Leica D2D Digital Video and Still System to Met the Highest Demands
30 September 2001 - Heerbrugg, Switzerland
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Simply better - the Leica D2D V3 video photography system provides fantastic digital videos and pictures with the highest resolution
The year 1912 is a milestone in the history of photography: the year of the design of Ur-Leica – the world's first 35mm camera. Today, 90 years on, Leica offers you the new video and still photography system, which opens up previously unknown opportunities: the new Leica D2D high-resolution digital camera introduces a new chapter in the world of digital video. This technical masterpiece provides perfect picture quality and is simple to use, both live and digital.
Using the sophisticated system, the live digital video images are sent to a PC via FireWire. They are recorded in an uncompressed format and simultaneously displayed on the monitor. Starting and stopping digital recording is as easy as can be. After a maximum recording time of 1.5 hours (or longer if preferred) one can view the video material, select sequences of interest and edit them together as required. Each frame in a sequence can also be saved in maximum resolution as a still picture. Once one has finished editing a video one can compress it and burn it onto a DVD. There is also the option of saving the video via the interface to an existing network or printing the still pictures directly. The videos can be made available on a computer or on the Internet irrespective of existing analog standards.
The Software consists of four Modules. The start module summarizes the simple commands required to use the various processing modules. The Capture module is used to control recording in the same way as an analog video: Record, Pause, Stop. The memory capacity of the raw video data is 1.5 hours, with an option to expand this. The recordings can be handled with the greatest of ease in the Edit module; functions include repeat play, fast search, select sequences, re-order etc. In the Encode module the compression ratio can be selected for different uses: from a low resolution with small memory requirement to the highest resolution with a large memory requirement. The integrated DVD writer with 4.7 GB RAM and capacity for about 1.5 hrs video is used for storing edited videos. The clips can be viewed with Windows Media Player on a PC or shown using a video projector.
The year 1912 is a milestone in the history of photography: the year of the design of Ur-Leica – the world's first 35mm camera. Today, 90 years on, Leica offers you the new video and still photography system, which opens up previously unknown opportunities: the new Leica D2D high-resolution digital camera introduces a new chapter in the world of digital video. This technical masterpiece provides perfect picture quality and is simple to use, both live and digital.
Using the sophisticated system, the live digital video images are sent to a PC via FireWire. They are recorded in an uncompressed format and simultaneously displayed on the monitor. Starting and stopping digital recording is as easy as can be. After a maximum recording time of 1.5 hours (or longer if preferred) one can view the video material, select sequences of interest and edit them together as required. Each frame in a sequence can also be saved in maximum resolution as a still picture. Once one has finished editing a video one can compress it and burn it onto a DVD. There is also the option of saving the video via the interface to an existing network or printing the still pictures directly. The videos can be made available on a computer or on the Internet irrespective of existing analog standards.
The Software consists of four Modules. The start module summarizes the simple commands required to use the various processing modules. The Capture module is used to control recording in the same way as an analog video: Record, Pause, Stop. The memory capacity of the raw video data is 1.5 hours, with an option to expand this. The recordings can be handled with the greatest of ease in the Edit module; functions include repeat play, fast search, select sequences, re-order etc. In the Encode module the compression ratio can be selected for different uses: from a low resolution with small memory requirement to the highest resolution with a large memory requirement. The integrated DVD writer with 4.7 GB RAM and capacity for about 1.5 hrs video is used for storing edited videos. The clips can be viewed with Windows Media Player on a PC or shown using a video projector.
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