KOKUSAI DENKI Electric Expands 4K Camera Line

KOKUSAI DENKI Electric America has introduced its new Z-HD6500-S1 UHD/HD production camera at NAB Show New York, marking the company’s third 4K model. Designed to make high-quality 4K production more accessible, the camera delivers professional-grade imaging at a budget-friendly price, catering to broadcasters, event centers, and houses of worship.

The Z-HD6500-S1 features advanced 2/3-inch UHD-native sensors and RGB 3-chip technology, ensuring sharp, vibrant visuals with excellent color fidelity and low noise. With its native 4K global shutter, high sensitivity, and filters for improved shooting control, the camera provides reliable performance under LED lighting and low-light environments, bringing studio-level 4K production within reach of more creators.

KOKUSAI DENKI Electric America will unveil a new 4K camera at NAB New York this week, adding a third 4K model to its product line. Now available, the Z-HD6500-S1 UHD/HD production system opens the 4K production universe to a broader customer base as a professional yet cost-efficient option aligned with most budgets.

The Z-HD6500-S1 is based on proven technology and professional engineering from KOKUSAI DENKI. The camera borrows design elements from the popular Z-HD6500 multi-format HD camera, and has been reinvented as a full-featured native 4K camera.  It includes the same 2/3-inch UHD-native sensors as KOKUSAI DENKI’s high-end SK-UHD7000, ensuring uniform image quality across different production environments. Its RGB 3-chip technology, with 8.3 million effective pixels per sensor, resulting in sharp, vibrant images with minimal noise, outstanding color fidelity and remarkable sensitivity.

The Z-HD6500-S1 incorporates native 4K global shutter technology to eliminate artifacts such as banding and flickering, optimizing performance within houses of worship, event centers, and broadcast studios utilizing LED lighting and displays. High sensitivity and a strong signal-to-noise ratio strengthen reliability, ensuring high-quality video capture in low-light conditions as well as ultra-quiet images. The feature set also includes a ¼ ND filter for shallow depth shooting, and a low-pass filter to reduce visual patterns or optical illusions known as Moire effects.

“We have proudly achieved a new benchmark in price-to-performance ratio with the Z-HD6500-S1, which opens doors for content producers who have largely been priced out of the 4K production market,” said Sean Moran, COO of KOKUSAI DENKI Electric America, Inc. “We have engineered a 4K acquisition system that establishes a professional quality native 4K studio and sports camera with a global shutter and features typically found on more expensive cameras. The result is a solution that is high on the value chain for a large cross-section of the broadcast and production community.”