Pavotube 30C Mark II as well as the Aputure Infinibar. There has also been lots of innovation in memory cards and hard drives. With the new Type A CFexpress cards now coming in larger sizes and cheaper prices, the Angelbird AV Pro CFexpress Type A 1TB is the biggest, but also take a look at the Lexar Professional CFexpress Type A 160GB and Delkin Black 160GB CFexpress Type A. External hard drives – portable and desktop – continue to get faster and more affordable. The Samsung Portable SSD T7 Shield 4TB is rugged and fast, as is the Lacie Rugged SSD Pro and Sandisk Professional Pro- Blade SSD. Seagate Lyve Mobile – a radical system – uses rented drives on location, linked to cloud storage. Last but not least is editing software, with the usual Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro and latest version of Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve 18 Studio. But also consider Adobe’s Frame.io and Avid’s Stream IO which are cloud- based platforms to help sharing.
can be used for BRAW codecs; and check out the SmallHD Ultra 5 or DJI High-Bright Remote Monitor, too. Of course, investing in lighting makes sense and LEDs rule the roost. Choose from daylight, bicolour, RGB or even RGBLAC – and many can be controlled by an app to make things easier on-set. Plenty of filmmakers swear by light panels, but hard lights fuelled by the latest COB technology are breaking through. In the light panel class, Rotolight’s popular Titan X1 is popular, but look out for the Aputure Nova P600c, Litepanels Gemini 2x1 Hard and Astera Hydrapanel. For hard lights, the Aputure LS 600c Pro is powerful and full- colour, meanwhile the Nanlux Evoke 900C is the latest all-colour on the block, and the Hobolite Pro brings style to COB lighting. In the lighting innovation category, LED tube lights have expanded and many make our shortlist. The Astera Titan Tube is popular, but look at the Quasar Science Double Rainbow, Nanlite
LIGHT FANTASTIC There has been so much ingenuity in COB lights, like this Aputure LS 600c Pro
MEDIA MOGULS From memory cards to SSD drives, HDDs and online storage devices, vote for your choice of memory
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