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CINE GEAR EXPO It was a great Cine Gear Expo for this magazine as we presented our first ever Tech Awards – but there was other news... SHOW NEWS
A rri ’s announcement of their Arri ensured a very excited booth in the main sound stage. Panasonic used the beautiful Paramount Theater to launch their latest S1H Lumix mirrorless derivative. The choice of the Cine Gear Expo was to point up the camera’s cinematic aspirations, especially as full-frame sensor cinematography is now the fashionable format for making movies and TV drama. The specs include a 6K performance at 24p but with an aspect ratio of 3:2. More cinema friendly is 5.9K/30p (16:9 aspect ratio), and 10-bit 60p 4K. There is also a 4:3 ratio to encourage anamorphic shooting. The camera has full implementation of V-Log and V Gamut which has been matched to Varicam 35 and the EVA-1 cameras. In the US there is unlimited recording time; not sure that’s the same in the EU. The camera has a target price of $4000 and should be available sometime this autumn. Sony announced it will be upgrading its Venice camera with a new Version 5.0 firmware update planned for January 2020. This new update will further enable cinematographers to shoot at speeds of up to 90fps at 6K 2.39:1 and 72fps at 6K 17:9/1.85:1. This enables Venice to capture three times slow-motion at 24p even in 6K. Cinematographers can utilise the same camera across multiple speeds, maintaining the full-frame shallow depth-of-field, as well Alexa Mini LF, quickly followed by news of their new S35mm 4K camera next year with a new sensor design,
The specs include a 6K performance at 24p but with an aspect ratio of 3:2 as the high picture quality of oversampling in 6K. Among the new products on display at Panavision was Light Iron’s new Link HDR system. Creatives are producing for HDR-capable distribution platforms more than ever before. Link HDR was developed to address the challenge of viewing HDR (high dynamic range) images throughout the production and post-production process. Offering HDR and SDR viewing options in tandem, Link HDR provides cinematographers, directors, editors and creative talent throughout the imaging chain with the ability to view their image at the same quality delivered to consumers. After 50 years almost fully dedicated to high-end zoom lens design and production, Angénieux presented at Cinegear LA the first prototypes of the complete set of high- end full-frame prime lenses – the Optimo Prime Series, in partnership with Band Pro Film & Digital, Inc and Jebsen Industrial Technology Co Ltd. The lenses have been designed to accurately match the look and feel of Angenieux’s Optimo zoom series both physically and optically. The Optimo Prime series of 12 lenses provides full-frame 46.5mm image circle coverage with a consistent 1.8 T stop (except on extremes). Available as PL and LPL they will support both Cooke/i and Arri LDS data capture.
IMAGES Not much sun at Cine Gear Expo but plenty of tech interest on the movie backlot
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