Mass
- Approx. 2.4 kg (5 lb 4 oz) (body)
- Approx. 2.8 kg (6 lb 2 oz) (with lens hood, large eye cup, BP-U30 battery, one SxS PRO memory card)
Dimensions (W x H x D)
- 178 x 176 x 311.5 mm (7 1/8 x 7 x 12 3/8 inches) without projection
Power requirements
Power consumption
- Approx. 13 W (while recording, with color LCD OFF, 1920 x 1080/59.94i mode)
Operating temperature
- 0 to +40 °C (+32 to +104°F)
Storage temperature
- -20 to +60°C (-4 to +140°F)
Continuous operating time
- Approx. four hours with BP-U60 battery
- Approx. two hours with BP-U30 battery
Recording format
- Video
- MPEG-2 Long GOP[br}HQ mode: VBR, maximum bit rate: 35 Mb/s, MPEG-2 MP@HL
- SP mode: CBR, 25 Mb/s, MPEG-2 MP@H14
- Audio
- Linear PCM (2ch, 16-bit, 48-kHz)
Recording frame rate
- NTSC setting
- HQ mode: 1920 x 1080/59.94i, 29.97P, 23.98P, 1280 x 720/59.94P, 29.97P, 23.98P
- SP mode: 1440 x 1080/59.94i
- PAL setting
- HQ mode: 1920 x 1080/50i, 25P, 1280 x 720/50P, 25P
- SP mode: 1440 x 1080/50i
Recording/Playback time
- HQ mode
- Approx. 50 min. with SBP-16 (16 GB) memory card, Approx. 25 min. with SBP-8 (8 GB) memory card
- SP mode
- Approx. 70 min. with SBP-16 (16 GB) memory card, Approx. 35 min. with SBP-8 (8 GB) memory card
Lens
- Zoom ratio - 14x (optical), servo/manual selectable
- Focal length - f = 5.8 to 81.2 mm (equivalent to 31.4 to 439 mm on 35 mm lens)
- Iris - F1.9 to F16 and Close, servo/manual selectable
- Maximum relative aperture - 1:1.9
- Focus - AF/MF/Full MF selectable 800 mm to infinity (MACRO OFF), 50 mm to infinity (MACRO ON, Wide), 735 to infinity (MACRO ON, Tele)
- Image stabilizer - ON/OFF selectable, shift lens
- Image stabilizer - M77 mm, pitch 0.75 mm (on lens)
Camera
- Pickup device -3-chip 1/2-inch type Exmor CMOS
- Effective picture elements - 1920 (H) x 1080 (V)
- Optical system - F1.6 prism system
- Built-in filters - ND filter / OFF: Clear, 1: 1/8ND, 2: 1/64ND
- Sensitivity (2000 lx, 89.9% reflectance) - F10 (typical) (1920 x 1080/59.94i mode)
- Minimum illumination - 0.14 lx (typical) (1920 x 1080/59.94i mode, F1.9, +18 dB gain, with 64-frame accumulation)
- S/N ratio - 54 dB (Y) (typical)
- Horizontal resolution - 1000 TV lines or more (1920 x 1080i mode)
- Shutter speed - 1/33 to 1/2000 sec.
- Shutter angle - 180, 90, 45, 22.5, 11.25 degrees
- Slow Shutter (SLS) - 2-, 3-, 4-, 5-, 6-, 7-, 8-, 16-, 32-, and 64-frame accumulation
- Slow & Quick Motion function - 720P Selectable from 1 to 60 fps as recording frame rate / 1080P Selectable from 1 to 30 fps as recording frame rate
Audio performance
- Sampling frequency - 48 kHz
- Quantization - 16 bits
- Headroom - 20dB
- Frequency response - 20 Hz to 20 kHz, +3 dB/-3 dB
- Dynamic range - 90 dB (typical)
- Distortion - Less than 0.1% (with input level of -40 dBu)
Signal inputs/outputs
- Audio input - XLR-3-pin (female) (x 2), line/mic/mic +48 V selectable / Mic: -8 dBu to -65 dBu (reference level) / Line: +4 dBu
- A/V output - AV multi (x 1) / Audio: -10 dBu (reference level), 47 kohms / Analogue composite: 1.0 Vp-p, 75 ohms unbalanced / S-Video: Y: 1.0 Vp-p, 75 ohms unbalanced, sync negative
- Component output - Mini D (x 1), Y: 1.0 Vp-p, 75 ohms, Pb/Pr: 0.7 Vp-p, 75 ohms
- SDI output - BNC (x 1), HD-SDI/SD-SDI selectable
- i.LINK input/output - IEEE1394, 4-pin (x 1), HDV stream input/output, S400
- USB - Mini-B (x 1), USB 2.0 High-speed
- Headphone output - Stereo mini-jack (x 1), 16 ohms, 30 mW
- Speaker output - Monaural, 300 mW
- DC input - DC jack
- Battery input - 5-pin
- Built-in LCD monitor - 3.5-inch* type colour LCD monitor, approx. 921000 effective pixels, 640 (H) x 3 (RGB) x 480 (V), 16:9, hybrid type
- Viewfinder - 0.54-inch* type colour LCD, 1120 (H) x 225 (V), 16:9
Built-in microphone
- Capsule type - Omni-directional stereo electret condenser microphone
- Frequency response - 50 to 15000 Hz
Media slot
- Type - ExpressCard/34 (x 2)
- Interface - ExpressCard compatible