Sony SNC-VB770: The camera E-Mount 4K which sees up to 0,004 lux. But it is for video surveillance

Sony unveiled a new unit that uses a full-frame 35mm sensor and offers bayonet E-Mount, managing to capture images up to levels of illumination equal to 0.004 lux, but is a product dedicated to video surveillance.

In recent times, video surveillance is becoming an increasingly profitable business for major brands of photography, as evidenced by the continuous innovations developed on the plate from the likes of Canon names, Panasonic and Sony.

The latter of Japanese brands has presented a new unit that uses a full-frame 35mm sensor and E-Mount bayonet offers: the new Sony SNC-VB770 has written on business cards. The most sensitive network camera 4K, managing to capture images up to levels of illumination equal to 0.004 lux.

It will hit the market in August and will be able to shoot movies at the highest resolution of 3,840 x 2,160 pixels with H.264 compression up to 30fps, but can take JPEG images at full resolution of the sensor, equal to 4,240 x 2,832 pixels, up to 2.5 fps, the so-called evidence-shot.

What good is a 4K video for video surveillance? Of course to get more detailed images, but also to enable the intelligent cropping function, which can be derived from the single shot 4 boxes enlarged to VGA resolution, keeping an eye on using only one camera up to 4 different players.

As we said come on the market in August, at a price of 850,000 yen, equal to slightly more than 6,000 €.