The FX5 has been added to Sony’s Cinema Line series, and it is the first in the series that supports Open Gate shooting and in-camera recording in X-OCN, Sony’s proprietary RAW format.
The FX5 is equipped with a newly developed fully stacked CMOS image sensor and further enhances sensitivity performance through more than 15 stops of dynamic range, a Dual Gain Shooting mode, and three base ISO settings.
Indeed, the FX5 is capable of shooting in 5K at up to 60 frames per second, in 4K up to 120 frames per second and in full high definition (FHD) up to 240 frames per second. These features, said Sony, bring together the Cinema Line look and operability designed to meet the needs of production environments in a compact, highly portable body.
Claudio Miranda, ASC, cinematographer of films including Top Gun: Maverick and F1 The Movie, conducted a test shoot with FX5: “I felt that FX5 is a camera that combines high quality image expression and mobility in a compact body, enabling people to use it across a wide range of shooting environments.”
Gareth Edwards, the director of The Creator, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Jurassic World: Rebirth, also had an opportunity to shoot with the new camera for a project that spanned across Cambodia, Thailand, and Nepal. “Guerrilla filmmaking just went to the next level, the FX5 is the run-and-gun cinema camera to beat,” he said.
The FX5 is equipped with a full-frame fully stacked Exmor RS CMOS image sensor and the latest high-speed BIONZ XR2 image processing engine, which includes a dedicated AI processing unit.
When shooting in S-Log3, the camera achieves more than stops of dynamic range. The broad latitude and low-noise performance enable roll-off from highlights to shadows and natural texture reproduction, even in high-contrast scenes.
For the first time in the FX series, the camera supports 3:2 full-pixel readout across the entire image sensor area, or Open Gate shooting, as well as a wide variety of image scan modes including 17:9, 16:9, and Super 35mm.
This allows flexible angle-of-view selection according to creative intent and delivery format. In addition, support for in-camera recording in X-OCN, Sony’s proprietary 16-bit scene-linear RAW format, enables high-quality recording without the need for an external recorder.
