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IBC SHOW
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Here are the coolest things we spotted at Europe’s biggest filmmaking show, the IBC in Holland I f you want to see the latest and greatest in the world of filmmaking, the annual IBC show at Amsterdam’s sprawling Rai Convention Centre is the place to be. It’s the biggest show in Europe catering for all aspect of filmmaking, from kit and rigs to broadcast trucks and television studios. Lots of professional filmmakers and cinematographers get together to participate in seminars and workshops, and check out the latest and greatest kit. Of course, there are lots of services and kit aimed at TV, broadcast and live streaming, but there is also a lot there for independent filmmakers. WORDS ADAM DUCKWORTH
in quality, a range of Leitz primes and zooms. The primes are available in 18- 180mm focal lengths, with all but the longest lens being a T1.8; the 180mm is T2. And for zooms, there are the 25- 75mm and 55-125mm T2.8 lenses. All these come in PL mount and LPL with the Cooke/i metadata interface. These cover the big, 46.5mm image circle for VistaVision-size, large-format cameras. Prices are on application.
Legendary German lens giant Leica had its full range of glass on show, at prices that are equally famous for being very expensive. There’s the range of M-mount primes called the M 0.8, from 21 to 90mm and based on M-mount photo lenses. The Thalia range comprises fully-specced cine primes from 24-180mm, for full-frame cameras that have a distinctly softer, characterful look. And, for the ultimate
Leica zooms target the same high-end market as the Fujinon Premista zooms, such as this 80-250mm T2.9-3.5 mounted on a Sony Venice full-frame camera. The lens stays at T2.9 until 200mm, then ramps up slowly to T3.5 at the long end. The price is around 40k, in U.S. dollars or pounds.
This year the biggest stars of the show were the new breed of high-resolution and full-frame cameras, from Sony FX9 to the Panasonic S1H, Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K and Sigma fp. We have hands-on with all these stars in this issue, plus the Canon EOS C500 Mark II, which attracted the fans as it was displayed in a glass case with all its modular parts that turn it into a full broadcast camera.
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