CineAlta
series of digital movie cameras
CineAlta cameras are a series of professional digital movie cameras produced by Sony that replicate many of the same features of 35mm film motion picture cameras.
Concept
CineAlta is a brand name used by Sony to describe various products involved in content creation, production and exhibition process within digital cinema workflow. The first product in the CineAlta line was the Sony HDW-F900, which was also the first HD camera that could shoot at 24 frames per second in true progressive scan. Since then the CineAlta product line has come to include cameras, recorders, cinema servers and projectors. "CineAlta" is a portmanteau of Cine, from cinematography, and Alta, an Italian word for "high".
Logo
The original CineAlta logo was designed by Hiroki Oka, Chief Art Director of Sony CreativeWorks Corporation, based at the Sony Technology Center in Atsugi. The twinned ribbons represent the marriage of film and videotape, arranged in a way to deliberately evoke the infinity symbol, to symbolize the infinite possibilities. An updated version of the logo, designed by Tetsuro Sano, was used for the first time in branding for the F65.
Format
CineAlta cameras record onto HDCAM tapes, XDCAM Professional Discs, SRMemory, or SxS flash memory cards. They have the ability to shoot at various frame rates including 24fps and a resolution of up to 8K. The camera can be used with a Miranda DVC 802 converter.
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