• Panasonic has released its new mini camera or  POV camera as they are calling it.

  • First reports are very positive.

The combined unit is sold seperately, although the camera can only be used with the control record unit.

  • It comes with a detachable 3metre or 20 metre cable.
  • The camera connects to a stand alone CCU/Solid state recorder which can record I/P to 24MB/s using the AVC HD codec
  • The control unit will also output HD SDI video which could be fed to your Vision mixer if your in Studio or on an OB.
  • Alternatively you can feed the output to another solid state device to record at a higher bit rate ie flash nano, Flash XDR or AKA Ki pro etc.

(This would be on the SDI out)

More info here on camera head

http://catalog2.panasonic.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ModelDetail?storeId=11201&catalogId=13051&itemId=370997&surfModel=AG-HCK10G

And here is a link for the recorder

http://catalog2.panasonic.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ModelDetail?storeId=11201&catalogId=13051&itemId=370993&surfModel=AG-HMR10


More updates and pix on this, as I get them Including some on-line footage available on line very soon.