
First Announced last fall, Sony hits its ship date with the Full Frame VENICE, no definite article needed.
After a week full of big camera announcements as Panavision revises the DXL2 and ARRI releases the Alexa LF, Sony has announced that it is officially shipping its full frame cinema offering, VENICE. While the marquee feature of VENICE is the Full Frame sensor, it originally was going to ship without FF support. By November, Sony changed its mind and is now going to offer FF support from the start, which means if you get your hands on VENICE today, the camera will be full frame capable.
With a 36mm x 24mm sensor, VENICE is also perfectly designed to work with traditional still photo lenses, which—conveniently—Sony has been making a lot of in its still photo division. VENICE has a swappable lens mount with a minimum focal distance of 18mm, which should make it easier to use still photo lenses if you desire. It will ship by default with a PL mount to make traditional cinematographers happy, though it will limit the number of full frame lens options available.
While the camera ships now, some features, like High Frame Rate, won't be available until Firmware 2.0 ships this summer. If nothing else, it's always nice when a vendor announces a ship date and actually hits it. It's especially exciting when that ship date is "February" and they start shipping February 2nd.
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Tech Specs
- Full Frame 36x24mm sensor
- 15 stops of dynamic range, 6 over/9 under
- Dual Base ISO mode, with High Base ISO 2500
- 10bit XAVC, with 16bit X-OCN RAW external
- 24volt power
- Lemo plug for accessories
- 4096x2160 to 60fps
- 6038x4032 Full Frame to 24fps, 4096x3432 Anamorphic available by license
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Who do you think will be the first director to use the new camera?
February 6, 2018 at 9:30AM
It will be nice to see a different look on high end projects. Not that the others are lackluster, but variety is the spice of life.
February 7, 2018 at 6:48AM