Production
Small gear, big crew
Ah, trade show season, where intrepid camera specialists steal daringly into exhibition centres like Indiana Jones on the hunt...
Post Production
The faded greatness of bars and tone
Happily, we’re now way too smart to need bars and tone recorded at the beginning of the things we...
Distribution
A better kind of rigging…or is it?
This one’s for anyone who’s ever realised, halfway through a shot, that the single quarter-inch thread that’s rigging the...
Production
Ovide’s Koko recorder is bringing back a great
It’s not very often that discontinued products spring back to life. In fact, if anyone can think of any...
Production
Autofocus which doesn’t exist
No, this isn’t a call for the thousand-dollar, twenty-to-one zoom that’s f/1.4 all the way down, covers full frame...
Production
LED lights that don’t exist
Pocketsized cameras and laptops containing the equivalent of an entire late-90s post production facility have made it easy for...
Distribution
IBC 2023 – The world is a workstation
When Amazon Web Services has a booth as large as some of the major equipment suppliers at a big,...
Post Production
IBC Day 3: The unchanging eyeball
There’s a strange imperative, at exhibitions like IBC, to find new inventions that make previously expensive and difficult things...
Production
IBC 2023 – Day 2
Strolling around the halls of IBC, it’s easy to forget that each one of the humming, blinking boxes of...
Production
Updates from IBC 2023 – A push for the high end
If anything has characterised the last decade or so of film and TV equipment releases, it’s democratisation. That means...
