Fantastic a lens that you can stick onto your Panasonic GH1 and film in almost zero lighting conditions.
This is an example taken by David Leggett and is a cracking example of what this lens can achieve .
WEB ADDRESS….http://noktor.com/products.php
A complete hardware package enabling you to turn an iPhone into a teleprompter (phone not included).
iPhone slots into a custom-made mounting plate to hold it securely in position beneath the broadcast quality prompter glass. This mount can be fitted in landscape or portrait mode.
The custom-made iPhone prompting plate can also be mounted in a straight-read configuration beneath the camera. When teamed with the optional pistol grip this is an ultra-lightweight, portable solution.
The remainder of the teleprompter hardware is the same as the SSP7 & QStart prompting package.
Designed to be used with the teleprompting software available for download from the iPhone App Store. Please note that this software is not designed or licensed by Autocue or QTV.
In reference to an article I wrote a few days ago you can find it here…
http://www.hdwarrior.co.uk/2010/01/03/the-future-of-the-hd-dslr-in-2010/
The next-generation SDXC (eXtended Capacity) memory card specification has been announced at CES and promises to further seal the demise of videotape as the preferred storage medium for consumer and professional video acquisition as media card capacities rise and prices drop.
The new SDXC specification provides up to 2TB (2 terabytes) storage capacity and accelerates SD interface read/write speeds to 104MB/s (megabytes per second) this year, with a road map to ultimately deliver 300MB/s.
The SDXC specification, developed by the SD Association leapfrogs memory card interface speeds while retaining the world-leading SD interface.
SDXC is also the first memory card specification to provide 2TB storage without hindering the high-speed performance necessary for high-end photography and HD video recording.
The SDXC specification uses Microsoft’s exFAT file system to support its large capacity and interoperability in a broad range of PCs, consumer electronics and mobile phones. The exFAT system was designed for increased compatibility with flash media, from portability of data to interoperability with multiple platforms and devices on removable media.
My good friend Alister Chapman is a pioneer in 3D video productions but as far as I can make out a lot of work goes into making it all happen. Sony and Panasonic have chased us for over 2 years convincing us to go down the HD route now I see similar tactics with 3D television.
This is about the 3rd time round for 3D we have been promised this technology for years I remember seeing it demonstrated on “Tomorrows World” an early version of the “Gadget Show”. My second encounter with 3D was in the 1st Star Wars movie where Princess leia pops out of C3P0 in the middle of the Millenium Falcon.
3D wont take off till we get over the need for glasses, I and I am not alone would not sit watching my TV using polarised or otherwise glasses every night.
I can take 3D in small doses but until we get the real maCoy sitting in the middle of my living room that I can walk round and I don’t look like Joe 90…forget it.
Panasonic are brave introducing a $21,000 3D camcorder in this climate, I only wish the camcorder did not look so semi professional, plasticky with a dual lens stuck on the front. No doubt Sony, JVC, Canon and RED are working on their versions of 3D in fact RED have shown a version of their 3D camera already.
OK so once again this looks like a Photoshop job but it looks cool and if implemented into Scarlet would have all the information needed right in your viewfinder.
Thanks to Ben Cain/HD Cinema and originally Graeme Nattress for this picture.
Isn’t it strange that I should be the “only” one supposedly sailing against the tide of let’s all go out and spend the best part of £3K on equipment to make film like movies, when I have actually got a 5Dmk11 but heaven forbid I bought this camera for photography not for filming with.
I produce corporate videos for a living so my best, most expensive piece of kit is strangely enough a Sony EX-3 camcorder, I am also a professional photographer and have the ability to switch kit now and again…recently I switched from a Nikon D3 to a Canon 5Dmk11.
What I am trying to tell you in a round about way is that I am of the older school although I am fully committed to digital…be it video or photography. It has taken almost two hard years to work out a workflow for my SxS card system all be it MxR card holders using SDHC cards. I was all for solid state…bring it on, till it arrived and scared the pants off me…no archive or should I say “not as we know it , Jim”. (One for the Trekies).
Two years later I am happy with my lot… then, we get all this talk about the saviour of the budget film industry…hooraah…we can all make films now all you need is an SLR that has been frigged to take HD video footage but again in a format that needs converting.
I have won the lottery I own such a camera, I too can make film like movies and maybe save a buck or two and get rid of the EX-3…………………..till I take stock.
I decided to test this phenomenon myself getting the odd tip from the master himself Philip Bloom, after all Phil seemed to have thrown away his expensive video kit and travel round the world filming solely with the Canon 5Dmk11 so their must be some mileage in this.
Sadly unlike Mr Bloom I have decided not to embrace my HD video 5Dmk11 and use it for it’s intention…a photographic camera.
I have tried very hard to see the benefits of using the HD SLR as a video camera but the negatives far outweigh the positives…it has taken me two years to be happy with tapeless and embrace HD as a format…as a video cameraman I am happier using equipment that is fit for purpose than to use a camera that gives me more problems than it solves.
HD SLRs are in my opinion a sad reflection of todays society who want everything in the one small package, a cost cutting exercise for both video and photography…spilt 50-50 down the middle…we all know what dilution does to any business.
My son has just started his own blog called theFootyBlog.net give him some traffic if you are interested in football.
Remember the day’s not so long ago when you could wonder into WH Smith’s and get What Video, Camcorder User, What Digital Camcorder, What Camcorder, Camcorder Buyer HD Ready and so on, I looked on WH Smith’s shelves for over 10 minutes today to discover ONE camcorder magazine…loads about digital SLRs !
The only magazine left seems to be What Video & Hi Def which is a shame, the one thing about a train or car journey was buying all the video magazines and looking forward to reading them on the journey.
Is it a sign of the recession…who knows or maybe blogs like this one have played a part in the death nell of the written word, I hope not, but whatever the reason we will be less richer without these magazines, that’s for sure.
