
The Sony Burano 8K digital cinema camera has gained a real foothold in the industry since its release last year, combining key features from Sony's premium CineAlta line, FX series, and mirrorless Alpha cameras. Now a major firmware update, Burano Version 2.0, is expected in March 2025, with a host of requested features including new recording formats, exposure tools, stabilization options, and more.
The most unique of the new recording formats is a 3.8K Full Frame crop that uses almost the entire sensor and can go up to 120 fps in X-OCN or XAVC. This should prove popular with sports and wildlife videographers especially. Also new are two Super35 formats—a 4.3K 4:3 mode for anamorphic that goes up to 60 fps in X-OCN, and a 1.9K 16:9 mode that goes up to a stunning 240 fps in XAVC. Recording in 240 fps will disable the SDI and HDMI outputs, but you can still see your image in the EVF. An exact 24 fps is added to X-OCN 16:9 formats as well. Finally, there are new frame rates in the camera's S&Q mode—66, 72, 75, 88, 90, 96, and 110 fps.
Version 2.0 brings a bunch of fixes and additions on the monitoring side. The update adds 1.8x de-squeeze for anamorphic lenses, View Finder Gamma Display Assist for S-Log3, and fixes an error that sometimes put display information outside the image. Additionally, the firmware steps up the SDI video output across X-OCN and XAVC recording formats with a Monitor FHD mode that adds camera status info to SDI Out 1 and 2. Timecode and Clip Name metadata will be embedded in case you're using an external recorder or on-set grading tools.
Burano users can expect additional High/Low Key exposure tools brought over from the Venice, eight white balance memory presets instead of just three, breathing compensation and image stabilization metadata in X-OCN, and support for Active/High Image Stabilization (IBIS) in Full Frame 6K and Super 35 1.9K 16:9. Some final updates are aimed at studio and broadcast users, including external tally control via wired-LAN, ND adjustments from RCPs, 24V lens power output via the PL mount, and greater external FIZ control options for PL lenses.
All in all, these updates make the Burano an even more capable camera for a variety of professional production work. For more information about the Sony Burano, including additional features, specs, and highlights, be sure to check out the detailed product page. Or drop us a line below, and we'll do our best to answer all your comments and questions.
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