Sony Electronics Announces New Firmware Roadmap for the BURANO Digital Cinema Camera

Sony Contacts: Tanya Lyon, Sony Cine Marketing. Tanya.Lyon@sony.com

LOS ANGELES, June 3, 2024 - Sony Electronics Inc. is pleased to announce the next two firmware updates for the BURANO, the newest addition to the CineAlta family of digital cinema cameras. The firmware updates, BURANO Version 1.1 and Version 2.0, are planned to be released over the next year and will include additional recording formats, new de-squeeze options and monitoring updates as well as other features and requests from the cinematic community. 

BURANO Version 1.1

Planned for release in late June 2024, BURANO Version 1.1 includes new features for live event production and the addition of 1.5x de-squeeze display for anamorphic lenses. Version 1.1 will add S700 Protocol over Ethernetⁱ which enables remote control of a BURANO using an RCP (remote control panel). Controllable settings include exposure, white balance, paint, and others (depending on the RCP model). ​ Version 1.1 also enables support for Multi Matrix Area Indication. This feature allows users to adjust targeted colors during Multi Matrix operation. 

In addition, BURANO Version 1.1 also allows support for Sony’s Monitor & Control appⁱⁱ version 2.0.0 which enables in demand features such as Multi-Camera Monitoring function for iPadOS which allows feeds to up to four cameras, precise exposure monitoring including such as waveform, histogram, false color and zebra. Some other features include intuitive focus control, and frequently used functions' control as similar operation as Sony's CineAlta cameras using a mobile device, such as frame rate, ND filter, sensitivity, look, shutter speed, white balance. Sony’s Monitor & Control app is free and available for iOS and Android devicesⁱⁱⁱ.

BURANO Version 2.0

Planned to be released in March 2025 or later, BURANO Version 2.0 offers many new features and improvements requested from the user community, including new recording formats, new 1.8x de-squeeze, and monitoring improvements.

Version 2.0 will include new recording formats including a new 3.8K Full Frame crop that leverages nearly the entire sensor and can shoot up to 120 fps. This new recording mode allows the filmmaker to prioritize faster sensor performance depending on the needs of their application. ​ Other new recording formats include the addition of 24.00 fps to X-OCN 16:9 imager modes and the following:

BURANO Version 2.0 will also add 1.8x de-squeeze setting as well as additional high frame rate (S & Q) modes including 66, 72, 75, 88, 90, 96, 110 fps. 

Version 2.0 also offers monitoring improvements, including standardized SDI video output for monitoring across X-OCN and XAVC and an improved on-screen display which places camera status information outside of the image. Version 2.0 will also include View Finder Gamma Display Assist while using S-Log3 for monitoring. 

BURANO Version 2.0 also includes additional exposure tools (High/Low Key) derived from the flagship VENICE camera system. Version 2.0 will also expand white balance memory presets from 3 to 8 and support Active/High Image Stabilization in Full-Frame 6K and Super 35 1.9K 16:9 imager modes. 

Finally, Version 2.0 will add breathing compensation and image stabilization metadata in X-OCN. ​ 

Availability

The new BURANO Version 1.1 will be available in late June 2024. BURANO Version 2.0 will be available in March 2025 or later. Filmmakers can easily download the update directly to their camera using a Mac or PC.

About Cinema Line

Cinema Line is a series of cameras that have a cinematic look – cultivated from Sony’s long experience in digital cinema production – plus enhanced operability and reliability that respond to the wide variety of creators’ high demands. 

 Cinema Line includes Sony’s flagship digital cinema camera VENICE, which has been used on over 500 feature films, television and commercials, including three of the top grossing feature films in the world in 2022. The Cinema Line includes the professional camera FX9, which is popular for documentary and drama production and the FX6, for grab and shoot action and content creation. With the addition of the FX3 and FX30, the most compact cameras in the series, Sony offers a true line up of versatile creative tools for all types of visual storytellers.

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 About Sony Electronics Inc. ​ 

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Notes:

ⁱ S700 Protocol over Ethernet is a protocol that realizes S700P over TCP/IP

ⁱⁱ https://creatorscloud.sony.net/catalog/en-us/monitorcontrol/index.htm

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