Visual Impact Blog

This week we are featuring ARRI's LightNet software platform offering smart monitoring and remote management of broadcast studio networks, The Aputure 600x Pro bi-colour LED and Vaxis' new Cine 8 monitor with built-in wireless functionality.

This week we are featuring the new SUP 7.1 Beta release for the ARRI ALEXA Mini LF, The Fujinon SK35-700mm broadcast zoom lens and Wooden Camera's new ultra quick release articulating monitor mount.

Blackmagic ex-demo clearance - List of items currently available.

This week we are featuring ARRI's fifth generation handheld camera and lens control unit - the ARRI Hi-5, Sound Devices' A20 Mini high-end wireless transmitter and Blackmagic's Announcement of two new Studio Cameras and four new HyperDeck Studio models.

We talk to award-winning cinematographer Philip Lanyon CSC about his early career and his work on the sci-fi TV series Star Trek: Picard. We discover his love of the Star Trek series which began as a child, what attracted him to the film industry, his early years as an actor, how working as a Gaffer helped him when he became a DoP, the importance of his first film short Hiro which won Best Cinematography at the Leo awards and his work on the historical TV drama Frontier.