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Why 120 FPS Is the Sweet Spot for HFR Shooting
As head of the Moving Picture Technologies department at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS) — home of the MP3 and H.264, among other crucial digital content creation technologies — you can imagine Siegfried Foessel has been taking a …
Sony Prices the F5, F55, and More
At a launch event last night in Los Angeles, Sony officially announced the U.S. prices for its upcoming F5 and F55 cameras and accessories, due in February 2013. Keep in mind that these are list prices. As resellers start announcing …
4K Cameras: What’s the State of the Art?
The Red One may have been the first high-res camera to take the film industry by storm but, when the history of digital cinematography is written, 2012 will be remembered as the year pictures got really big. By 2011, Red …
Directors Sarah Burns and David McMahon on The Central Park Five
Over the past decade, Ken Burns has become a polarizing figure in the documentary field, even as his PBS series have reached more viewers than any American documentarian besides Michael Moore. For many, his work has settled into a cozy …
Sony Details F65 Roadmap Heading into 2013
Along with the splashy announcement of the new F5 and F55 CineAlta 4K cameras came word of forthcoming firmware upgrades for Sony's flagship F65, including new signal formats to take advantage of its unique 8K x 2K sensor. First up, …
New Primes for Sony’s Newly Unveiled CineAlta 4K Cameras
Another reason to welcome the feature-gap-filling "future ahead of schedule" F55 and F5 CineAlta cameras announced today that Sony is aiming at music video, commercial and reality TV production: The company is also set to release the second-generation of its …
Sony Reveals F5 and F55 CineAlta 4K Cameras
Sony today announced two new CineAlta 4K motion picture cameras, the F5 and the F55, filling the gap in its CineAlta line-up between the $14,000 F3 and the high-end (around $85,000) F65. Both cameras use a new type of Super …
GoPro Hero2 Footage Now Ready for 24p Pipelines
Despite the mounting popularity of the go-anywhere GoPro Hero2 cameras for gathering b-roll and action footage on a variety of top-level projects, the lack of 24p and 35 Mbps support was still a serious obstacle for those in television and …
Review: Switronix TorchLED Bolt On-Camera Light
No product illustrates better the rapid evolution of lighting technology than the compact LED. This year director Ridley Scott is said to have lit Prometheus almost exclusively with LEDs, ample testimony to the inescapable fact that serious LED instruments have …
Sound Devices Adds 664 Production Mixer to Field Kit Range
Sound Devices has rounded out its line of portable production mixers with a new version that expands on the feature set inside the popular 552 Production Mixer. The new 664 Production Mixer comes with more input/output connectivity and recording options …