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www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 6 - Issue 6 | June 2016

InStudio

SAM Technology Chosen
For EUROMEDIA Fleet

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AM's Kahuna, IQ Modular and
Sirius technology has been chosen
for EUROMEDIA's new fleet of three
hybrid 4K OB vans commissioned to
address the growing market for live
events broadcasting, including sports,
music and entertainment.
The new OB fleet, comprising one
large and two smaller vehicles, has
recently been used by broadcaster
Canal+ for a 4K HDR football
broadcasting trial between Olympique
Lyonnais and PSG in February. The
fleet will also be used for European
football championships, the Tour de
France and other sporting events later
this year.
EUROMEDIA turned to SAM for its
new OB vans due to the flexibility and
reliability of its products, as well as
the level of post-sales and technical
support
provided.
Consistency
across all of its operations was also
a consideration in the decision to

invest in SAM technology: EUROMEDIA
wanted to ensure that its operators
could switch seamlessly between OB
vans to ensure maximum efficiency.
The broadcast services provider
has invested in SAM's market-leading
Kahuna 9600 production switcher for
its multi-format capabilities. Enabled
by SAM's unique FormatFusion3
technology, Kahuna supports any
combination of SD, HD, 1080p (level
A & B) and 4K environments. Kahuna
also allows EUROMEDIA to avoid the
need to use valuable space within
the OB van for external conversion
equipment. EUROMEDIA has also
installed SAM's Sirius 800 routers with
advanced hybrid processing (AHP),
integrated with VSM controllers, in its
new OB vans. The Sirius 800 delivers
operational flexibility, redundancy
and provides processing capability
on every input and output. This latter
feature generates huge space, cabling,

EUROMEDIA selects SAM

cost and power savings - all critical
within an OB environment.
EUROMEDIA is an existing SAM
customer, having already invested
in its ICE CiaB and Morpheus playout
automation technology.
Gaël Tanguy, Technical Director
at EUROMEDIA said, "Our aim is to
remain the premium technical service
provider in the broadcast live events

space, whether we're talking about
the summer athletics, a major football
tournament or a live music event.
We've worked closely with SAM
to help us reach this goal, and the
support that they provide us on a
day-to-day basis is critical. SAM offers
the best solutions to help us build our
operations to cope with whatever our
customers require."

Debut For Two Prime Lenses
From Leica Summicron-C
Cine Range

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W Sonderoptic, sister company to
Leica Camera, introduced two new
lenses in the Leica Summicron-C cine
lens family at NAB 2016.
These
highly
anticipated,
40mm T2.0 and the previously
unannounced
15mm
T2.0,
lenses bring the growing Leica
Summicron-C family of primes to 11
focal lengths.
Both lenses share the iconic Leica
"creamy sharpness" image quality
that sets Leica cine products
apart from other lenses with their
favourable, natural treatment
of skin tones without sacrificing
clarity and resolution. They also
maintain the compact, lightweight
and reliable build quality of the
other focal lengths. While all lenses

have matched focus and iris ring
locations and 95mm front diameter,
the 15mm lens is slightly longer like
the 135mm.

"With the recent popularity of the
Leica Summicron-C lenses in the
high-end feature film, television and
commercial markets, we received
many requests to add more focal
lengths," said Gerhard Baier, Managing
Director of CW Sonderoptic. "Highest
on the wish lists were the classic 40

mm and a very wide lens. The decision
to go with a 15mm is a nod toward one
of Leica's most iconic and popular still
photography lenses, the 15mm R lens.
Although this is a brand new optical
design, we are constantly inspired by
Leica's timeless image quality when
designing for motion pictures."
The Leica Summicron-C 40mm
lens is expected to ship in June,
with the Summicron-C 15mm to
follow in October.
All Leica Cine lenses are currently
available from CW's worldwide
network of resellers.
Recent productions that chose
Leica Summicron-C lenses include:
Snowden from Oliver Stone,
Sundance standout Equity, HBO's
Togetherness and The Young Pope,
as well as Mr. Robot on USA and
Criminal Minds on CBS.
The new Leica Summicron-C
40mm and 15mm cine lenses
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