Hardware
by PVC Staff
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Snapshots - NAB 2008 Day 3
More pix from the show floor
Panasonic AG-HPX170
The Panasonic HPX170 is a P2-only update to the HVX200 (The HVX has been updated to the 200A and remains in the lineup). The HMC150, which records to AVCHD and lacks many of the 170’s advanced features, looks much the same.
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Snapshots - NAB 2008 Day 2
Codex Digital, SpeedGrade, Tangent, SI2K, and Nila
Codex Digital Portable and disk pack
Highlights of my walking around the show floor on Tuesday…
Codex Digital showed working versions of their Portable digital cine recorder. $44K gets you the lunchbox plus a three-hour drive pack, and the superb Codex user interface.
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Monday, April 14, 2008
Killer Camera Support From Sachtler
I spent some time today at the Sachlter booth checking out the Artemis vest and support – ACT 2. I enclosed a press release after the jump, but here’s what caught my attention:
• Build quality seems top quality
• Carbon Fiber, Carbon Fiber, Carbon Fiber!
• This sucker was built on a vibration table to optimize its ability for quick motion and no flex
• New internal electronics to handle the higher wattage camera systems such as RED
• Revised vest ads to breathability and flexibility
While I don’t have a need for one of these slick items, I still want one…
Press release after the jump:
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Sunday, April 13, 2008
Sony Snapshots - NAB 2008 Day 0
Some highlights of what Sony is showing
PMW-EX3 with 2/3” cine lens, Sony HDD recorder
Sony’s Juan Martinez gave me a night-before-the-show tour of the Sony booth (really a miniature city; “booth” doesn’t do it justice), and here are some of the highlights from a camera operator’s perspective.
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Friday, April 11, 2008
Locking HDMI cables!
Finally, a non-self-ejecting HDMI cable
Left: normal HDMI cable. Right: locking HDMI cable. Note the cantilevered paddle with two tiny retention hooks.
A colleague and I were discussing the sorry state of the physical HDMI connection; we call it a “self ejecting” technology. HDMI cables fall out of HDMI sockets with surprising ease. Fortunately there’s now a solution to this problem: a locking plug that works with any HDMI socket.
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Wednesday, April 09, 2008
We’re Off To See The Wizard
NAB always brings the promise of finding that secret ingredient we need to make us better at what we do.
It’s been awfully quiet around here lately...too quiet. But you know why: It’s the week before NAB (the National Association of Broadcasters) Convention, the largest annual industry trade show for those of us in North America), and we’re all hunkered down either a) finishing projects before NAB, b) getting our presentations ready for NAB, c) making out our shopping lists for NAB, or d) all of the above.
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