Dream Chip’s AtomTwo is the world’s smallest global shutter broadcast camera

Germany’s Dream Chip Technologies is launching the AtomTwo camera, offering HDR pictures from a tiny package smaller than a matchbox.

Aimed primarily at sports broadcasting, the AtomTwo takes the already popular AtomOne and makes it even better. In a self-contained package weighing just 55 grams (1.94 oz) and measuring 29mm x 29mm x 33mm package (that’s 1.14 in x 1.14 in x 1.3 in), it offers impressive HDR quality with a wide dynamic range. An integral 4.5mm lens provides a 90˚ field of view, perfect for body-worn ref cams as well as fixed POV uses. That light weight, including lens and stereo microphone, also makes it perfect for mounting on a miniature drone, giving broadcasters viewpoints which have been impossible in the past.

Dream Chip says that the AtomTwo is the smallest camera with a global shutter available on the market today. This is really important in high-value productions such as sport, where a rolling shutter creates very visible distortions and disturbances. And that wide colour gamut make it simple to match to conventional box cameras in major productions. Being able to cut freely between the AtomTwo and system cameras frees directors from creative restrictions as the last thing you want is a jarring jump in quality when switching from one to the other.

Pricing and availability is TBA.

How small is small? Let's put it like this, here’s an AtomOne next to a €1 coin. And the company does an even smaller version of that called the mini!