White Paper 034 Addendum 56: Tests and Settings on a Sony HDC1500R

Alan Roberts

Abstract

Data for this section is taken from parts of the handbook and examination of a production model (serial number AA44623E) of the Ikegami HDK-79. It is a conventional system camera, with separate control unit (Triax or fibre connected) and viewfinder. Variants of the camera exist, operating at 50Hz or 59.94Hz, 1080i or 720p. The unit under test had 3 ⅔" CCD sensors of 1920x1080 pixel dimensions, and operated at 1080/50 interlaced. The choice of scanning system is a factory option. Output from the CCU is via HDSDI, and SDI for down-converted for SDTV, however it can be operated from 12 volts as a stand-alone camera.

The camera head weighs about 4.5kg and has a standard B4 lens mount with F/1.4 optical block, and consumes about 28 watts at 12 volts. The specification claims sensitivity of F/10 for 1080i/59.94, presumably about F/11 for the 50Hz variant, which is normal for this image size and resolution. It appears to be very similar to other full-resolution system cameras in the broadcast range.

It has two conventional filter wheel with neutrals and colour correction filters.

There are internal menus for setting the performance. Although the camera can operate without the CCU, the menus are available only via the CCU.

For the test procedures a Canon HJ17ex7.6B lens was used.

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