Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Snapshots - NAB 2008 Day 2

Adam Wilt | 04/15- 11:44 PM

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.

Monday, April 14, 2008

Killer Camera Support From Sachtler

Scott Gentry | 04/14- 06:11 PM

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:

Sunday, April 13, 2008

Sony Snapshots - NAB 2008 Day 0

Adam Wilt | 04/13- 10:17 PM

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.

Friday, April 11, 2008

Locking HDMI cables!

Adam Wilt | 04/11- 10:44 AM

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. 

Wednesday, April 09, 2008

We’re Off To See The Wizard

Chris Meyer | 04/09- 10:22 PM

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.

Sunday, April 06, 2008

Review: Camhandle camera support

Adam Wilt | 04/06- 07:22 PM

Renegade tripod handle makes handheld shooting smoother.

The $220 Camhandle looks like a tripod handle gone AWOL from its tripod. Its attachment plate bolts to the underside of the camera, and it hangs off the left front side. It looks goofy, but it works surprisingly well. I tested it for two weeks on the notoriously hard-to-handhold PMW-EX1.

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