WETA equips studio cameras for ‘NewsHour’ with Fujinon lenses
Dec 12, 2008 8:38 AM
WETA is shooting “NewsHour with Jim Lehrer” with Sony HDC-1000L cameras equipped with Fujinon HA27X6.5 ESM premium HD studio lenses.
WETA, the public broadcasting station in Washington, D.C., has installed six Fujinon HA27X6.5 ESM premium HD studio lenses mounted to Sony HDC-1000L cameras for production of the PBS signature nightly news program, “NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.”
To make the HD broadcast of “NewsHour” possible, WETA worked with Newington, VA-based systems integrator Communications Engineering (CEI) to build a new state-of-the-art control room and HD-optimized set.
The construction, designed to enable the HD broadcast of “NewsHour,” is serving other areas of WETA programming as well. The facility housed HD coverage of the Democrat and Republican national political conventions, as well as that of the 2008 presidential election.
The Fujinon lenses represented a fiscally responsible choice for HD lenses, said Chris Lane, WETA VP of technology and engineering. According to Lane, his counterparts at other PBS stations around the country receiving “NewsHour” expressed their satisfaction with the “pristine” images of the lenses deliver.
This eBook provides both new and veteran shooters an in-depth understanding of the technology that lies between the camera lens and the recording medium and how to maximize a camera's performance.
File-based technologies have replaced video tape methods for a majority of production and broadcast operations. The worlds of AV and IT are coalescing to create new methods and workflows for media
Video compression, editing and displays is an in-depth tutorial on MPEG compression technology, editing MPEG content and evaluating color video monitors written by long-time video expert, trainer and writer Steve Mullen, Ph. D.
2012 will be the year of mobile DTV. That’s the view of Erik Moreno, who along with Salil Dalvi, senior VP for Mobile Platform Development at NBC Universal, is co-general manager of the Mobile Content Venture.
Hear snippets of podcast interviews done throughout 2011 with Pat McDonough of The Nielsen Company, Glen Friedman of Ideas & Solutions!, Danny Wilson of Pixelmetrix and Greg Herman of Watch TV. Pictured is Danny Wilson, Pixelmetrix.
