White Paper 034 Addendum 16 (rev 1): Menu settings for Sony PDW530P XDCAM

Alan Roberts

Abstract

A brief assessment was made on a production sample of the PDW530P (no40099), a 625-line SDTV XDCAM cam-corder. It is very similar in formand function to other small camcorders, sharing many features andhaving a very similar menu set. For this assessment, no manual wasavailable.

The camera is switchable between interlace (50i) and progressive(25psf) modes and thus can generate a ""film look"" in the camera . Ithas specific ""film-look"" gamma curves that incorporate many of thecontrast handling features of earlier cameras, making it a great dealeasier to set up. The camera has 3 2/3"" ccds and records to a 23GB DVDrather than tape, using IMX data compression. It also records using thestandard DV coder, called DVCAM in this model.

The camera is significantly smaller and lighter than the familiar Betacamcorder and is useful mostly for portable, single-camera work. It hasmany internal menus for setting the performance, such that it can thenbe used without external controls. It is not well suited tomulti-camera operation, its only video output is via composite PAL oran encoded DV signal (IEEE1394, iLink).

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