Panavision’s DXL 8K camera and large format lenses offer the optimum system for creating the unmatched aesthetic of large format cinematography. Attributes such a shallower depth of field, greater magnification and a wider field of view produce a softer, pleasing, more natural image—an aesthetic closely attuned to the way the eye sees.
Millennium DXL
Ecosystem
The Millennium DXL Ecosystem offers full end-to-end solutions from 8K Capture, Customized Large Format Optics, and Proprietary Color Management to streamlined 8K and proxy Workflows. Achieve, maintain and realize your vision from Production all the way through Post.
DXL Modular Features
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FIZ Control Modules — Works with many popular MDR handheld units
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DXL Modular Accessories
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The 8k sensor and large format lenses actually get creamier and have a smooth silky texture. Combined with older glass, especially the Ultra Panavision lenses, it just starts to look like magic.
— Kramer Morgenthau, ASC
Create Your Signature Look
Primo 70 offers a rounded, defined focus, natural sharpness, pleasing flesh tones and uniform bokeh across the field of view.
Sphero 65 offers a moderate focus roll-off with subtle aberrations; blended layers of contrast; pleasing flesh tones and rounded out-of-focus properties; and classically soft, glamorous images.
System 65 offers organic focus roll-off; pleasing flesh tones; rounded bokeh; and warm, contouring “classic” 65mm images.
Super Panavision 70 offers a distinct focus roll-off; low contrast; a uniquely contoured bokeh; a glamorous, softer “vintage” images with a smooth texture.
Ultra Panavision 70 offers an ultra-wide 2.76:1 aspect ratio; organic focus roll-off; anamorphic artifacts, flares, and elliptical bokeh; and soft, glamorous, classic-looking images.
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Panavision is renowned for our full line of top-quality optics. With the biggest selection of large format lenses and anamorphic glass, cinematographers have never had more choices to create their own signature look. And all are designed for optimal performance with the 8K DXL sensor.
Introducing the Primo Artiste Series
The Primo 70s and new Primo Artiste lenses combine form and function with fast, wireless, motorized mechanics and, when married with our new anamorphic glass attachment, produce the signature anamorphic flares and bokeh on a spherical lens
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The Beauty of Anamorphic
With a sensor height of 21mm the DXL offers true 4K anamorphic. Our newly designed T series optics will give users optimized texture, flaring and true 4K resolution.
The 8k sensor and large format lenses actually get creamier and have a smooth silky texture. Combined with older glass, especially the Ultra Panavision lenses, it just starts to look like magic.
— Kramer Morgenthau, ASC
The Anatomy of an Image
The DXL 8K Large Format Sensor allows for a more filmic look
The DXL 8K has the highest resolution sensor on the market producing a smoother not sharper images allowing for a more filmic look. This large imager gives cinematographers a shallower depth of field, greater magnification, wider field of view and more control over image depth.
PX Pro
PX Pro is a custom color correction filter made with a precise, high-precision design and manufacturing process, providing a significant increase in color separation and higher color precision. The filters provide an infrared (IR) and ultraviolet (UV) cut that improves color clarity and reduces noise and IR contamination. The characteristics are most notably demonstrated in lens flares and highlights, resulting in a cleaner image that enables for more creative control.
Dynamic Range
DXL boasts of up to 14.5 stops of dynamic range.
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SDR vs. HDR
Take advantage of DXL’s end-to-end system and get the full value of DXL’s
dynamic range with the LI HDR Village system
HDR Cart
Millennium DXL is ideal for HDR output viewing in 2084.
Check out the Light Iron HDR cart today to improve on set experiences. HDR is the ideal for the future of production and post.
Sensor Comparison
Resolution - 8192 x 4320
Physical Size - 40.96mm x 21.60mm
Diagonal - 46.31mm
Pixel Pitch - 16-bit, 35.5 Megapixel CMOS
Dynamic Range - 14.5 Stops
Max FPS - 60fps at 8K Full Frame. 75fps at 8K 2.4:1
Light Iron Color
DXL’s revolutionary image mapping process, Light Iron Color, delivers a rich cinematic look right out of the camera. Feast your eyes on film-like density, neutral shadows, and natural skin tones. Light Iron Color deviates from traditional digital color matrices by following in the footsteps of film stock philosophy instead of direct replication of how colors look in nature.
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Light Iron Color Specs
16 bit files
RAW image capture
REDWideGamut
IPP2
ACES Compatible
REC2084
Log3G10
Workflow
8K for all projects and budgets
DXL allows for the choice of RAW or dual recording, giving your
workflow more flexibility and efficiency
RAW
8K
- REDCode
- 8K RAW
- 5:1 vista vision
- 60fps
- 72@7k
- 80@6k
- 96@5k
RGB
4K
- ProResHQ
- ProResLT
- ProRes Proxy
- DNxHR
- DNx220x
2K
- ProRes XQ
- ProRes444
- ProResHQ
- ProResLT
- ProRes Proxy
- DNxHR
- DNx220x
ColorFront is a partner in both processing and proxy allowing the DXL to render 8K RAW off a Proxy at over 100fps.
RAW power with ProRes speed
4K ProResHQ = 150/min per TB
8K RAW = 60/min per TB
Transcoding from 8K RAW at 41fps
Transcoding fromProRes 2K at 100fps
Simultaneous Dual Workflow
Dual workflow enables RAW to go from RAIDS and LTO while Proxy goes to editorial and web. This happens simulatenously on the OUTPOST cart and makes 8K acceptable for projects of all sizes and budgets.
Outpost
Outpost is fast and equipped with ColorFront rendering tools optimized for DXL
A full post laboratory that goes wherever you go.
Operated by union operators
Configurable & Customizable
LTO7 Robot
24/7 Support
Ships in a standard case
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VFX
DXL’s internal gyro and accelerometer measures XYZ in orientation and movement through Z space.
Data is captured per-frame and saved into the R3D RAW file for use in any VFX workflow or database. Extrapolate data by frame. Implement into any number of VFX workflows or databases. No more guesswork in post
Timecode
DXL is the first camera to have a built-in Ambient lockit box and wireless timecode using the ACN system.
No more external lockit box. Track more metadata. Keep all your cameras in-sync with no drift slip-sync free dailies. The ACN antennae eliminates
the need for TC jamming. It is a constant, consistent pulse delivered from the Mater Lockit.
DXL Magazine
Proprietary DXL Magazine
- 512MB or 1TB
- small, lightweight
- USBC downloading at 1/2 real time
- captures both 8K and proxy simultaneously
- held in place by a locking clip
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- Sensor Type
- 16-bit, 35.5 Megapixel CMOS
- Resolution
- 8192 x 4320
- Sensor Size
- Large Format: 40.96mm x 21.60mm (Diagonal: 46.31mm)
- Dynamic Range
- 15 stops
- Max Frame Rate
- 60 fps at 8K Full Frame (8192 x 4320), 75 fps at 8K 2.4:1 (8192 x 3456)