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Lots of new kit, great workshops and many top cinematographers gathered at Battersea in London to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the British Society of Cinematographers, at the BSC Expo. There were lots of new products from major manufacturers such as Red, Sony, Panasonic, Nikon, Arri, Panavision, Cooke, enabling visitors to test products such as the Steadicam, Arri Trinity, Easy Rig, ReadyRig and Tillta, and a chance to examine the latest in motion control. For the first time a monitor wall featured more than 35 monitors, ranging from five to 17 inches, synced via a video router to enable genuine like-for-like comparisons. Cinema big guns come toLondon Atomos, Sigma and Panasonic, as well as the Canon C500 Mark II and EOS-1D X Mark III, and the Sony PXW-FX9. Mega-retailer CVP had the largest stand, with a huge lens bar displaying glass from Zeiss, Cooke, Arri, Angenieux, Leitz, Canon, Sigma, Sony, Kowa and more. There was a newWearable Zone,
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MTF REVEAL AFFORDABLE KIT British firmMTF revealed a range of affordable yet high-quality kit, including a lens mount service for L-mount, a Sirui anamorphic lens and a new range of good-value tripods. The lens conversion kit allows you to fit Fujinon MK zoom lenses to the Leica L-mount – as used on the new Panasonic S1H and Sigma fp full-frame mirrorless cameras – and costs £270/$355. The company has also revealed an L-mount to PL adapter for £438/$577. MTF will now be importing Sirui’s extensive range of video tripods, heads and gimbals, as well as the Chinese company’s first lens – the 50mm anamorphic. This f/1.8 1.33x manual focus optic comes in a Sony E mount, MFT or Fujifilm X Mount and covers a Super35 image circle. Price has not yet been confirmed but should be around £700/$775. mtfservices.com
reducing backlight brightness in low-luminance areas. The Dynamic Contrast Drive also changes backlight luminance, to adapt to each scene or frame when transferring images from the newmonitors to existing Sony OLED ones. No prices have been announced, but the monitors go on sale in July. Sony marked its return to the BSC show by demonstrating its latest FX9 full-frame cinema camera, and its Venice cinema camera. The latter has had a firmware upgrade to shoot 90fps at 6K 2.39:1 and HD ProRes 4444 internal recording. sony.co.uk
Sony has revealed a new set of high-grade location monitors from its Trimaster range, the 24-inch PVM-X2400 and the 18.4-inch PVM-X1800, which offer ultra- high definition of 3840x2160 pixels, and all-white luminance of 1000 cd/m2. The wide colour gamut matches the industry- standard BVM-HX310 Trimaster HX master monitor, so is ideal for getting colours right on set. The monitors are compatible with 4K HDR production and feature new Black Detail High/ Mid/Low adjustment. This helps maintain accurate colours by
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