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- SmallHD Ultra 7 Monitor
- ZEISS Nano Primes (NP) – E-mount
- RED V-RAPTOR [X] & V-RAPTOR XL [X]
- Cooke SP3 on Sony FX3
- Maxime Cointe on Lupin Season 3
- Blackmagic URSA Mini Pro 12K OLPF
- Blackmagic Cinema Camera 6K – L Mount
- SIGMA L-Mount DG DN Lenses
- SIGMA Headquarters in Kawasaki, Japan
- Canon CN-R RF Mount Cine Lenses
- Canon RF24-105mm F2.8 L IS USM Z
- Canon EOS R5 C
- ARRI 360 EVO Stabilized Remote
- Nanlux Wired Controller/FL-28 Fresnel
- DJI 8K Inspire 3
- DJI 8K Ronin 4D 8K
- Godox | Knowled MG2400Bi
- Cartoni Spinhead
- Laowa Pro2be
- Nikon Z 9
- Leitz ELSIE Primes
- Nikon Engineers Discuss the Z 8 Camera
- Fujifilm GFX100 II
- C. Kim Miles, ASC, CSC on The Brothers Sun
- Cheng Seng Group
- Band Pro – Passing the Mic
- The Life of Trevor
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News
- Johan de Nysschen, ARRI Americas CEO & Pres.
March 28, 2024, Munich. Johan de Nysschen has been appointed President and CEO of ARRI Americas Inc. He will also be responsible for ARRI Rental North America and Illumination Dynamics—and reports directly to Matthias Erb, Chairman of the Executive Board at ARRI. read more... - Andrew Tiffen named President of Tiffen Co.New York, March 15. Andrew Tiffen (at right, above) has been named President and COO of The Tiffen Company. He is responsible for the operations of the company, including manufacturing, marketing, sales, R&D and Product Development.
Steven Tiffen will remain as Chairman and CEO.
The company's brands include Tiffen Filters, Steadicam, Lowel, DOMKE, Davis & Sanford, Stroboframe and Zing. read more...
- Cine Gear NY 2024It was a beautiful, warm spring day for a walk to the opening of Cine Gear Expo exhibits in Industry City. And there are many other choices of where to get off and take a subway, cab or car service.
Here's a brief slideshow of the exhibits in Box Factory Hall, an 1900s historic industrial space with massive windows and gorgeous available daylight. read more...
- Cooke DigitalCooke Optics creates a new business unit to develop software-enabled products for post-production, VFX, animation and gaming.
Cooke has launched a new Cooke Digital business unit. Jordan Thistlewood (photo above) will be Managing Director of Cooke Digital.
This is a logical progression of Cooke’s /i Technology, an industry standard lens metadata protocol. In the past year, Cooke introduced Near Real-Time post-production capability in partnership with EZtrack, and explored other opportunities to extend Cooke’s role across the increasingly convergent creative markets of live action capture, animation and gaming. read more...
- Band Film & Digital EuropeBAND PRO FILM & DIGITAL INC. REOPENS EUROPEAN OFFICE
Band Pro Film & Digital Inc., located in Hollywood, has been supplying the production industry with high-quality cameras, lenses and new technology for 40 years. This reopening of a new branch in Europe is a continuation of Band Pro's expansion.
Band Film & Digital Europe GmbH is located in Hohenbrunn, near Munich. read more...
- Nikon acquires RED"HOLLYWOOD (March 6, 2024) – RED Digital Cinema (RED.com, LLC) announced that it will be acquired by Nikon Corporation (Nikon). The agreement with Nikon, reached with RED's Founder Jim Jannard and President Jarred Land, signifies a new strategic partnership that brings together Nikon's history and expertise in product development, image processing, optical technology and user interface, with RED's innovative digital cinema cameras and technologies."
Flashback to NAB in April 2006. FDTimes wrote, "Customers were holding a $1000 casting with serial number representing a refundable reservation for a RED One Camera. read more...
- BSC Expo Feb 2024BSC Expo 2024 exhibitors enjoyed 14-degrees-globally-warmed weather during setup days. Flowers blossomed in Battersea Park. The grass was a super-saturated green you probably would have dialed out in a grading suite. This being London, temperatures dropped, the clouds sputtered and a fresh 20-25 mph westerly breeze blew down the Thames in time for BSC Expo VIP and visitor days, Feb 15-17. Opening day was as packed as the Lexington Subway Line in New York at rush hour. It was a great, big, really busy expo. read more...
View All NewsFactory Tours
- SmallHD Factory TourImagine the inducements to visit SmallHD in Cary, North Carolina. Haute cuisine and haute technology, not in that order. For sure, we’re here to explore the high technology of SmallHD.
It’s an easy 2-hour flight from New York’s newly renovated La Guardia Airport to Raleigh-Durham. You’re in Research Triangle territory and the campuses of Duke, UNC-Chapel Hill, and NC State University. Apple, Google, Toyota, IBM, Cisco, Amazon, Epic Games, Qualcomm and Red Hat are among the many high-tech companies neighboring high-tech SmallHD. read more...
