coordinated with the DJ to make all the pieces come together. The first show got broken down with twelve minutes to spare!
...The rhumors are true, Picture This is, in fact, awesome.

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Pan and Tilt Professional Style

Okay, so we have all seen them, and wish we could get some practice time on a geared head.

Well now you can! The Worral Geared head is now available in thePTPS eq. room for free practice sessions and with time and some practice you can operate with style, and upgrade that day rate.

Super smooth, super cool and another skill for your bag of tricks.

A great tool for that next feature. Impress your clients and be the envy of the other DP's.

Come on in and put some time in, and see whats new this month at PTPS.

Thanks to Mark Loring for the video with our new head and tilt plate, and yes.....

the Red camera is available too!

Handles up to 170 lbs. so even Panavision cameras are okay.......

Come on, you know ya want to try it, so stop on in. a give it a whirl.

Just in !PDWF1600 Sony Professional Disc Recorder

Wow, We love the Sony XD camera format. Paired with our New PDW-800 you have a winning combination.

The PDW-F1600 is a compact HD recorder which provides outstanding picture quality of MPEG HD422 as well as an eight-channel (HD-SDI), 24-bit audio recording capability. The foundation of the PDW-F1600 deck incorporates the features of the PDW-HD1500, and acts as more than just file-based recording deck. With its insert/assemble editing capability, it can be used as a recorder in a linear editing system - just like a conventional VTR. 23.98P and SD legacy formats are supported as standard. What's unique about this deck is its ability to operate on AC, DC or power. With its large 4.3-inch* LCD and built-in speaker, it performs as a versatile and high-quality recorder which is suitable for both in-house and field operations. It comes equipped with a multi-format up/down converter, which is highly useful when employing both HD- and SD-format materials at the same time. *Measured diagonally.

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