IBC 2016

At IBC 2016, AutoScript demoed their latest feature called Voice Plus, which is a revolutionary way of controlling the scroll speed of your teleprompter with just the speed of your voice, without the need for wired/wireless controllers.

This year, IBC 2016 was not short on new lens announcements, that's for sure. However, one of the most anticipated and hottest announcements from the show came from Japanese lens maker SIGMA, who up until now have been manufacturing primarily photographic lenses. At IBC 2016 in Amsterdam, Sigma announced they will release a new lineup of cine lenses including primes and zoom lenses in early 2017.

At IBC 2016, Atomos announced their flagship 4K/60p, CinemaDNG Raw and HDR monitor/recorder Shogun Inferno is shipping this month with some new amazing features including ARRIRAW & Panasonic HDR Raw recording, expanded PQ & HLG compatibility for playback to HDR screens & wider support from editing packages for mobile HDR editing. The company also announced they forged a partnership with renowned hard disk and backup solutions maker G-Technology by directly integrating the Atomos Master Caddy into the G-Technology ev Series workflow solutions.

Zeiss expands their award-winning Milvus family of prime lenses with three new focal lengths - two ultra-wide 15mm f2.8; a 18mm f2.8, which will surely make lots of landscape and architecture photographers happy and a telephoto 135mm f2.0 for portrait photographers.