NEWS
RATWORKS
CVP
VISUAL FEAST From a mega stand packed with kit and demos like CVP, to small upstarts like Ratworks showing off their wares, BSC Expo is a great place to be inspired and check out the latest in cinema tech
IDEA VISION
DEDO
RED
but pricey combo that has been used to shoot lots of Hollywood blockbusters and big-money TV streaming shows. And it’s certainly the sort of kit you wouldn’t be balancing on your shoulder, even if you could afford the near-£100k all-in price tag to own one. Bring me sunshine! Dedolight’s DPB70 surely takes the award for the coolest-looking light at the show. This fixture, with its industrial aesthetic, is the largest of Dedo’s parallel beam lights, and is powerful enough to simulate strong daylight. It weighs 49.8kg/110lb, so you’ll be needing a suitably beefy stand in order to hold it, too. You can also add gels and grids to alter the light output, if you want. The system costs £12,940, but you need to add around £2796 for the ballast.
Products include the Rat Grips, Rat Hat, Rat Wedge, Rat Cube, Rat Rocker and – unexpectedly – Frog Clips. A Vision in green Sporting lederhosen and traditional Bavarian clothing, there’s no doubting where the staff of Idea Vision come from. The German company makes a massive range of vibration-reducing mounts and accessories to fix cameras to cranes, cars, trolleys, trailers or other moving vehicles. One such product is the Hybris head, which fixes a DJI Ronin onto a trailer cart. Red’s showstopper Red cameras always manage to pull a crowd, and none more so than this beefy 8K V-Raptor XL with an incredible Fujinon 80-250mm T2.9-3.5 Premista zoom fitted on the front. It’s the sort of high-quality
Also on the Vocas stand was Casecart, a hard case that turns into a production cart. Sigma’s classic cine prime Indie lens maker Sigma showed off its new 65mm T2.5 cine prime, in both standard and classic optical styles. As most of Sigma’s cine lenses come from the stills- based Art photo range, there was no 65mm optic. This being a traditional cine length, the Japanese company has now built one. Its classic style gives a softer, vintage look thanks to its lack of internal lens coatings. The Rat pack When a company is called Ratworks, you know the products are going to be edgy. It deals in camera accessories and rigs that look a bit cooler than most, and showing them mounted to a well-used Arri Alexa camera suits its style.
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