The Sony HDW-F900 is a ground-breaking digital HDCAM camcorder that extends Sony’s unique digital heritage and its unrivalled experience in the art of imaging. Because of its outstanding picture quality and operational flexibility, this camera offers an important alternative to 24-frame film origination for major television productions and commercials. The HDW-F900 is already accepted as the Digital Movie Camera, ideal for exploring new horizons in digital movie-making. What distinguishes the HDW-F900 from any contemporary camcorder is its ability to capture 24 progressive frames per second – just like a conventional film camera. Moving pictures are digitally imaged in accordance with the CIF (Common Image Format) standard, which specifies a sampling structure of 1920 active pixels horizontally by 1080 active pixels vertically. What makes the HDW-F900 so universally exciting is that, as well as recording at 24P, it is switchable to record at 25P, 30P progressive scan, and also at either 50 or 60 Hz interlaced. that extends Sony’s unique digital heritage and its unrivalled experience in the art of imaging. This camera is ideal for any HD camera crew worldwide and is universally accepted as the HD standard. Anyone throwing around the words HD, High Def or High Definition should own the HDW-F900. If a crewing company does not know the camera models or formats, find a company that does. Almost all video production is going HD. When you think of a camera crew you should be thinking of an HD camera crew. From LA, Las Vegas to Denver and Eastward all video is heading to HD. Why not make it HDCAM.