Yes, we've talked a lot about NAB and the problem is that it is very very difficult to cover all just a week or even two weeks. Westcott and several great lighting options and they have sent me one of their new flex lights which…
We had some awesome coverage of NAB and we had over 100,000 visitors to the NAB life blog as well! If you happen to miss the live blog, then you also missed some special coverage we had from two volunteers, Chris Hollo and Mark Mosrie,…
Five years in the making with a target release date by end of this year, the Redrock Halo is a fascinating – and ambitious -- example of the integration of smartphone/tablet tech into classic filmmaking. One of the items I missed during my 48 hours…
In this installment of “Rise of the Planet of the Apps” we highlight Switronix’s very cool VoltBridge, which displays battery levels via Bluetooth on both iOS and Android devices. [adrotate group="6"] It’s not a large announcement, but VoltBridge will make a big difference to users…
In an oasis of incredible gear set in the middle of the Nevada desert, the irony is that NAB 2015 was really about people. Proof point? I shot all our interviews on a freaking iPhone 6 with nothing but the on-board mic, proving once again…
The Logger's Lunchbox brings back the "rest of the camera" for ENG shooters. For an electronic news gathering (ENG) type of shooter, the DSLR video revolution was a pain. You "lost" the integration of audio, video, and power being all in one box. [adrotate group="6"]…
South Korean camera accessories maker Motion9 has been busy building more than simply a collection of products to support your DSLR or DSLM/mirrorless movie/stills hybrid camera — they have been hard at work creating an ecosystem of many potentially linked parts. That ambition is evident…
Rototlight’s Neo — it doesn’t appear to be an acronym so why capitalize it? – is one of the most promising LED movie lights to appear at NAB 2015 and I for one will be very excited to see one in the flesh, as it…
‘Revolutionary’ is one of the most-overused clichés in reporting and so are ‘game-changing’ and ‘breakthrough’ but those words seem inadequate when applied to Redrock Micro’s wireless Hālo focus-pulling system. Redrock showed off part of this system-in-development, Hālo Explorer, at NAB 2015. The Hālo system impressed…
Blackmagic Design not only announced two amazing updates to its core post-production software products, DaVinci Resolve and Fusion, but also a suite of new 4K image acquisition hardware in the form of some completely unexpected movie cameras and accessories. The Melbourne-based company keeps going from…
