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Sony FX30 compact Cinema Line gateway camera
Sony’s Cinema Line now consists of six cameras – Venice, FX9, FR7, FX6, FX3 and FX30. What makes the FX30 unique is that, as well as being by far the cheapest (at £2100 including VAT, it’s around a thirtieth of the cost of the Venice and less than 2/3 of the FX3), it is the only Cinema Line camera with an S35 sensor (or, as Sony prefers to call it, APS-C).
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But is it really a cinema camera?
As we all know, you can shoot a feature on anything – perfectly respectable movies have been shot on iPhones, a clockwork Bolex, MiniDV and toy cameras. But if we think of a cinema camera as one that traditional feature crew clusters around – no, it’s certainly not one of those and ‘cinema’ in this context is simply a marketing term. But the FX30 does offer most of the same codecs in the range up to the FX9, including S-Cinetone and Cine EI. It will record, internally, 4k 4.2.2 10bit (Long GOP or All Intra) up to 60fps. It also offers 16-bit RAW via HDMI at 4672 x 2628.
As we all know, you can shoot a feature on anything – perfectly respectable movies have been shot on iPhones, a clockwork Bolex, MiniDV and toy cameras. But if we think of a cinema camera as one that traditional feature crew clusters around – no, it’s certainly not one of those and ‘cinema’ in this context is simply a marketing term. But the FX30 does offer most of the same codecs in the range up to the FX9, including S-Cinetone and Cine EI. It will record, internally, 4k 4.2.2 10bit (Long GOP or All Intra) up to 60fps. It also offers 16-bit RAW via HDMI at 4672 x 2628.
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Professionally maintained & shoot-ready
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Darjeeling — pickup & delivery on request
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