FUJIFILM showed preliminary models of two new lenses in their NAB 2013 booth. On display was the new Premier PL 14-28mm Cabrio wide angle lens (model ZK2x14) – an ideal choice for close-up, ENG or Cine style shooting. The PL 14-28 offers a focal length of 14-28mm at T2.9, with 200-degree focus rotation. “The development [...]

Strummer, Viv, Misfit, Blacklight… What are they? Bright Tangerine matte boxes of course. The guys from Finner Knows Best managed to grab Rob from Bright Tangerine at NAB 2013 and they get a comprehensive run down on matte boxes. New this year is the swing away options for the Viv Bright Tangerine matte box. Please [...]

If you are going to showcase what your camera company is, does, and can do, then BANG RED Digital Cinema nailed that brief. The RED NAB 2013 Showreel is a slow cooker with all the meaty goodness. There are some really tasty bits in this RED NAB showreel especially towards the end. Keen for more? [...]

NAB 2013 is done and dusted and those on the R&D and product side of it now get to take away the positives and the negatives and work on them for another 12 months where they will do it all again. Jim Jannard popped up on RECON over at REDUser and gave his thoughts on [...]

Carl Zeiss Lenses took their complete portfolio of glass to NAB. That’s crazy right! That range of lenses consists of more than 70 lenses. Carl Zeiss brought along the ARRI/ZEISS Master Prime series and the Ultra Prime lenses as well as the Compact Prime CP.2, Compact Zoom CZ.2 and SLR lenses. For more information about [...]

I really enjoy seeing Red’s Ted pop up in interviews at trade shows. You could almost conduct a drinking game on how his voice is holding up. Emmanuel Pampuri rips apart the RED Booth at NAB 2013 and grabs a slightly husky Ted Schilowitz for a run down on all things RED. Thanks Emmanuel for [...]

Broadcast and cine trade shows like NAB need smoke and mirrors to get the folks in and product out the door… Luckily ARRI played their part and cracked out this cool showreel… as well as their cameras and professional camera accessories. ALEXA Showreel NAB 2013 from ARRI Channel on Vimeo. Keen for more? Well you [...]

At the Sony NAB 2013 launch event right at the very end of the hour long presentation Alec Shapiro President of Professional Solutions America introduced Toshihiko Ohnishi who is the Deputy President of Sony’s Professional Services Group in Japan. Toshihiko talked for about three minutes on what Sony called “Our vision for the future.” They [...]

Those that bought an ARRI Alexa camera three years ago should have been rewarded many times over with that investment. Well now ARRI are rewarding Alexa owners by announcing that they can purchase some of the key components of the new ALEXA XT camera with the XR Module upgrade path. The ARRI Alexa XR Module [...]