Sony Unveils FX5 Full-Frame Camera
Sony’s new compact cinema camera adds open-gate capture, 5K video and internal 16-bit RAW recording for filmmakers seeking higher resolution and faster slow motion.
- On Wednesday, July 22, 2026, Sony Electronics introduced the FX5, a new full-frame camera in its Cinema Line series featuring Open Gate recording and a 16.6MP stacked CMOS sensor.
- Building on the popular FX3, Sony integrated the BIONZ XR2 processor and a chunkier handgrip housing the higher-capacity NP-SA100 battery, which increases shooting time by approximately 30%.
- The camera supports 5K video at up to 120fps, while optional accessories include the DVF-EL1 detachable OLED viewfinder and the XLR-H2 handle unit, which enables 32-bit float audio recording.
- Available mid-August, the FX5 body starts at $4,899.99 USD, with the XLR bundle costing $5,499.99 USD; Sony requires VPG400 CFexpress Type A cards for top-end RAW recording.
- Director Gareth Edwards, known for "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story," tested the FX5 in Cambodia, Thailand, and Nepal, calling it the "run-and-gun cinema camera to beat" for guerrilla filmmaking.
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Sony Unveils FX5 Full-Frame Camera
SAN DIEGO—Sony Electronics today introduced the FX5 full-frame camera, the latest in its Cinema Line series.The camera relies on a new fully stacked CMOS image sensor that raises sensitivity performance with 15+ stops of dynamic range, three base ISO settings and a Dual Gain shooting mode.For the first time in the Cinema Line FX series, the FX5 supports Open Gate shooting and in-camera recording in X-OCN, Sony’s proprietary RAW format. It shoots…
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Sony has announced the exciting new FX5 cinema camera, and it has a ton of interesting features and improvements. It also has among the strictest memory card requirements of any Sony FX or Alpha Series camera to date.
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technewstube.comThe industry's most popular cinema camera gets a huge upgrade — and the Sony FX5's open gate video isn't even the best bit about the FX3 successor
New Sony FX5 is the successor to the FX3 compact cinema cameraA raft of upgrades include a new sensor, processor, battery and open gate recordingPricing starts at £4,700 and availability is from AugustThe industry's most popular compact cinema camera, the Sony FX3 from 2021, just got a huge upgrade. And having shot multiple productions with this very camera, I can tell you now that its successor, the new FX5, is going to be a big hit. Last year …
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