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Element Technica V-Dock

June 24th, 2009 steinar No comments

vmountClever way to use V-mount on other stuff!
Element Technica gives you a way to attach V-mount equipment on either 15mm or 19mm rods with V-Dock. The ISO Plate also gives you a way to attach RED-RAM or other drives to a V-mount adapter.dm-main

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Top 3 from Sony at NAB

April 27th, 2009 steinar 2 comments

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1) Cinemon! That’s the name of the QuickTime MXF component that enables Final Cut Pro to speak Sony OP1A MXF! Joining the likes of MXF4MAC & Calibrated, Cinemon is only restricted by only being released in North America for the time being. This of course to satisfy a large American news organization’s needs for MXF on FCP timelines…

2) SRW-9000. Finally Sony has been able to cram a HDCAM SR recorder inside a camcorder and possible been able to power it on batteries! With a dynamic range that would make every RED owner red with envy, this camera is designed to be a successor to the old HDCAM 900 camera.

SONY SRW-9000

SONY SRW-9000

3) PDW-F800. As a low-end SRW-9000, PDW-F800 is branded with CineAlta and 24P capabilities. IMX50 and other options of the PDW-700 camera is built in the F800. In order to get those pictures out, Sony has introduced a deck to accompany the camera, the PDW-F1600.

Top 3 from Pana at NAB

April 25th, 2009 steinar No comments

AVC Ultra was released. We were sort of wondering where the 150mbit version of AVCIntra, that some of us have seen some years ago, had gone. Then the VBR codec at 200mbit+ called AVCUltra turned up with little or none warnings thru other channels.
AVCUltra story at www.panasonic.com

hpx301_formats_450x250HPX-301 was released a bit before NAB, but is still quite significant. All though only 1/3 inch CMOS, the package is quite bulky. My guess is that the 20-bit processing draws half the 18 watts the camera uses. Therefore it would be impossible to make it a small camera, instead, it’s a shoulder camera with poor low-light performance but with brilliant imageprocessing.
HPX-301

P2 cards at sensible prices! OK, we have been waiting a while for this one… Pana changes some tech gear and say now slash prices to 1/3 of previous prices. There is some more to this story, but the general feel of it is: We’ve been screwing you for 5 years, but now Sony released EX1/EX3 last year, so we have to do something!
New not-so-much-of-a-rip-off-P2-cards!

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