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18.1 It’s not ENG!
Although HD cameras tend to look a little like the earlier generation of ENG (Electronic News Gathering) cameras, they are very different and have to be treated accordingly. The Sony HDW F900 is virtually the same size as, and has all the switches in the same place as, the generation of Digi Beta cameras that preceded it, namely the DVW 790. The HDW F900 has even been described as a Digi Beta on steroids, a not totally unfair comparison.
With any HD camera we are dealing with a camera capable of recording an image of massively greater resolution. Curiously the NTSC system delivers almost exactly the same data rate per second as the PAL system. This is a result of the limiting transmission bandwidth available to ...
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