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Guy’s NAB 2011 Wrapup

Apr 21, 2011 at 5:18 pm in cinematography, digital video news, gear, lighting, location sound, production by Guy Cochran · 2 Comments »

What was cool at NAB 2011? Sure, there was a lot of innovation and buzz, but what will I actually buy and use? A Sony F3 with S-log and Zeiss $30k Master primes? Probably not.

The things that got me really excited went largely unnoticed, but here’s some of my favorites:

ATEM Mixer Switchers

Under tight NDA the night before NAB, a few of us were allowed to preview the Blackmagic goods. I was astonished at what I  [read more →]

Canon U.S.A. introduces the EOS 5D Mark II DSLR camera featuring 1920×1080 HD video capture

Sep 16, 2008 at 6:43 pm in digital video news by Guy Cochran · 4 Comments »

Josh’s bottom line:

This still camera is exciting because it has a single large CMOS imaging sensor, which means the depth-of-field is similar to a film camera rather than a typical camcorder with small chips.

And it records Quicktime 1080p HD at 30 fps, around 48 minutes to a 16 GB card, or, output through HDMI (no audio though) to a portable recording device (which one?). The format is H.264 at 38.6 Mbits/sec, which should look amazing.

And, the low light performance looks  [read more →]