ProVideo Coalition.com: Camera Log by Adam Wilt | Founder | Pro Cameras, HDV Camera, HD Camera, Sony, Panasonic, JVC, RED, Video Camera Reviews

Leader is out to steal some thunder from Astro with the new LV 5330 on-camera monitor. It’ll show pix, waveform, vectorscope, embedded audio metering, WFM parade, and the “Cinezone” false-color display shown above. Colors are mapped to brightness levels, showing exposure zones directly. Here, the lower left white patch on the MacBeth chart is just heading into clipping. About six or so inches across; price will be in the US$6500-$8000 range when it ships. They have an eight-incher, too, for about $10K.

Outside the tent: a much-appreciated bit of support gear.

Lights on a boom.

Komet LED lights.

Light and fish in tank.

The ol’ barn.

Part of the Expo was arrayed along the streets of this dusty Western frontier village on the Universal backlot.

What’s inside the ol’ barn.

All these fronts are simply that: fronts. What’s inside? Lots of nothing, plus power distribution. 800 D.C. amps!

Even the mice were impressed.

Virgil and Beatrice Mouse, working the Codex Digital stand, were unfazed by the heat. Codex had two production-run portable disk recorders at the show (as well as the established rackmount recorder); they expect to be shipping to customers this summer.

Red Gap.

RED didn’t have a booth this year, leaving a red gap to be filled by vendors like Element Technica, Sim Video, and others (more RED toys in the Day 2 report).

Big light takes big globe.

Size matters in this town. This is just the instrument itself, unlamped; those heat sinks you see are for the globe’s mounting socket. I didn’t dare ask what wattage this light runs, for fear of being made to feel even more inadequate…