Announced at NAB Show, Grass Valley’s LDX 180 camera can be used in sport, light entertainment and music productions, CTO Ian Fletcher tells TVBEurope.
The camera has been built on the company’s LDX 100 Series camera platform and includes a brand-new Grass Valley-developed imager and Creative Grading. The LDX 180 has been developed completely in-house by Grass Valley, says Fletcher, adding: “Our imaging team, who have developed sensors over many years, worked on this.”
The LDX 180 enables productions to blend shallow depth of field cinematic shots with wide tactical 2/3” perspectives. It also works with XCU and NativeIP to provide options ranging from SDI to SMPTE ST 2110.
The camera’s 10K resolution can be down-sampled to 4K and HDR. “Increasingly, a lot of the broadcasters are now more interested in 1080p HDR, because they can push it through their normal infrastructure,” adds Fletcher. “A lot of our systems are turning to HDR now, it’s the common thing people seem to want to do.”
The LDX 180 can sit in organisations’ existing Grass Valley ecosystems, with shaders, return video and Tally all integrated. “A lot of people who use shallow depth of field for parts of the storytelling are lashing together digital cinema cameras, and then they’ve got to get return video and Tally and all that other stuff,” explains Fletcher.
“Having something that just drops into your existing infrastructure and just works like any other camera is the main advantage.”
