This is the first time Canon has named a series of lenses: “ Sumire” (“Soo-me-ray”) is a Japanese word for “flower”, “purity”, or lovely”.
The post NAB 2019: Things ‘n’ Stuff appeared first on ProVideo Coalition.Ĭanon announced the Sumire Prime lenses in April: seven full-frame cinema primes designed to add “a unique artistically pleasing look with gentle and beautiful skin tones and smooth bokeh” to Canon’s lens line. If it had been at the LVCC, Rollasole would own the place!ĭisclosure: There is no current material relationship between me and any of the companies covered (though in the past I worked for Sound Devices on the design and coding of the PIX-E monitor/recorders, now sadly discontinued, squeezed out by Atomos on the low end and Convergent Design on the high end: o tempora, o mores!), and nobody offered any compensation in return for favorable coverage. That’s a BIG spool of cable This Pathé Brothers camera, seen at the ASC booth, is about 100 years old Black Bear showed this alien invasion: a flashback to the Burbank Fry’s, perhaps? If you need an audio connector - ANY audio connector - try Switchcraft Has Lectrosonics actually tested with a Stomposaurus? This dispenser was at my hotel.
Now, for a mere $299, you can have that same sound today - just like you did back in 1995. The VX1000 - one of the first 3-chip DV camcorders - was the canonical skateboard-video camera of its day, and the midtone-heavy, somewhat compressed sound it recorded (optimized for its 32 kHz, 12-bit audio format) became associated with the skate-vid genre. Wooden Camera featured their VX microphone, a self-powered mic designed to recreate the sound of the Sony DCR-VX1000’s built-in mic. If that’s not enough, additional control surfaces can be connected, wired or wirelessly, and if 36 tracks won’t do, you can gang two Scorpios together. Sound Devices Scorpio Sound Devices Scorpio
Each channel trim pot (and the transport control knob) is surrounded by a multicolor LED, which indicates that channel’s status (on, off, soloed, muted, etc.) as well as level. Sound Devices showed the Scorpio, a 36-track, 32-channel mixer/recorder with 12 channels directly controllable from the front panel. PRG process stage How it appears on-camera Not all the displays need to be high-res Scorpio mixer/recorder This isn’t a new idea, but as the panels and video scalers become more readily available, this sort of work becomes less of a science project and more of a turn-key service. It’s simpler than loading the car on a process trailer and driving ’round the city. PRG showed a process stage using LED video-wall panels to surround a car with live video. OEYE-3G: large buttons on flat top make control easy The two “horns” protect cables from bashes Process shots without a trailer It accepts 1080/60p on SDI and up to 4K/24P or UHD/30P on HDMI.
The $1199 OEYE-3G uses a full HD OLED panel and offers LUTs, a monochrome WFM, false color, zebras, anamorphic desqueeze, and more.
BM5: Touchscreen controls as well as hardwired buttons BM5 showing multiple ‘scopes red focus assist signal NP-series battery power or external DC HDMI and SDI.
The $399 BM5 has a 2000 nit touchscreen, remote-control cables allowing that touchscreen to control a variety of cameras, LUTs, a comprehensive selection of ‘scopes, dual-color zebras, plus grids, markers, anamorphic desqueeze, and all the usual monitoring tools. Half the ARRI booth was given over to a demonstration of live multicam production using ARRI camera with fiber adapters.Ĭhinese company PortKeys showed two interesting new products, the BM5 field monitor and the OEYE-3G EVF. Shop Now This is a 15mm lens for full-frame: quite wide Behind-the-lens filters / split diopters / nets for the Signature Primes Canon Sumire (soo-me-ray) primes: PL mount, large-format, with added character wide-open There are so many formats to cover, Leitz had a cheat sheet printed on their booth ARRI multicam