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Wireless video monitoring solution makers Paralinx just announced their 2nd generation Paralinx Tomahawk transmitters. The compact Tomahawk2 system has a wide coverage range of 2000 feet (around 600 meters) and can maintain a latency of less than 1 ms, which is more than impressive.

The latest software update 12.5.4 for one of the industry standard pro colour grading suites - Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve Studio adds support for the Touch Bar on the latest Apple MacBook Pro, mp3 decoding on Windows, support for the CR2 Raw still files from the Canon 5D Mark IV and more.

After months of rumours and anticipation, Panasonic finally unveiled their top end Micro Four Thirds Lumix GH5 camera at the CES 2017 convention in Las Vegas. The Panasonic GH5 takes off where the GH4 left off, and now includes 4K/60p capture, a first for a camera of its class, and also another world's first - 10bit 4:2:2 capture in 4K at 24p to SD cards.

Blackmagic Camera Update 4.2 is the latest firmware for the popular Blackmagic Design URSA Mini 4.6K camera, which now includes black shading calibration. In addition, the Blackmagic Video Assist and Video Assist 4K get firmware 2.3.1, which functionality with the 3D LUT interface.

You may recall that a few months ago, Sony released the highly anticipated Firmware 8.0 for their Sony PMW-F5 and Sony PMW-F55 cameras. However, it is worth nothing that unlike conventional previous firmware updates this firmware is serial numbers specific meaning that certain F5 and F55 cameras within a serial number range cannot perform the upgrade.