Monthly Archives: April 2015
40th Anniversary of Steadicam
A party for the 40th anniversary of the Steadicam was held a NAB 2015 in the Tiffen Booth with Garret Brown honored for his Oscar-winning invention.
Tags: Tiffen
Sony Starts NAB
For many of us, NAB traditionally begins on Sunday afternoon with Sony’s annual Press Event at the Mirage. Monday morning kicks off with AJA, Blackmagic, Panasonic, and ARRI press conferences. There’s usually an unveiling–and Mr. Hiroshi Kiriyamadidn’t disappoint, as he whisked away the duvetyne drape to reveal: Sony HDC-4300 4K/HD Camera System The HDC-4300 has 3 2/3 inch 4K sensors, B4 lens mount, and… read more…
Tags: Sony
FDTimes at NAB C10106
Visit Film and Digital Times Booth C10106 (across Band Pro and Sony, along the wall) at NAB for complimentary copies of our April Edition, the Leica special Edition, and a few remaining copies of the February issue. You can also pick up free copies from our freestanding publication bins in the entrance to Central Hall and in South Hall. And… read more…
Tags: FDTimes, Film and Digital Times, NAB
Blackmagic URSA Updates
Version 2.3 Software update for Blackmagic URSA cameras now online at blackmagicdesign.com/support. 150 fps recording in 1920 x 1080 HD window mode. ProRes 444 XQ Recording onto 2 CFast 2 cards simultaneously in RAW, with higher frame rates in RAW. Support for the new V2 4K URSA image sensor which allows Ultra HD capture to 120 fps. read more…
Tags: Blackmagic URSA, URSA 4K v2
Canon XC-10 (UHD, 10:1 zoom, 1”)
Canon’s 5D paved the way for still cameras that shoot video. This one is a video camera that shoots impressive stills. If Canon’s XC-10 looks like a mirrorless camera, well, it is. It will be at home on gimbals, drones, rigs, remotes, and anywhere else a lighter, smaller 4K camera with attached zoom lens is requested. Tim Smith called it a “POV and rig camera on steroids.” It’s also a lot more. The XC-10 has a 1-inch sensor and an attached 10:1 zoom lens: 8.9-89 mm f/2.8-5.6. That’s approximately 17.6-176 mm in 35mm Academy Format. It records UHD 3840 x 2160 AVC Interframe 422 8-bit up to 30 fps , 60 fps in HD.
You can shoot 12 megapixel stills, or you can get 8 megapixel framegrabs from the video recording.
Tags: Canon XC-10
Canon C300 Mark II (Internal 4K)
It’s hard to believe that the Canon C300 was introduced 3 years ago. The camera has been very successful. Now, Canon introduces the successor: EOS C300 Mark II. It records what almost everyone had been asking for: internal 4K. There are so many new features inside the familiar C300 body shape, maybe they should have named it the C400 or C4K. Prototypes will be on hand at Canon’s NAB booth. The camera has a new 8.85 Megapixel Super 35mm 16:9 CMOS sensor that provides up to 4K (DCI) recording (4096 x 2160). read more…
Tags: Canon C300 Mk II
Zoom over to Cooke
At NAB 2015, Cooke Optics will announce the first of several new secret lenses to join its existing set of front anamorphic primes. Since the official word from Cooke is “zoom along as quickly as possible,” one might guess what it is. read more…
Tags: Cooke Look, Cooke Optics
ActionProducts Runner
From Switzerland, land of fitness and fine tools, comes the new ActionProducts Runner. It’s an exoskeletal device that mechanically increases the operator’s strength and endurance by transferring the full weight of a handheld or gimbal stabilized camera to counterbalanced spring-loaded arm supports. read more…
Gecko-Cam IMS OLPF
It would be almost unthinkable for a rental house to not have a good lens test projector. It helps decipher the optical characteristics of your lens: geometry, aberrations, and focus. But what happens when you use the same lens on a film camera and then a digital camera? Most digital cameras use an OLPF (Optical Low Pass Filter) in front of the sensor to reduce moiré effects. It’s usually birefringent crystal and works by slightly separating each ray of light into two or four rays that are slightly offset. read more…
Tags: Gecko-Cam, IMS, Lens Projector, OLPF
Band Pro Filmmakers Forum
4/14/15 – 4/15/15
Band Pro Filmmakers Forum at NAB: Lectures at NAB 2015
Band Pro Film & Digital will present lectures and screenings in their NAB Booth C10408 by James Neihouse, Daryn Okada, ASC, Dan Kneece, Bill Baggelaar, Randy Wedick, Philippe Ros, Bob Cranston on April 13-15. read more…
