Ryan Avery of movie industry supplier Veydra announced the addition of an 85mm T/2.2 MFT (aka M43) purpose-built cinema prime lens to its formerly 5-strong mini ciné lens line-up this week. He also revealed that a 10mm wide-angle is in development and will appear late…
High-end on-location camera bag maker f-stop gear has kicked-off KitSentry, a new concept in smart, secure camera bags, and has announced a KickStarter campaign to fund this exciting project.[adrotate group="6"] I can count on the fingers of two hands the times my film and photography…
Before there were garage-based startups in the U.S., there were cottage industries in the UK (yeah, OK, and in a bunch of other places, too). In this installment of our occasional series on Kickstarter projects, we interview Nathan Hughes of Restrap, a small family business…
After a successful Kickstarter campaign where they achieved funding above their goal, innovative camera bag maker f-stop has launched a short Indiegogo funding campaign for those who missed out on its predecessor. The f-stop Kashmir - Female Focused Camera Pack campaign closes January 13 at 11:59pm PT with…
Independent Producer/Director Yvonne Russo is shooting Viva Verdi!, a documentary about musicians living and teaching at Casa Di Riposo per Musicisti in Milan, the home built by Giuseppe Verdi in 1896. After crowdfunding the production, Ms Russo has declared she will never use crowdfunding again.…
Taking up about the same space as a GoPro, Lume Cube mashes up the GoPro ethos with state of the art LEDs, Pocket Wizard-style control via Bluetooth and a smartphone app – and the ability to function as either continuous lighting for video or flash…
Pack-of-cigarettes-sized, open source hardware add-on Lumera allows instantaneous transmission of your DSLR and mirrorless shots to social networks; offload to USB drive; and remote control of your camera via smartphone app. [adrotate group="6"] For those of us with older-school cameras (read: no integrated WiFi), there…
Ryan Avery of movie product distributor Convergence Products and now Veydra has launched a KickStarter project to make the Veydra Mini Primes, a set of dedicated prime optics for movie cameras like the Panasonic Lumix GH4 and Blackmagic Design’s Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera according to…
Borne of his doctor’s recommendation to stop using the Glidecam to recover from wrist stress, Renso Gomez decided instead to design a simple but clever add-on called the Eroz X1 –now on Kickstarter and already oversubscribed with 29 days still to go.[adrotate group="6"] If you’ve…
Karl Marx wasn’t thinking about the Anura pocket drone when he penned Das Kapital and waxed poetic about the means of production, but hey: it’s kind of cool. And maybe a little creepy. I’m not sure whether to be excited or mortified, [adrotate group="6"]but clearly the…
