Tag Archives: ZGC
Cooke Metrology Lens Projector
Cooke’s new Lens Projector is now shipping. No rental house or lens owner should be without one. A lens test projector is essentially a slide projector. The light source is a bright, parallel beam. Instead of a slide, it carries a test chart (reticle) with format lines and resolution grids. The image is projected through the back of the lens onto a… read more…
Tags: Cooke Lens Test Projector, Cooke Optics, ZGC
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…
Dorn Good Fauer Finder
Want a terrific Director’s Finder? You’re three internet clicks away. Ingredients: One Sony NEX-5 digital camera, one MTF Services PL to Sony E Mount Adaptor, and one beautifully designed and machined Viewfinder and bracket from the wonderful folks at iDC Photo Video. Bruce Dorn has been sketching, milling and drilling away, and is now making me blush by calling it… read more…
Tags: Birns and Sawyer, iDC Photo Video, Sony, ZGC
P+S Technik X35
P+S TECHNIK’s new PS-Cam X35 premiered at Cine Gear Expo 2011 in the ZGC Booth, their US Distributor. Imagine an all-purpose, 35mm digital camera that reminds you of an Arriflex 435, is quiet enough for sync sound (there’s no fan), sits on your shoulder, mounts to tripods, dollies, remote heads, Steadicams, cars and 3D rigs. The P+S TECHNIK PS-Cam X35 shoots from 1 –… read more…
Tags: Cine Gear, P+S Technik, ZGC
P+S Technik X35
Only a few more shopping days until Cine Gear Expo 2011 in LA. P+S TECHNIK will premiere their new PS-Cam X35 at ZGC Booth #67. We have taken the vow of silence about the capabilities of the X35. But you can piece the puzzle together by looking at the picture above, and knowing a little something about P+S Technik. Also, the… read more…
Tags: Cine Gear, P+S Technik, ZGC
FDTimes NAB Edition Contents
FDTimes April 2011 double issue 41-42 hits the halls of NAB on opening day: at 9 am on Monday April 11, 2011. Pick up your complimentary copy of Film and Digital Times from the publication bins in the Central Hall Main Lobby and South Hall Upper Lobby, at our booth C9550, and at the booths of our sponsors, including Sony, Fujinon,… read more…
Tags: 4K, Abel, Angénieux, ARRI, Band Pro, Cameras, Canon, Cartoni, Chrosziel, cmotion, Cooke, Dedo Weigert, EasyFocus, Film and Digital Times, Filmtools, Fujifilm, Fujinon, iDC Photo Video, JVC, Leica, Lenses, Lighting, Lowel, Manfrotto, Manufacturer Field Trip, Motion Picture Equipment, NAB, OConnor, P+S Technik, Red, Sacthtler, Sensors, Sony, Tiffen, Tokyo, Trade Shows, Transvideo, ZEISS, ZGC
Primes by Leica on Sony
The new Sony NEX-5 digital still camera makes an excellent director’s finder. It has an APS-C sensor that is almost identical to Super 35 format: (23.4 x 15 mm), has an accommodating 18 mm flange focal depth, and no mirror to get in the way of PL motion picture lenses. You can order the PL to E mount adaptor from Mike Tapa… read more…
3D Workshop
ZGC Inc and Florian Maier, expert 3D consultant and developer of the P+S Technik 3D Rig, presented 3D workshops to sold-out seessions in New York, LA and Vancouver. Highly recommended: everything you always wanted to know about 3D, how to prep, rig, shoot, edit, present, and more. Florian compared good and bad 3D, secrets of the pros, gentle 3D and… read more…
Tags: 120EX, 3-D, 3D Rig, EX3, OConnor, P+S Technik, Sony, Transvideo, Workshop, ZGC
