New 50mm f0.95 with Leica M mount due out September 2012
Hong Kong lens maker SLR Magic has announced the HyperPrime CINE 50mm T0.95 lens for the Leica M mount. The lens, which can be easily adapted for Micro Four Thirds or Sony NEX cameras, is designed for low light and shallow depth-of-field videography an...
A Happy New Year 2012 to you all !
I hope 2012 is a better year for all of us especially for our friends in Japan, so lets sit back and welcome the New Year and hope for some stunning camcorders during 2012 plus the odd firmware update for FS100, NX70 and FCP-10.
The late Kevin O’Malley of JVC Professional
Such sad news, Kevin passed away in his sleep last Wednesday evening (28th December 2011) and leaves his loving wife and two very loving daughters. I must have known Kevin for over 20 years and what a character, full of life and a good joke or t...
3 Products of 2011
I have decided this year to give three products I personally bought a special mention for their usefulness and good design qualities. Firstly I will start off with the Manfrotto 24 LED light that I picked up for £69 in my local Jessop store, it...
The Last Burning Embers of 2011
2011 will be remembered for all the wrong reasons, a giant earthquake near Japan causing untold death and disruption to the Japanese lifestyle, then to compound things even further floods in Indonesia later on the same year caused many video and phot...
A Year with Large Sensor cameras
As I write my Sony FS100 is tucked away in her Kata bag ready for the next job, its been a funny old year and I will share my experiences with you using various large sensor video cameras. January : My Panasonic AF101 arrived after first seeing ...
The need for more cameras…Why ?
We seem to be witnessing a new trend of having more than one camera, especially large sensor cameras, I asked Alister Chapman why he needed a Canon C300 when he already had two Sony F3s. Alister “I purchased my first pro camera and recorder back ...
Merry Christmas from HD Warrior
What a year for new cameras…fourteen to be precise and what about large sensor cameras, the Panasonic AF101, Sony FS100, F3, REDs Scarlet and the Canon C300. I think like the majority of us Canon was going to bring out a £10K and a £6K Super 35...
14 Cameras in one year Part TWO
We are fast approaching June 2011 when HD Warrior reported their one millionth hit, H Preston Media had its first open day in Glasgow, I produced a music video called Insecure using the Sony FS100 and Final Cut Pro 10 became the first Apple product t...
14 New Cameras in one year (Part One)
What recession and do we remember an earthquake in Japan during January that brought video manufacturing to a stand still…what a year and unbelievably 14 new camcorders were produced last year alone. I take my hat off to the men and women of the ...
