The Atomos Samurai Blade 5" is a professional, camera-mountable field monitor and HD-SDI recorder. It allows videographers to bypass internal camera compression and record pristine 10-bit 4:2:2 video directly to Apple ProRes or Avid DNxHD codecs using removable 2.5" SSDs or HDDs.

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Atomos Samurai Blade

325DPI, 5" IPS 1280 x 720 capacitive touchscreen monitor/recorder

Waveform RGB & Luma Parade, Vectorscope with zoom, and test pattern generator

Adjustable gamma, contrast and brightness

HD-SDI input and output

Real-time monitoring, playback, playout to a PC or Mac with QuickTime, and edit logging

Focus Peaking, 0-100% Zebra, and two modes of False Color monitoring

Record direct from the sensor to 10-bit, 4:2:2 ProRes or DNxHD

S-Log / C-Log recording

Trigger REC/STOP from camera (Canon, Sony, ARRI, Panasonic, RED, JVC)

Timecode from camera

2.5" HDD/SSD media storage

Samurai Blade records directly from the sensor to 10-bit, 4:2:2 Apple ProRes or Avid DNxHD, bypassing a major round of compression and data loss.

Blade's operating system, AtomOS, manages recording, playback, monitoring, and simple cut and tag editing via a capacitive touchscreen. New to AtomOS 5.0 is Alpha Channel, Transparency support, full Waveform RGB and Luma Parade, and Vectorscope with zoom.

Atomos Samurai Blade

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