- Cooke Tour 2020This was my 4th tour of Cooke Optics in Leicester, England. The factory has come a long way since previous visits in 2006, 2009 and 2013. It is now a state-of-the-art, modern facility with clean rooms, the latest machines, and many more technicians. As Les Zellan described it, “The glass manufacturing area is cleaner and neater and there are many... read more...
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- Cooke Gallery London
"The wand chooses the wizard, remember...I think we must expect great things from you." Stepping into the Cooke Gallery in Fitzrovia, London immediately conjures up Ollivander's Wand Shop of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. The lens chooses the Cinematographer...no doubt about it. Wizards and filmmakers alike can step into this magical space on Newman Street. Enter into a museum-like gallery with large video displays and photographs. The current exhibition is all about Focus. Pick up a pair of headphones paired with moving images on the wall for examples of deep focus, shallow depth of field, rack focus, and more. read more... - ZEISS Nano PrimesZEISS launches Nano Primes: Full Frame, fast (T1.5), lightweight and compact cine lenses. They have nice ZEISS notoriously accurate lined focus scales and marks and are amazingly affordable.
Download the free FDTimes 20-page NP PDF Special Report
excerpted from the February 2024 FDTimes edition, going online and on paper shortly.
There are 6 focal lengths in the set: 18mm, 24mm, 35mm, 50mm, 75mm, and 100mm.
Nano Primes come in E-mount. What, not PL or LPL? read more...
- RED V-RAPTOR [X] & V-RAPTOR XL [X] Global ShutterRED DIGITAL CINEMA announced new V-RAPTOR [X] 8K VV and V-RAPTOR XL [X] 8K VV cameras. Both models now have Full Frame VV global shutter sensors.
RED introduced global shutter in October 2020 on the KOMODO which has a Super35 global shutter. With a global shutter, all the photosites of the sensor are exposed simultaneously. A global shutter is good when you're filming fast movement or explosions, fire, flashes, strobes, stunt sequences and even handheld work. With a rolling shutter, you might get artifacts from flashes, skewing and bending of objects. read more...
- Sony FX3 and Wooden Camera Accessories
Once upon a time, FDTimes wrote, "The Sony FX3 camera's cage-free design begs you to mount it anywhere—in all kinds of places where a single mounting point wouldn’t dare to thread. FX3 is free to range almost everywhere because it is small, light and ergonomic. I should have expected that calling it “cage-free” implied you don’t need a cage, and that is like asking a child not to jump in the nearest puddle. Of course there would be a cage and clever accessories—and they are now here from Wooden Camera.
read more... - SmallHD Ultra 7 MonitorThe new SmallHD Ultra 7 Monitor has buttons to summon up shortcuts. Weatherproof for bad weather. Rubber bumpers to endure mayhem. Joystick for when sticky craft-service donut-encrusted fingers don't want to touch the touchscreen.
Ultra 7 has a 1920x1200 Quantum Dot LED Edge-Lit LCD Display that is extremely bright (2300 nits). It has 6G SDI and HDMI 2.0 in and out, up to 4K 60p. It can be powered by Gold or V-Mount batteries, or external power. read more...
- ARRI 360 EVO Stabilized Remote HeadARRI has launched the 360 EVO, the third iteration of their 3-axis stabilized remote heads. It has 360-degree rotation of the roll axis (and the pan axis), heavier duty construction (payloads up to 30 kg), and more remote control possibilities. It has a new, logical graphical user interface (GUI). Many accessories can be shared with the ARRI TRINITY 2. read more...
- ARRI TRINITY LiveTRINITY Live is an upgrade for ARRI's original 3-axis vest-mounted camera stabilizer. It includes new hardware, wiring, and connections intended mainly for live, multi-camera and broadcast productions. read more...
- Leica Cine 1 ProjectorFar-off adventures and family trips were inevitably followed by a slide show at home. It was a ritual. Adman Mad Man Dad would set up his latest Leica Pradovit slide projector, unfurl a large retractable Da-Lite screen, dim the lights and let the show begin. Leitz/Leica Pradovit projectors were familiar fixtures for many years. It was a given that Leitz Elmarit lenses were major contributors to the luminous images sliding in the dark. read more...
- Leitz ELSIE 125mm T2.1Leitz ELSIE lenses cover Full Frame +, from 15mm to 150mm, all T2.1. Designed and produced at Leitz Park in Wetzlar, Germany, ELSIE primes have the familiar Leitz and Leica warmth, resolution, look and smooth skin tones. ELSIE primes come in LPL mount. As with HUGO primes, ELSIE’s LPL 44mm flange depth enabled an advanced design and high performance at a reasonable price. read more...
- Ovide Octo 22″ & Koko 10″ Video AssistOvide Smart Assist Octo can record and monitor up to 8 HD camera outputs or 2 4K signals.
It has 24× SDI outputs. Ovide KOKO is a video assist recorder/monitor with a 10" super bright (1000 nits) and true color HD (1920×1080) HDR DCI-P3 Touchscreen, 12G-SDI in/out, and it can record 4× 1080p60 cameras or 1× 4K in ProRes onto a removable SSD. read more...
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