A full on “hat trick” for Red this morning with 3 major announcements. Welcom to the RED Ray. • Optical disk drive• Play back 4K video from the RED ONE• 3K video from Scarlet • HD formats from RED Disc and RED Express media• R3D RAW files from CompactFlash• 5K video from the new EPIC […]
Day: April 14, 2008
Red Announces Scarlett At NAB
RED just announced Scarlet , its promised “pocket professional” camera at NAB. With all of the hype around RED One, this one should take off on its own right. Here’s the deets: 2 / 3-inch Mysterium X sensor, shooting 1 to 120 FPS and records to dual CompactFlash cards. It can handle up to 100MB […]
Sony Snapshots – NAB 2008 Day 0
PMW-EX3 with 2/3″ cine lens, Sony HDD recorder Sony’s Juan Martinez gave me a night-before-the-show tour of the Sony booth (really a miniature city; “booth” doesn’t do it justice), and here are some of the highlights from a camera operator’s perspective. PMW-EX3 The EX3 will be to the EX1 what the HDV S270 is to […]
Combining solid principles of design with the tenets of Zen
Presentation designer and internationally acclaimed communications expert Garr Reynolds, creator of the most popular Web site on presentation design and delivery on the net — presentationzen.com — shares his experience in a provocative mix of illumination, inspiration, education, and guidance that will change the way you think about making presentations with PowerPoint or Keynote. Presentation […]
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Google Takes Aim at the Enterprise:
Google Takes Aim at the Enterprise: Announces Salesforce for Google Apps: Google and Salesforce.com have announced the launch of a jointly developed product that integrates the key features of Google Apps with the key features of Salesforce.com, the leader in web-based CRM software with more than 41,000+ corporate customers. Called “Salesforce for Google Apps,” the […]
More New Panasonic Cameras – HMC 150
Panasonic also used the press conference to introduce us to the AG-HMC150 handheld. This unit records to familiar SD and SDHC cards up to 32GB. In HE mode, that’s 12 hours of 1440×1080 HD content on one 32GB card! Full on press release goodness after the jump. AG-HMC150LAS VEGAS, NV (April 13, 2008) – Here […]
NAB Exhibits Start Tomorrow
Between meetings, booth appointments with vendors, and the crowds, I expect to update NAB news as available. The conferences for Sony and Panasonic were interesting, but not very exciting. I’m not talking about the new product introductions like the Sony EX3 or the Varicam 3700, I’m talking about listening to the marketing speak. Here are […]
Panasonic Intros 2 New P2HD Varicams: 2700 & 3700
Varicam 3700• 1920×1080 recording• 2/3″ 2.2 megapixel 3-CCD imagers• Expected Fall 2008 targeting Feature Films, Episodic TV and more Varicam 2700• 1280×720• 2/3 1 megapixel Imager Available Fall 2008 targeting Sports, Documentaries,Indie Films, more Press Info after the jump. LAS VEGAS, NV (April 13, 2008) – Recognized worldwide as the industry’s premier digital cinematography camera, […]
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Sony Announces the EX3
Sony announces a new sister to the EX1, the new EX3 with interchangeable lenses. You know you’re in a room with tech guys when Miss Universe 2008 walks out on stage to intro the EX3 and the crowd is taking more pictures of the camera, than Miss Universe. Of course Sony didn’t hand out press […]
Panasonic Intros AG-HPX 170
The press conference for Panasonic went slightly long, but it was full of interesting product introductions. First up: AG-HPX170 P2 HD Handheld1080i HD & SDWidest zoom lens in it’s class4.2 lbs3 1/3 16:9 CCD14-Bit A/D Conversion 19 Bit Processing28mm 13x Leica Zoom lensTime/date state makes this good for legal etc.with 2 P2 slots, current 32GB […]