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    To kick off this years NAB convention, Sony formally unveiled the F65 CineAlta, a camera that can record 16-bit 4K (4096 x 2160) raw imagery. With an 8K 20 mega-pixel CMOS imager, the camera supports a color gamut - the set of colors found within an image at a given time - that is significantly wider than 35mm film and which approaches the entire gamut of visible light. Currently, most digital cinematography cameras shoot at 2K resolution. 4K, four thousand pixels of horizontal resolution, can provided four times more information. The F65 makes “end-to-end” delivery of a film - acquisition/post/distribution - possible. Significantly, the camera was developed from the ground up to support the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Image Interchange Framework and the Academy Colour Encoding Specification, IIF-ACES. Director of Photography and American Society of Cinematographers’ Technology Committee chairman Curtis Clark directed a short film shot with the F65. Clark says the F65 has the potential to exceed the capabilities of 35mm film and approach those of 65mm negative. The F65 will be available this fall.

    To kick off this years NAB convention, Sony formally unveiled the F65 CineAlta, a camera that can record 16-bit 4K (4096 x 2160) raw imagery. With an 8K 20 mega-pixel CMOS imager, the camera supports a color gamut - the set of colors found within an image at a given time - that is significantly wider than 35mm film and which approaches the entire gamut of visible light.

    Currently, most digital cinematography cameras shoot at 2K resolution. 4K, four thousand pixels of horizontal resolution, can provided four times more information. The F65 makes “end-to-end” delivery of a film - acquisition/post/distribution - possible.

    Significantly, the camera was developed from the ground up to support the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Image Interchange Framework and the Academy Colour Encoding Specification, IIF-ACES.

    Director of Photography and American Society of Cinematographers’ Technology Committee chairman Curtis Clark directed a short film shot with the F65. Clark says the F65 has the potential to exceed the capabilities of 35mm film and approach those of 65mm negative.

    The F65 will be available this fall.