Sony Showcases High Dynamic Range

As the industry pursues resolutions of 4K and beyond, the impact of dynamic range on the overall image quality is often understated, said Olivier Bovis, Head of Sales, Sony Professional, Sony Europe at Sony. High Dynamic Range is what will contribute greatly towards more immersive images and superior creative expression, and bring us into the future of content creation.

Sonys High Dynamic Range consists of a combination of high brightness, high contrast, wide colour gamut, and high resolution requires video from a top-quality camera, together with a master monitor capable of faithfully reproducing High Dynamic Range images.

Sonys and CineAlta cameras deliver a colour gamut wider than that of print film, and a wide dynamic range (14 stops) that faithfully captures light and dark areas with minimal white clip and black crush. Moreover, now for the first time, there is also a monitor available that can fully do justice to the outstanding capabilities of such cameras Sonys new 4K OLED master monitor which was launched earlier this year in February. It uses a unique wide colour gamut OLED panel and an original colour management system to deliver truly high brightness, high contrast, and a wide colour gamut, all at 4K (4096 2160) resolution.

The combination of such technologies and top-quality equipment now makes it possible to see just how amazing High Dynamic Range images really are, delivering realistic experiences previously available only to the naked eye: blazing fires, stars in the night sky, sunlight dancing on water and much more. At NAB, visitors to the Sony booth will get to experience such immersive and stunning High Dynamic Range contents for themselves.

High Dynamic Range imaging opens the way to highlights that go beyond the limits of broadcast standards, while significantly expanding the colour gamut. Bright areas that are typically saturated in conventional Standard Dynamic Range now retain their true colours in High Dynamic Range, giving video producers access to a broader creative range and new levels of realism and expressiveness. Furthermore, High Dynamic Range reproduction can also be applied to existing F65 and PMW-F55 raw image assets affording these images a new lease of life, and adding new value.

Understanding the need for co-operation to deliver the most efficient High Dynamic Range workflow, Sony will present High Dynamic Range mastering with key partner FilmLight. FilmLight s high-performance Baselight colour grading system provides the ideal environment for High Dynamic Range grading and is shown alongside the BVM-X300 master monitor.

These cameras offer 14-stops of latitude and a colour gamut exceeding that of print film. They comply with Sonys S-Gamut colour-space standard, and can capture and store image data in 16-bit linear raw format. Consequently, High Dynamic Range content mastering processes are able to make full use of these cameras capabilities. Existing raw-format assets can also be processed for High Dynamic Range, giving them new life and bringing added value.

BVM-X300 4K OLED Master Monitor

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