10: Big Memory, Small Head
Sony’s 21st Century Erector Set—the SRW-9000.
In Cinematography Corner #8, “NX = Next Leap in Low-Cost Flash Recording”, I marveled at 11-plus hours of 1920×1080 AVCHD recorded to a Sony flash device the size of a MiniDV cassette.
Setting aside for the moment the image-capture anxiety of all-your-eggs-in-one-basket (it was never before possible to have 11 hours of footage slip from your pants pocket into the fold of a taxi seat), I continue to find this development jaw-dropping. I well remember lugging boxes of 16mm negative around the world. Eleven hours would have required 66 taped 400ft. cans in 14 cardboard boxes … a veritable trunk’s worth.
Last week I encountered another flash memory milestone, this time at a technical presentation at Abel Cine Tech in New York. Front and center was Sony’s SRW-9000, first seen in April at NAB. more
