The Atomos Samurai Blade monitor and recorder is a real time monitoring with the SuperAtom 5” IPS 325ppi 1280x720 capacitive touchscreen. Monitoring functions at your fingertips including waveform, vectorscope, luma parade, RGB, focus peaking, zebra, false color & blue only.

Maximize use of your camera’s spectacular lens & sensor. Bypass internal high compression recording to H.264 / AVCHD / MPEG & upgrade to virtually lossless ready-to-edit 10-bit 422 Apple ProRes and Avid DNxHD with the Atomos Samurai Blade.

• 1280 x 720 On-Camera Monitor & Recorder

• 5" IPS Capacitive Touchscreen Display

• Records 1080p, 10-bit, 4:2:2

• ProRes or DNxHD Encoding and Playback

• (1) 240 GB SSD Drive

• Color standard REC709 HDTV

Video input/loop out

• SDI - 1 x HD/SD-SDI (SMPTE)

• Signal- Uncompressed 10/8bit 4:2:2 (camera dependent)

Video output (play out)

• SDI- 1 x HD/SD-SDI (SMPTE)

• Signal- Uncompressed 10/8bit 4:2:2 (Playback file dependent)

Supported loop out formats

• SDI to SDI

• 720p 50

• 1080i 50/60

• 1080psf 24/25/30

• 1080p 24/25/30

Realtime hardware encoding

• 1920x1080 8/10-bit 4:2:2 to Apple ProResHQ 422LT and/or Avid DNxHD 220/220x 145 36