Monthly Archives: September 2011
Chrosziel on Sony F3
At IBC, Chrosziel showed an ingenious system to support a Sony F3 and SR-R1 Memory Recorder. It’s light, stylish, practical and comfortable. The SR-R1 Memory Recorder lets you record Sony S-Log 10 and 12-bit RGB 4:4:4. It connects via cable directly to the F3. The SRMemory cards, about the size of an iPhone, come in 256 GB, 512 GB and… read more…
Cooke Panchros Uncoated
Cooke Panchro /i lenses are now available with uncoated front elements. They can be obtained on special order, and can be swapped with the standard coated elements by a qualified lens technician. Uncoated front elements may help create a different, “historic” look — more flare, softer edges, etc. A set of 6 Panchro lenses includes: 18, 25, 32, 50, 75,… read more…
Airstar Gaffair
EXT. NEW YORK CITY – NIGHT New York City has an estimated 300,000 streetlights. Most of them are sodium vapor. Filming night exteriors, standard practice was often to augment the available light with HMI or Tungsten. “Fighting” the available light would provide good skin tones on talent, but “unlit” backgrounds would have a different color. Among the lights shown at… read more…
Tags: Lighting
Kinotehnik LCDVFe
Meet Tonis Liivamagi, CEO of Kinotehnik. His marvelous LCDVFe Electronic Viewfinder was shown at IBC. It’s a big step up: sharp, good color, a universal color viewfinder for cameras with HDMI output. You can really see whether you’re in or out of focus. It will be equally at home on a Sony F3, RED Dpic, or on a DSLR. Delivering soon from headquarters… read more…
Tags: Accessories
Grip Trix
Herb Ault (left), Key Grip, inventor, and president of Grip Trix Inc, with Fred Winters at Cine Gear Expo NY. Grip Trix builds electric powered camera dollies in their North Hollywood facility. Right now, they’re rented in LA, NY, Chicago and Detroit. Why electric? Herb explained, “Nothing else has the torque. You can go from 0 to 40 faster than anything… read more…
Tags: grip
PRG Foton Inkie
PRG premiered their new Foton TruColor Light at Cine Gear Expo NY 2011. Think of it as a cool alternative to the 150 watt Inkie. It uses “remote phosphor technology” which PRG’s Rich Pearceall explained to me as being like a laser tracing rays on a small CRT-like phosphor screen. The result is a single source, single shadow, high intensity,… read more…
Tags: PRG
ToughGaff
My favorite new product at Cine Gear Expo NYC: ToughGaff gaffers and camera tape holder. It’s one of those great, simple products that will soon be seen everywhere on set. Inexpensive, clever, helpful…ToughGaff is destined to become as famous as the Gaffers Tape it dispenses, and as famous as Gaffers Tape’s inventor, Ross Lowell.ToughGaff was invented by Steadicam Operator Nir… read more…
Tags: Accessories, Cine Gear
Cine Gear Expo NYC
Cine Gear Expo opened in New York today–and continues tomorrow, Sunday Sept 25 from 11 am – 5 pm at the trendy Metropolitan Pavilion (125 W 18 St, NYC 10011). Well attended, with lively seminars, excellent hors d’oevres and drinks–even Steve Manios, Jr of Manios Digital & Film was impressed. Several new products were introduced at the show–described in separate articles. … read more…
Tags: Cine Gear
Weisscam T-1
Stefan Weiss showed his Weisscam T-1 prototype at the Band Pro Booth in IBC. It has a 2/3″ sensor, 600 ISO, 11 stops of exposure latitude, 12-bit RAW, and 10-bit HD output. Speeds are planned from normal to 350 fps. Additional models, including 35mm sensor, are planned. Stefan is a working cinematographer who also invents cameras (like the Weisscam HS-1… read more…
Tags: Cameras
Angénieux ADS/i
Angenieux showed working models of its ADS/i lens data system at IBC. A small box that attaches directly to Optimo zoom lenses, ADS/i speeds up production and post-production with helpful metadata about lens parameters: focus, iris, and zoom settings. Using Cooke’s open architecture /i Technology protocol, film and digital cameras can record frame accurate metadata of essential lens settings. /i technology… read more…
