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Sony SxS memory for sale…One 16G card left (1st Feb 2012)

I have held onto this memory for long enough and now have one 16G Sony SxS card for sale. Price as follows…(Remember this is not the cheaper orange SxS memory) One Original SxS Sony PRO 16G cards £130 each plus £6 Special delivery Simple…...

Review of the Canon XF100 v Sony’s NX70 (Updated with new NR number 2)

Finally I get a chance to asses the Canon XF100 since I have just bought one. The camcorder has a lot of features packed into its small body and non more so than full broadcast CBR 50MB/s 4:2:2 (CBR=Constant bit rate), this wee chap is a lot bigger in ...

Will the NX70 compare with the Canon XF100 @ 4:2:2, 50MB/s

  Finally and not a day too soon I have my hands on the Canon XF100, build quality is very good in fact having a permanently attached handle does give me more confidence that my audio is not going to fail me some time in the future, more about tha...

Filming Sherlock…Interview with DP Fabian Wagner coming soon

JVC KY-1900 “Back to the Future” 1984

The JVC KY 1900 was an industrial camera in fact it was one of the few camcorders to be produced with a plastic orange body making it very distinctive, JVC brought this camera out during 1982. The KY-1900 had three saticon tubes which resolved around 4...

A look back to the 1980s coming soon

 

The Canon C300 Open Day at Malvern

Yesterday I took a jaunt down to Malvern to H Preston Media a company I do consultancy work for, to see the new Canon C300 Super 35mm camera. The pictures onto a Panasonic 65″ plasma TV were stunning, especially the macro shots of Andy Guests wat...

New Rode Mic with built in audio recorder

Integrated digital recorder (microSDHC) RF-bias, true condenser shotgun microphone (based on RØDE NTG3 technology) Line and Mic (mixer) inputs (with ‘plug-in’ power) High level headphone amplifier for monitoring Three-level High Pass Filte...

Come and see the Canon EOS C300 at H Preston Media

The metabones adapter for Canon EF to Sony E mount with full electronic control $399

A little known company from Canada has been hard at work developing this amazing Canon EF to Sony E adapter that allows the NEX range of cameras to control the iris and the image stabilisation on the Canon EF mount lenses. Metabones forms a strategic p...

New Nikon D4 multimedia features

From Nikon, here are the main video features of the D4: Full HD video recording – Users have the choice of various resolutions and frame rates, including 1080p 30/24fps and 60 fps at 720p. By utilizing the B-Frame data compression method, users c...

JVC showcase another 4K camcorder at CES 2012

JVC have gone 4K mad, not happy with the newly announced GY-HMQ10 4K camcorder JVC showcase a new un-named removable lens 4K camcorder. Dan Carr posted this interesting interview on Vimeo 4 days ago with JVCs Craig Yanagi. The camera has a Nikon G moun...