PS-Cam X35 Brings New Creative Possibilities

A Munich-based manufacturer, blazing the trails in camera manufacturing, will introduce the revolutionary new PS- Cam X35 at IBC this year.
By carefully listening to feedback from the production community P+S Technik found out that in the transition to digital a barrier occurred that limits the possibilities of the visual language: Digital Cinematography Cameras do not support fast frame rates and crisp image quality for the flexible use of standard, slow and fast frame rates, so far. Usually the use of special frame rates, especially their flexible daily use, is out of the budgets of most productions.
The PS-Cam X35 is the first film-style Digital Cinematography Camera made for the daily creative use of various kinds of special speed and motion effects: slow motion; fast motion; ramped motion; and time lapse motion.
With its unique set of features making motion effects easy to produce, it's a combination of a sound and motion effects camera providing additional frame rates all of the way up to 450 fps - a 2 in 1 camera. So, firstly, the PS-Cam X35 is a proper all-purpose sync sound camera with a 35mm-sized CMOS imager and a global shutter. Secondly, it’s also an exciting alternative for crews and producers who want to make the leap from film to digital as seamlessly as possible while having motion effects capability with their main camera package at their fingertips. Thus, it’s an all-purpose motion effects camera with daily workhorse capability due to the following unique combination of features: 2 in 1 sync sound and high speed camera; 1-450fps; Perfect tool for all kinds of motion effects (slow motion, fast motion, ramped motion and time lapse motion); Global Shutter for enhanced motion capture capability; 640 ASA base sensitivity; and 11 T-stops latitude.
With the PS-Cam X35 the production’s DoP can provide the director with motion effects footage without the additional costs of renting a separate high-speed camera package and the attendant technician required to use the camera. This opens a whole universe of visual motion effects for flexible and emotional story telling. Using motion effects techniques as artistic devices allow steering the audience’s dramaturgical perception. Different speed rates create different emotions. E.g. at around 300fps to 450fps every human action appears smooth and astounding e.g. in sports, documentary, wildlife and feature. So the PS-Cam X35’s range of motion effects gives narrative filmmakers the ability to interact with speed rates and the freedom to tell the nuances of a story with the confidence that all of their ideas are being captured.
P+S Technik Cinema will be Screening "Inspirational Tools for Exceptional Pictures" at IBC on 10 September 2011, 3:30pm - 5:00pm, on the IBC Big Screen, Booth 11.E28.
(BMcN)