“VENICE” – it’s a word that captures the very essence of cinematic. Everybody knows of Venice, and knows that Venice is one of the most beautiful, most cinematic places in the world. The face of Italy, which is itself the beautiful face of Europe, whereas London is more like the arsehole. Well done Sony, for your VENICE cinema camera branding. What next? Sony BERLIN? Sony NEW YORK? Sony Milton Keynes? No, the Sony marketing idiots have decided on the name “BURANO” which sounds like something Vic Reeves used to say at the end of Shooting Stars. “BURANO” is a small island in Venice, and it carries the weight of expectations for the sister camera to VENICE. Your Sony BURRITO can be had for the bargain price of just $25,000. Allegedly this new camera is A) very small, but not as small as a Sony a1 and B) has the same sensor as a Sony a1 but not the full frame 4K 120p. Instead the BURRITO has to crop to 2x, to achieve those lovely high frame rates. The BURRITO follows the most recent trend of making cinema cameras smaller, but not too small that you look like an amateur on set. The BURRITO has a lot of nice things about it, including Sony’s rarely seen unicorn, that FS5 miracle of the electronically variable ND filter, as well as a new 16bit codec that I don’t understand, and the same 10bit 422 520Mbit HEVC codec of the Sony a1. But...
Published By: EOSHD.com blog - Thursday, 28 September, 2023