Overview

The PDW-510, Professional Disc Camcorder, has been designed with special consideration for heavy-duty field acquisition, providing excellent picture quality, operability and reliability inherited from Sony Betacam family of acquisition products. PDW-510 provides excellent picture quality, adapting 16:9/4:3 switchable Power HAD EX CCDs, the same camera block specification as MSW-900, MPEG IMX camcorder. It features DVCAM recording and one built-in optical filter wheels. Uses DVCAM compression recording at 25Mbps up to around 85 min. In addition to these impressive capabilities, PDW-510 also provides numerous innovative features that take full advantage of the benefit of nonlinear disc media. To create and record proxy video & audio as well as various type of metadata, in addition to high resolution video & audio, can provide a completely new style of field operation. It supports network interfaces, i-LINK and optional CBK-NC01, Ethernet card, which can provide a combination with external PC, Laptop NLE, logging software application or e-Support, a new workflow in news gathering and field production process. Optional CBK-FC01, 24P shooting card, provides film-look capture capability with 24-frame capture in CCD. The Sony XDCAM series of Optical Disc products will have 7 years "Powertrain" Warranty for its laser block. This "Powertrain" Warranty is unprecedented for Sony and demonstrates the confidence Sony has in its XDCAM products.

Highlights:

• 16:9/4:3 Switchable Power HAD EX x 3CCDs (1M pixel CCD)
• DVCAM recording with 1 optical filter wheel
• Compact & Lightweight Body
• 2.5-inch type Color LCD Screen
• Shock- and Dust-Resistant Disc Drive
• AV + IT Connection (SDI, Composite, 4x Analog Audio, 4x AES/EBU, i-LINK)
• Optional PCM-CIA card adaptor for Ethernet connection
• Thumbnail Search & Scene Selection Operation
• 40pin/Remote/i-LINK interefaces for CA-701/702/755, RM-B150/B750, WRR-855A/B, DSR-DU1 and WLL-CA50
• 7 years "Powertrain" Warranty for XDCAM laser block