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I t’s snow joke when you’ll never fir-get by lining up some pressies you won’t be re-gifting by Boxing Day. So, if you keep getting asked what you would like for Christmas – or simply to treat yo’elf to something new – take a look at our list of ice-cool kit that’s just tree-mendous. 1 Aputure Electro Storm XT26 £TBC Aputure’s Electro Storm XT26 is one of the most powerful COB lights to hit the market. It’s a 2600W point-source LED with white CCT and tint control. It has dual accessory mounts, plus professional connectivity, green-magenta selecting the right gifts. So Pro Moviemaker is here to make Christmas one tint adjustment, advanced liquid-cooling technology and an IP65 dust and water- resistant construction. At full power, the Electro Storm XT26 approaches the brightness of industry- standard 12,000W tungsten fresnels and 4000W HMIs, used for years in the highest- end film and TV productions. The Electro Storm XT26 features a powerful chipset built to maintain accurate colour throughout its CCT range, from 2700-6500K with a green-magenta colour correction of +/-0.05dUV shift between 3000K and 6000K. aputure.com 2 Astera Titan Tubes £771/$850 The Astera Titan Tube was one of the first truly professional LED tube lights – and it still delivers with its rugged build and pro feature set. This is a high-tech LED tube that emits powerful and tunable white light with ultra-high colour rendering, as well as coloured light, which can be applied to individual pixels or to the whole tube. As it only weighs 1.35kg/3lb for a 1035mm/40.7in long tube, and is 43.mm/1.7in in diameter, it is easy to mount. It comes with a floor-mounted stand to allow the tube to be positioned vertically, two eyebolts to hang the light with wire or cable and
7 Fujifilm X-H2S £2379/$2499 Fujifilm’s powerful and rapid X-H2S brings all the latest features found on flagship full-frame cameras to more affordable APS-C mirrorless. High-quality, high-bit-rate internal 10-bit 4:2:2 All-Intra codecs are available at a huge range of frame rates and the colours are very natural. The X-H2S is one of the best-value and most capable cameras for video on the market. It has a stacked sensor and the viewfinder view is uninterrupted, making it a great machine for high-speed stills. Action, news and wildlife shooters love it due to the reach of the smaller sensor. It builds on Fujifilm’s unique X-Trans colour filter array that minimises moiré and false colours. Having the sensor’s circuitry on a separate layer from the pixels delivers outstanding image quality thanks to expanded low-light capabilities and up to 14 stops of dynamic range. fujifilm-x.com 8 Irix 45mm T1.5 £1065/$1195 The Irix Cinema range might be a relatively low-budget entry point to cine lenses, but the build quality is amazing and there are some great features like a magnetically attached lens hood. The full-frame Irix cine lenses are smooth to focus, breathe very little and the cinematic look you get from shooting the 45mm lens wide open is stunning. External features include a 95mm front diameter, 0.8 MOD gears, luminous focus marks in feet or metres, and a detachable 1/4in-20 support foot. Internally, nine blades produce smooth, rounded bokeh and five seals protect against weather. To help eliminate aberrations and distortion, the 45mm T1.5 Cine Lens is constructed with 11 optical elements in nine groups including four HR (high- refractive index) and three ED (extra-low dispersion) elements in all. irixlens.com
two metal holders to secure the tube to a truss section. It also comes in an eight-light kit in a protective hard case for the serious gaffers out there. astera-led.com 3 Atomos Ninja Ultra £809/$799 The new Atomos Ninja Ultra has a completely overhauled operating system that’s designed to be cleaner and faster, and it delivers a host of new features including More codecs now come as standard, including 6K ProRes Raw, ProRes, DNxHD as well as H.265, which was previously available as a paid option. The Ninja Ultra is built to get the most out of camera- to-cloud technology, ideal for cinematic workflows with the Atomos Connect system. It can record up to 8K and full-quality files in ProRes Arri false colour and new scheduled playback and recording tools. Raw up to 4K/60p while simultaneously recording HD/60p to H.265. It also supports automatic matching filenames, timecode and record triggering on Arri, Canon and Red cameras. Even more cameras will be supported very soon. atomos.com 4 Blackmagic Cinema Camera 6K from Holdan £2543/$2595 Top British distributor Holdan supplies equipment from many of the best manufacturers in the industry. This includes, among others, Samyang, Panasonic, SmallHD, Teradek and Blackmagic Design. So whatever you need, you’ll be well covered. If you are searching for an affordable full-frame camera then take a look at the new Blackmagic Cinema Camera 6K, which has a 24x36mm 6K sensor and a built-in optical low-pass filter to cut down moiré. The native resolution of 6048x4032 allows for a shallow depth-of-field, or to employ anamorphic lenses uncropped for a true cinematic look. There is dual native ISO up to 25,600 for impressive low-noise images and frame rates go up
36fps at full sensor resolution or 120fps windowed. The camera boasts 13 stops of dynamic range, an L-Mount lens mount and dual native ISO up to 25,600 with recording to CFexpress cards. It also allows simultaneous Blackmagic Raw and H.264 proxy recording for cloud workflows. holdan.co.uk 5 Canon EOS R100 with RF-S 18-45mm lens £670/$549 The Canon EOS R100 body with an RF-S 18-45mm kit lens features a 24.1-megapixel APS-C sensor with Dual Pixel CMOS CF, Digic 8 processor, 4K resolution in 25p video, with Full HD up to 60p or HD up to 120p. There is built-in Movie Digital IS, Vertical Movies and a Movie Digest function, where the camera creates two- to four-second video clips every time a shot is taken and then compiles these into a motion sequence. It’s compatible with the Canon Camera Connect app to allow for remote shooting, and there is both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity. The EOS R100 weighs just 356g, features a 5-pin hotshoe, a 2.36-million-dot EVF with 60fps refresh rate and three- If you fancy browsing the ultimate camera equipment store and also taking in the sights of London at Christmas time, then you must take a trip to the brand-new CVP flagship shop in historic Fitzrovia. Just a stone’s throw away from the major shopping streets of the West End, the uber-cool venue has all the latest cameras and lenses in stock. And you can get a real feel for them rather than just browsing specs on a website. CVP has lots of experts on hand to give help and advice on what could work for your business needs. And you could even book up for a workshop or seminar as there is often something going on at CVP. cvp.com inch fixed LCD with 1.04- million-dot resolution. canon.co.uk 6 CVP £Various
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