Monthly Archives: February 2014
Vantage Expands
Vantage, the worldwide camera equipment rental house — as well as designer and manufacturer of Hawk Anamorphic Lenses — is growing rapidly. They are simultaneously expanding their Prague, Paris, and Berlin branches, as well as headquarters in Weiden. Each expansion will add much needed space for current and future growth, providing customers with even more spacious, state-of-the-art camera check-out areas and facilities. We… read more…
Tags: Hawk, Vantage, Vantage Film
Panasonic 4K 35mm VariCam
Panasonic held a pre-NAB press conference today in New York. Although a nuts and bolts camera was not handed around, we were enticed with this image of a 35mm 4K VariCam that will be shown at NAB 2014. Steve Cooperman, Product Manager, outlined some of the main features: 35mm MOS sensor PL mount Dockable / detachable recorder can be tethered… read more…
Canon C300 AF Upgrade
First Canon introduced CMOS dual pixel phase-detection autofocus on its EOS 70D Digital SLR camera. Then it was announced as an upgrade for the C100. Now, continuous autofocus will be available as an upgrade on the EOS C300 with Canon autofocus lenses. Dual Pixel CMOS AF works like this. All the available imaging pixels work both for imaging and phase-detection at… read more…
Tags: Canon
Look: Cooke Anamorphic 40 mm
Prototype Cooke Anamorphic 40 mm at T2.8. Photo by Jon Fauer of Cooke Optics Chairman Les Zellan taken at Micro Salon on Sony A7R with MTF PL to E-mount adapter. The beard is sharp, the skin tones are smooth, and there is remarkably no internal barrel flare from the desperately overexposed window. The shadow area retains detail. The pitch black area… read more…
Tags: Anamorphic, Cooke
Cooke Anamorphic Tests
At Micro Salon in Paris last week, Cooke Optics presented test films shot by John de Borman, BSC and Patrick Blossier, AFC. The Paris test is online on Vimeo. The framegrabs above show some differences between a Cooke 75 mm anamorphic at T2.8 and a Cooke S4/i 40 mm at a T2.0 – 2.8 split. The Cooke anamorphic has “classic” oval… read more…
Tags: Anamorphic, Cooke, TSF
CP+ Camera Show Japan
In addition to remembering Feb. 14 on our calendars as Valentines day, we also mark Feb 13 – Feb 16 for this year’s biggest Camera Show in Japan: CP+ Camera and Photo Imaging Show 2014 in Yokohama. And it shows clear, that the popularity of this show grows every year. Last year, for the first time, a space for video and… read more…
Tags: CP+
BSC Expo – Images Added
The 2014 BSC Expo was held at Warner Bros Studios in Leavesden, near London, on January 24 and 25. This year, the Expo hosted around 2.500 visitors—up from last year at Pinewood. Attending the Expo was also an opportunity to visit part of the newly restored Studio. The facility was a historical WW II airfield and Rolls Royce aircraft factory…. read more…
Cooke Optics
Tour of Cooke Optics (Leicester, England) and a look at the team designing and building Cooke lenses and the new Cooke Anamorphic primes — coming in our NAB edition. read more…
