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Earlier this morning, after weeks of speculation and numerous specs leaks, Canon officially announced their highly anticipated EOS-1D X Mark II flagship DSLR. Engineered to put the ultimate combination of image quality, resolution and speed in the palm of photographers hands, the 1D X Mark II features a 20.2 Megapixel Full-Frame CMOS Sensor capable of 14 frames per second with full AF/AE tracking and 16 fps in Live View mode onto CFast and Compact Flash cards.

Announced at IBC 2015 last year, Anton Bauer's new CINE range of batteries for high-end digital cinema cameras such as ARRI ALEXA Mini, Panasonic Varicam 35 and RED Weapon are designed to be the safest and most durable mobile power solution for the modern professional cinematographer. Plus check out a crazy Litepanels Astra durability test that may surprise you.

The SmallHD 501 and 502 monitors have been really popular with handheld gimbal stabiliser operators and FS5 and FS7 owners. The units are really well built, feature incredible resolution and colour reproduction as well as a vast array of image monitoring functions such as Peaking, False Colour, Zebras and are the only monitors in this price range to support 3D LUTs for monitoring.

Sony just released the much-anticipated Firmware version 3.0 for the PXW-FS7 enabling key features such as 2K Centre Scan for Super 16mm lenses and B4 2/3 broadcast glass, movable focus magnification, improves Zebras, noise suppression in CineEI mode and more.

Sony just released the latest firmware update version 7.01 for their PMW-F5 and F55 cameras adding some highly anticipated features such as Quick Menu, improved Zebras, new simultaneous recording mode and BT.2020 colour space support on the F55.