Na Leo TV Tackles Live Sports With Hitachi HD Cameras

摘要

Na Leo TV (NLTV) is the public access television station run by Na Leo o Hawaii (NLOH), the nonprofit leader for media services on the "Big Island" of Hawaii. We provide public, education and govern- ment programming for the entire island across three cable channels, website and mobile app. In the spring of 2019, we started looking at new cameras in order to produce more live events such as high school sports, but our existing prosumer-level HD camcorders weren't up to the task. Our president wanted a higher quality standard, and to meet the demands of live sports, we needed cameras that would respond well in low light and could zoom all the way down a football field. Our previous cameras also required tons of cabling-including separate video, communications and power-that was cumbersome for field use. I wanted the simplicity of a single SMPTE fiber cable for each camera, the higher quality of 2/3-inch sensors and the ability to use longer, B4-mount lenses.