Cameras: News and Updates

WEISSCAM's brand new T-PLUG connector extends the overall flexibility of the T-CAM digital film camera for total connectivity to external devices. The T-PLUG is an extremely slim and compact breakout connector which provides a high performance interface to the T-CAM for RAW and HD video formats, camera commands and power.

The high flexibility and ease of use of the T-CAM is provided by the SOHA platform core. WEISSCAM's design team invented the T-PLUG to empower users to extend this flexibility to the outside world.

WEISSCAM DoP and CEO, Stefan Weiss comments: "When we compared all multicore connector solutions currently available in the market, it was clear, we needed to develop our own connector for the T-CAM to maintain our design constraints of its ultra-compact form factor and user friendly pure design, while offering a high performance interface."

To offer full connectivity to any other device, the T-PLUG provides:

• Multiple general purpose pins for sync signals and camera commands
• 6 x video out pins, switchable between HD-SDI and 3G-SDI, transferring HD 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 or RAW uncompressed. The number of outputs is selectable between one and six, depending on the recording devices inputs
• 2 x Power out pins for supplying accessories

The camera's T-PLUG allows creating cables of different length and configuration. Industry standard connectors at their end are used to connect external devices like monitors, recorders, viewfinders, etc. and make working with additional equipment at the film set easy and straightforward.

Resources:

www.weisscam.com

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