Sharp shows 85 inch 8K monitor in Europe

Sharp shows 85 inch 8K monitor in Europe 2

Already available in Japan since October last year, the new monitor from Sharp is the world’s first commercially available 8K display, an ultra-high resolution 85” monitor featuring Sharp’s IGZO technology, its broadest ever colour palette and High Dynamic Range (HDR) imaging for true-to-life image reproduction. The monitor was shown as a prototype at CES 2013, […]

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Sony’s Laser Projectors Provide Image Quality in the “Sweet-spot” Brightness Range

Sony’s Laser Projectors Provide Image Quality in the “Sweet-spot” Brightness Range 3

Sony is broadening its line of laser light source (Z-Phosphor™) projectors in the mid-brightness range with three new models between 4,100 and 6,000 lumens. The new models are the VPL-FWZ65 (6,000lm WXGA); VPL-FWZ60 (5,000lm WXGA); and the VPL-FHZ57 (4,100lm WUXGA). […]

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A digest of last week’s photo and video news – Week 06

A digest of last week's photo and video news - Week 06 4

A digest of last week’s news is a selection of some of the news from week 05 from 2016 related to the worlds of photography and video, covering multiple topics, always rounded up with a reading suggestion. GoPro quits entry-level market Last week, GoPro announced their HERO+ LCD, HERO+ and HERO entry-level cameras will stop selling […]

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Is VR here to stay or will it fade away like 3D TV?

Is VR here to stay or will it fade away like 3D TV? 5

Virtual Reality (VR) has been going to change the world ever since the 1950s. Each decade heralds the next coming of VR as the technology that is going to transform human experience and take us into the brave new worlds of virtual gaming, virtual sex and virtual human experience. Only somehow, the promised land of […]

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New Cine Lenses from Samyang

New Cine Lenses from Samyang 6

Samyang Optics announced this month the release of their two new lenses, XEEN 14mm T3.1 and 35mm T1.5, while promising a new one will be available soon, so as to comply with the promise made in the Summer of 2015. The new lenses, presented under the XEEN brand (read our article Xeen Cinema lenses: 3 […]

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Animating with transitions in Final Cut Pro X

Animating with transitions in Final Cut Pro X 7

This week on MacBreak Studio, I show Steve Martin from Ripple Training how you can create animations in Final Cut Pro X by using transitions. To animate a graphic, picture-in-picture, or other element onto the screen and off again, we usually use keyframes: zooming out in the Viewer to create more room, moving the object […]

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Will VR fundamentally change the way filmmakers approach their craft?

Will VR fundamentally change the way filmmakers approach their craft? 9

Not too long ago I was asked to participate in an industry survey, and one of the questions was around what technology or trend was going to be especially big this year and beyond. Previously I might have mentioned HDR, but it feels like HDR has already arrived, which means it’s time to start focusing […]

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Updates to Blackmagic Video Assist and DaVinci Resolve

Updates to Blackmagic Video Assist and DaVinci Resolve 10

Blackmagic announces updates to their Video Assist and to DaVinci Resolve. Some of the updates include h265 encoding and DNxHD recoding. […]

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