Tags: Angénieux
LiveU: Backpack Broadcasting
On Sunday, August 28, 2011, Fox News Photographer/Editor Paul Celeste set up his camera at Newport Harbor in Rhode Island, preparing for a long day of live shots as Hurricane Irene passed over. Through most the morning the satellite truck was stable, sheltered from the wind by a parking garage. But, when the eye passed overhead and the winds shifted,… read more…
Tags: Production, Products of Note
Leica’s Eleven
Three additional focal length Leicas were “leaked” at IBC as prototype models. The new Summilux-C 16, 29, and 65 mm primes are planned to be introduced at NAB 2012. This brings the set to eleven: 16, 18, 21, 25, 29, 35, 40, 50, 65, 75, and 100 mm. They are all 142 mm long from front to flange, have 95… read more…
BIRTV 2011
Beijing’s BIRTV 2011 was without doubt China’s most prestigious Film and TV exhibiton and one of the largest and most influential industry events in Asia this year. 56,900 industry professionals and visitors attended BIRTV 2011 from August 24th to 27th. There were 469 exhibitors (Film: 86; Video: 192; Related equipment & Technology: 41; Digital & Mobile TV: 52; Post: 10; Transmission:… read more…
Tags: Trade Shows
New Tiffen Dfx 3.0
Tiffen has released the new version 3.0 Tiffen Dfx digital filter suite–a video and still image editing effects software package that is much more than a digital version of a truck full of their famous glass filters. Tiffen Dfx 3.0 Software premiered at IBC 2011. The Dfx digital filter suite has been popular with cinematographers, photographers, and VFX artists to pre-viz, play… read more…
Tags: Tiffen
New York Shows
Film and Digital Times will be at two New York shows next week. Createasphere: Sept 20-21 Cine Gear Expo NY: Sept 24-25
Tags: Trade Shows
Oli at IBC 2011
This year was IBC’s highest level of attendance. To prepare for IBC, I like to plan in advance: circling “must see” company names on the floor plan. I had trouble with Sony not mentioning specifically where they were in Hall 12 until I arrived and found that Sony occupied the entire Hall. Keynotes, conferences and seminars touched on broadcasting, web casting, social… read more…
Tags: IBC, Trade Show, Trade Shows
IBC Camera Reports
IBC is like NAB with better food and worse weather. It’s a wrap for the 55,000 geeks, gawkers, grips, and gaffers who spent 5 days in the caverns of Amsterdam’s RAI convention center. Best sandwiches at RAI: salmon on fresh baguette behind Hall 9. Best daily happy hour: Transvideo (Chateau Margaux 1997 Grand Cru Classé, smoked duck, paté). Best afternoon snack:… read more…
Tags: IBC
FDT Online 10:30am Sept 9
Film and Digital Times September Issue 44 goes online at 10:30 am September 9 in time for opening of IBC day 1 in Amsterdam. High and low rez PDFs will be ready for subscribers to download at: www.fdtimes.com/members Get your printed copies at IBC in FDTimes’ booth 11.F31, from our sponsors, and in magazine bins. Paper copies will be mailed to subscribers… read more…
Tags: Film and Digital Times
Sony F65 at ASC & DGA
65K. Dollars, not pixels, not Euros. FDTimes embedded reporters in LA are breathlessly blogging. It’s too late to stop the presses. I’m flying to IBC, our September Issue 44 is printing, and I had guessed the F65 would be somewhere between 70 – 85K (luckily not specified whether that was with SR-R4, dollars or Euros, or whose exchange rate applied). Today, Sony… read more…
Tags: Sony
Road to IBC: Rijksmuseum Schiphol
If you’re on the way to IBC and arrive at Amsterdam Airport before Spetember 5, visit the Rijksmuseum Schiphol exhibit of nine Dutch Flower Paintings. In Holland’s Golden Age, a painting of a flower was much less expensive than the real thing. Cut flowers were luxuries in the 17th century. Only the wealthy could afford to have them in their homes and… read more…
Tags: IBC
