NEW YORK — Hitachi Kokusai is returning to the NAB New York conference and expo with a streamlined adaptation of its NAB Show booth. It shines a light on its latest innovations for professional content acquisition.
The demonstration puts the focus on two 4K UHD camera systems built to serve different live production needs, whether used separately for specific applications or blended to support grander visions.
Hitachi Kokusai’s SK-UHD7000 live production camera system incorporates three 2/3-inch CMOS image sensors with native 4K resolution to enable the capture of 3840×2160 UHD video.
The sensors’ global shutter technology minimizes flickering and banding that could otherwise occur when capturing video in TV production sets with LED lighting and large LED displays, the company says.
“Hitachi Kokusai built the SK-UHD7000 to ensure extraordinary sensitivity and consistent results for 4K productions across diverse scenarios,” the company says. For example, its Sensitivity of F11 at 59.94 frames enables high-quality acquisition in low lighting conditions, while a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of 62 dB provides ultra-quiet images. “These qualities and all other performance benefits carry over to the SK-UHD7000-S2, a nearly identical model built for customers that want high-quality 1080p productions today and cost-effective path to 4K/UHD in the future. The latter is achieved through a license upgrade option that provides immediate entry to the 4K/UHD production world.”
Introduced at the 2024 NAB Show, Hitachi Kokusai’s DK-H700 4K box camera sits at the opposite end of the design scale, providing customers with a compact POV solution that can reliably support very focused applications in professional AV and government applications.
“It is also a very adaptable solution for high-end broadcast and venue environments, and blends effortlessly with the SK-UHD7000 to produce different viewpoints with identical quality, aided through the presence of the same UHD sensor with the DK-H700, SK-UHD7000, and SK-UHD7000-S2,” Hitachi says.
The DK-H700 is a multi-format solution that complies with ITU-R.BT-2020 wide color gamut specs and operates within REC BT2100 High Dynamic Range standards. These qualities allow content creators to produce independent programs in a dual workflow configuration for both HDTV and/or UHD SDI output formats.
Hitachi Kokusai exhibits at Booth 837.
