Put cinema bodies into live multicam
Large-sensor bodies bring the look. Historically they also brought a bespoke integration project every time they were put on a multicam show.
- Persona
- Rental, specialty
- Products
- RCP-J, RIO, CI0, VP4
- Lens
- Broadcast and cine
- Docs
- Model-level pages
A bespoke integration project, every time
Putting a single-sensor cine camera on a multicam show used to mean starting from nothing: custom lens control, no shared vocabulary with the broadcast cameras, and a rehearsal day spent on setup instead of on the show.
Manufacturer-side gaps are the norm. Canon CineServo focus passes through the mount while the connector only handles the motor block. Fujinon HZK25-1000 gates the Sony digital protocol behind internal and external DIP switches.
CINEMA BODIES IN LIVE PRODUCTION — FIELD PHOTOGRAPHY
CINEMA BODIES IN LIVE PRODUCTION — TOPOLOGY DIAGRAM
Camera and lens on the same panel
Iris, focus and zoom stay in the vision engineer's hands on bodies that were never wired for it, including broadcast lens protocols on cinema glass, with signal-level correction where the body's control surface is incomplete.
The integration work is published as model-level compatibility pages, failure modes included. The Fujinon HZK25-1000 case took 23 diagnostic messages and escalation to the manufacturer's own support before the DIP switches were identified.
What this actually buys you
Per-model work
Each body and lens combination is engineered and then documented.
Failure modes published
You find out before the shoot, not during it.
RCP-J for hand shading
The joystick and exposure block for operators who work by feel.
Live grading
Paris Fashion Week SS23 ran 12 cameras including Sony FX9, graded in real time from sunset to full moon.
“Another big plus is to allow the vision engineers (there were 3 of them) to speak a common language when they are facing different cameras.”
PARIS FASHION WEEK SS23 · 12 SONY FX9, 12 RIO, 12 RCP
The kit for this job
Does your show look like this?
Send the bodies and the glass, including the lens mounts. You will get an answer from an engineer, including the parts we cannot do.