Sony has added two handheld camcorders for streaming and broadcasting aimed squarely at particular person creators and small groups – though Sony is promising that this may be performed with the minimal of expertise, good for these postpone by the technical challenges of reside broadcasts.
The brand new camcorders have the catchy names of the Sony HXR-NX800 and Sony PXW-Z200. Basically, the 2 cameras are the identical, each being constructed round Sony’s 1.0-inch-type Exmor RS CMOS stacked sensor and a Sony BIONZ XR processor, and each able to as much as 4K60p/50p footage oversampled from 5K, 120p in 4K with hybrid AF, or as much as 240p in Full HD.
The camcorders characteristic a 20x optical Sony G f/2.8-4.5 Energy Zoom lens, which covers a full-frame equivalence of 24mm to 480mm, this may be boosted even additional with digital zoom, which might attain 30x (720mm) zoom in 4K and as much as 40x (960mm) zoom in FHD utilizing Sony’s Clear Picture Zoom picture processing to clear up the image. The lens additionally has optical stabilization for steadier handheld footage, which might be mixed with Sony’s tried and examined Energetic Stabilisation for heavier motion, however on the penalty of a crop to the ultimate footage.
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The lens has in complete 14 totally different assignable buttons, in addition to rings for the main target, and zoom, and a dial for iris management. The HXR-NX800 and Sony PXW-Z200 additionally characteristic a built-in digital variable ND filter with 1/4 to 1/128 stops – this could both be deployed manually utilizing an extra dial on the lens, or you should use a brand new auto-ND characteristic which permits the digital camera to regulate the ND filter between stops which is helpful for filming in environments with altering mild sources or going from inside to exterior.
Each cameras sport a tiltable 0.39m dot OLED viewfinder, a folding 3.5in LCD monitor for recording at awkward angles, a detachable microphone holder, in addition to a built-in silent fan for limitless recording instances. The camcorders might be powered by Sony BP-U35/70/100 kind batteries.
The HXR-NX800 and PXW-Z200 are geared up with a plethora of ports together with HDMI Sort-A, USB Sort-C, LAN, and REMOTE terminals, in addition to twin SDXC/CFExpress Sort-A reminiscence card slots.
The PXW-Z200 has a number of extra port choices with SDI (12G, 6G, 3G [Level A/B], HD) enter/output, and TC enter/output.
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Each cameras are compact and comparatively mild, coming in at just below 2kg (round 4.5 lbs), with the PXW-Z200 naturally being the marginally heavier of the 2.
This new pair of camcorders takes benefit of the most recent developments we’ve got seen just lately from its Alpha, ZV, and FX digital camera traces together with AI-powered autofocus and auto-framing tips. Autoframing permits the digital camera to crop on a topic and preserve them within the heart of the body as they transfer round – I’ve used this on the Sony ZV-E1 and it is extremely cool and really efficient. Autofocus additionally has Sony’s newest algorithms that use predictive skeletal monitoring, which has been proven to supply some extremely sticky autofocus in Sony’s different cameras.
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If you wish to color-match footage with different Sony cameras, then the HXR-NX800 and PXW-Z200 can report footage in S-Cinetone, ITU709, 709tone, HLG Dwell, HLG Delicate, and HLG Pure to match cameras within the Sony Alpha, ZV or cinema ranges.
The cameras additionally characteristic an evening shot perform which makes use of infrared mild to create B&W recordings even in complete darkness.
The camcorders also can make the most of Sony’s vary of recording codecs together with XAVC HS, XAVC S, and XAVC SI, with the PXW-Z200’s additionally gaining access to the XAVC (MXF) normal (however not till summer time 2025). Each cameras also can report proxy information for simpler switch for post-production which might be routinely uploaded to the cloud or FTP server – each cameras may also be suitable with Sony’s PDT-FP1 transportable information transmitter for importing on the go away from a gradual connection. For streaming, the cameras are able to streaming in RTMP/RTMPS or SRT by way of wIFi or USB tethering.
The brand new cameras shall be out there in September, with the HXR-NX800 costing $3,299 and the PXW-Z200 $3,999.
