Production
Autofocus which doesn’t exist
No, this isn’t a call for the thousand-dollar, twenty-to-one zoom that’s f/1.4 all the way down, covers full frame...
Production
LED lights that don’t exist
Pocketsized cameras and laptops containing the equivalent of an entire late-90s post production facility have made it easy for...
Distribution
IBC 2023 – The world is a workstation
When Amazon Web Services has a booth as large as some of the major equipment suppliers at a big,...
Post Production
IBC Day 3: The unchanging eyeball
There’s a strange imperative, at exhibitions like IBC, to find new inventions that make previously expensive and difficult things...
Production
IBC 2023 – Day 2
Strolling around the halls of IBC, it’s easy to forget that each one of the humming, blinking boxes of...
Production
Updates from IBC 2023 – A push for the high end
If anything has characterised the last decade or so of film and TV equipment releases, it’s democratisation. That means...
Distribution
The road to IBC
There was a time when IBC was the trade show at which all the things shown behind glass at...
Production
Small is beautiful
It doesn’t take long, during the formative years of most people’s involvement in film and TV, to conclude that...
NAB Show
NAB 2023 – Trends, Gear and Opportunities
Your stalwart narrator normally refuses to attend both NAB and Cine Gear, for the simple reason that getting to...
Production
New year’s definition: Framelines.
New years’ resolutions traditionally involve grand, life-changing pronouncements of such vast scope that even the friendliest onlookers tend to...
