Visual Impact Blog

SmallHD have just released details of their latest firmware update for their brand new monitors - the 500 series, including the HDMI based 501, and the HDMI/SDI SmallHD 502. Firmware 2.0 allows users to downstream a custom Look Up table to another monitor - such as a directors monitor or another monitoring device, in addition to HDMI/SDI cross conversion on the 502 model.

PIX-E5 includes an impressive suite of monitoring tools, such as TapZoom™, for unrivalled focusing speed, false colors and zebras to help set exposure, guide markers for framing, and a range of scopes, including waveform, histogram, and vectorscope. The new camera-mount monitor incorporates a “best-of-both-worlds” user interface that combines easy-to-access tactile buttons with an intuitive touch screen.

Recently Panasonic invited filmmakers and DP's from all over the globe for their #DVX4KTour in Japan promoting their latest 4K camera - the long-awaited AG-DVX200, the successor to the hugely popular, and quite revolutionary for its day DVX100B.

Canon just introduced a very unique camera. The new ME20F-SH is a cube shaped multi-purpose camera, with a full-frame 35mm sensor, capable of delivering exceptionally high sensitivity to capture Full HD 1080p video with a maximum ISO sensitivity of over 4,000,000!

Canon recently commissioned a short film called "Connections" which was shot by DP Tim Arasheben on the Canon C500 in 4K via the Convergent Design Odyssey7Q+, rigging from Hollywood based Cinoflex, and shot on only one lens - the mighty Canon 50-1000mm T5.0-8.9 Cine Servo Zoom Lens.