Year: 2019
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Sony Introduces Alpha 9 II Adding Enhanced Connectivity and Workflow for Professional Sports Photographers and Photojournalists
The new Alpha 9 II builds on the impressive legacy of the original Alpha 9, maintaining ground breaking speed performance including blackout-free continuous shooting[i] at up to 20 frames per second[ii] with Auto Focus and Auto Exposure tracking, 60 times per second AF/AE calculations[iii] while incorporating even more functionality driven directly from the voice of professionals. Updates include significantly enhanced connectivity…
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British-Australian social media influencers arrested in Iran after flying drone without permission
A British-Australian couple (she’s British – he’s Australian), left their jobs to create a travel channel where the aim was to show that there are no dangerous countries, but ended up trapped in a cell in Iran. The couple are now facing up to ten years in prison after being caught in July operating the…
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Top 5 Wedding Guest Photography DONT’S
Summertime means that wedding season is in full swing. The weather is ideal, hot days mean lovely indoor celebrations or awesome evening soirees, and Instagram gets flooded with jaw-dropping weddings photography. With an increasingly social media obsessed culture and taking a photo being as accessible as one’s phone, it’s very easy to commit a wedding…
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Samyang/Rokinon announces XEEN CF line: Compact, Lightweight, and Ready for 8K Cine Prime lenses
Samyang announced a brand new line of cinema lenses that are compact, lightweight, and carbon fiber-built, and designed to work with the latest 8K cinema cameras. The Xeen CF Professional Cine Lenses come with high-definition video compatibility, all in a lighter build. Samyang notes that this group is the first full-frame cine lens series to be…
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Atomos Announce 16bit RAW Support on New FX9 From Sony
After Sony unveiled their groundbreaking new FX9 today at IBC show, in Amsterdan, Atomos announced 16bit RAW support from this new camera to the Atomos Neon 8K MCU. The FX9, which will go to market towards to end of 2019, features an advanced 6K full-frame sensor and has been designed to give professional shooters greater flexibility and…
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New Hollyland Mars 400S HDMI/SDI Wireless transmitter
For all the filmmakers looking to work wirelessly, Hollyland has just launched a few days ago another consumer-grade product (AV) audio and video streaming the new Hollyland Mars400S. Being able to have a monitor wirelessly connected to the camera and your client can sit back, relax and give you a direct feedback about what’s going…
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Adobe adds Auto Reframe for Premiere Pro
Today, during IBC Show- Amsterdam, Adobe announced a new Adobe Sensei-powered feature “Auto Reframe” for Premiere Pro. It reframes and reformats video content using Adobe’s AI and machine learning technology. In the simplest terms, Auto Reframe adjusts your video clips so that the action of a scene is never out of frame, even when you…
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New Blackmagic URSA Broadcast Update
Blackmagic Camera 6.7 Update features a new de-mosaic algorithm that dramatically improves sensor response on URSA Broadcast cameras, resulting in better color fidelity and cleaner images. In addition, new sensor recalibration features improve the overall image quality by compensating for stuck pixels. Image gain controls can now be adjusted in ⅓ stop increments which gives customers finer…
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New Blackmagic Videohub Master Control Pro and Smart Control Pro
Videohub Smart Control Pro is different to traditional hardware router control panels that cost thousands of dollars and are limited to being installed in small numbers and then shared by all router users. Videohub Smart Control Pro is low cost, and features 48 RGB illuminated crystal look buttons that can be set to any router…
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New Blackmagic ATEM Mini (Special for Youtubers and Consumer Market)
One of the newest devices presented today by Blackmagic Design was the ATEM Mini, that makes it easy to create professional multi camera productions for live streaming to YouTube or innovative business presentations using Skype. It’s really focused on the consumer market but have powerful professional features Simply connect ATEM Mini and customers can switch…
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New Blackmagic Video Assist 12G HDR
Today Blackmagic presented the new Video Assist 12G HDR that adds professional monitoring and recording to any SDI or HDMI camera in all HD, Ultra HD, 2K and 4K DCI formats. (The price is in bottom of this article). The new improved design includes innovations such as brighter screens for HDR work, tally indicator, 4 built…
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New Blackmagic RAW 1.5 (IBC2019)
The new Blackmagic RAW 1.5 update includes Blackmagic RAW Speed Test which is now available on Windows and Linux for the first time. Blackmagic RAW Speed Test is a CPU and GPU benchmarking tool for testing the speed of decoding full resolution Blackmagic RAW frames on their system. Multiple CPU cores and GPUs are automatically detected…
