Posts Tagged ‘atomos’

Sep
17
2014

Announcing the Atomos Power Station: Australian for “Battery”

In a departure from its usual offerings, the Australian company adds the Atomos Power Station to its product line, a multi-device battery pack for filmmakers. Do you find yourself chewing through batteries like Pez?[adrotate group="6"] Atomos has a solution for that, just announced at IBC. Their Power Station…
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Sep
12
2014

Atomos Shogun with 4k Recording Ready for Action at IBC 2014

Biggest and baddest of the Australian company’s ”touch screen weapons for filmmakers,” the Atomos Shogun will finally arrive on our shore in a scant 6 weeks. It’s not always easy to discern a compelling reason for purchasing an otherwise compelling product, but Atomos has no…
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Aug
27
2014

Atomos Take HDMI One Step Closer to SDI Professional Video Standard

Australian-based digital recorder company Atomos not only listened to customers asking for more from their cameras and recorders, they acted. Now Atomos is helping redefine industry standards with their new open HDMI standard. And to make HDMI even more usable, Atomos has released a new…
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Aug
13
2014

Price Drop on Atomos Samurai Blade

Australasia – more specifically, Australia and New Zealand – has become a hotbed of cinematographic technology and capitalism which companies like Blackmagic, RØDE, and Atomos call home. No surprise then – though welcome news nonetheless -- that Atomos has just announced a $300 price drop…
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Aug
6
2014

Profit by Buying the Right Equipment and Extending the Life of Your Gear

Buying any piece of equipment is a big deal. It is easy to get lost in the sea of new equipment and what you feel you might need on your next shoot. So using the Atomos Ninja Blade as a case study, here are the…
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Jul
8
2014

Atomos Ninja Star - The Pocket-size Apple ProRes Recorder and Deck

Is this a game changer? I don't really like that term but Atomos just released the new Ninja Star. This is a pocket size external recorder that records Prores files from your camera of choice. All that for less than $300. Buy now: Amazon B&H;…
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Apr
11
2014

Atomos Shogun 4K & Ninja Star Recorders - NAB 2014 from NextWaveDV

planet5D is partnering with nextwaveDV.com to bring you coverage from the NAB 2014 show floor. We’ve worked with Tony and Sean for years and they do an excellent job of providing quality interviews from NAB and we’re thrilled to be sharing their show floor interviews…
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Mar
3
2014

Now Shipping! - New Atomos Ninja Blade - All-in-One Monitor & Video Recorder

Do you ever suffer from gear envy? When I saw that Atomos is shipping a new version of their Atomos Ninja Blade 5" SDI Monitor & Recorder mine went into high gear.[adrotate group="6"][adrotate banner="5"] If you shoot with a DSLR you know the pain of…
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Dec
9
2013

Atomos Spyder Color Calibration Now Available!

I’ve recently spent time with Dave from Datacolor (who makes the Spyder calibration tools) and learned a bit more about the importance of calibration and it only makes sense that Atomos work add this to their Ninja-2 and Samurai! This will be a fantastic collaboration…
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Nov
28
2013

Atomos adds sweet new audio and video features to their Samurai Blade recorder

Bypassing a DSLR's intensive compression has real benefits in post production. I've been looking at a number of external recorder options, and the Atomos Blade stands out. Having a higher quality codec like Prores offers cleaner images and more importantly additional "headroom" to work with…
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