In recent NABs, the back end of Central Hall was filled with LED luminaires from a vast number of companies, all showing various interpretations of “daylight” or “tungsten” light (some of them more impressionistic than others). This year, the emphasis was more on colored light in all its variations…
![NAB 2019: Things 'n' Stuff 12 SpaceX from Creamsource - does Elon Musk know about this?](https://www.provideocoalition.com/wp-content/uploads/N19P1022397.jpg)
![NAB 2019: Things 'n' Stuff 13 SpaceX, daylight-balanced, one lens removed](https://www.provideocoalition.com/wp-content/uploads/N19P1022398.jpg)
![NAB 2019: Things 'n' Stuff 14 SpaceX, 2200 K, dimmed](https://www.provideocoalition.com/wp-content/uploads/N19P1022399.jpg)
![NAB 2019: Things 'n' Stuff 15 Is water-cooling the new means of thermal management?](https://www.provideocoalition.com/wp-content/uploads/N19P1022400.jpg)
Lenses with “Character”
Cinema glass continues to proliferate. This year the growth was focused on lenses for large format and lenses with “character”: primes (mostly) with endearing artifacts rather than clinical perfection.
![NAB 2019: Things 'n' Stuff 16 ARRI Signature primes are T1.8 large-format lenses](https://www.provideocoalition.com/wp-content/uploads/N19P1022294.jpg)
![NAB 2019: Things 'n' Stuff 17 This is a 15mm lens for full-frame: quite wide.](https://www.provideocoalition.com/wp-content/uploads/N19P1022297.jpg)
![NAB 2019: Things 'n' Stuff 18 Behind-the-lens filters / split diopters / nets for the Signature Primes](https://www.provideocoalition.com/wp-content/uploads/N19P1022287.jpg)
![NAB 2019: Things 'n' Stuff 19 Canon Sumire (soo-me-ray) primes: PL mount, large-format, with added character wide-open](https://www.provideocoalition.com/wp-content/uploads/N19P1022280.jpg)
![NAB 2019: Things 'n' Stuff 20 There are so many formats to cover, Leitz had a cheat sheet on their booth](https://www.provideocoalition.com/wp-content/uploads/N19P1022412.jpg)
ARRI multicam
Half the ARRI booth was given over to a demonstration of live multicam production using ARRI camera with fiber adapters.
PortKeys Field Monitor and EVF
Chinese company PortKeys showed two interesting new products, the BM5 field monitor and the OEYE-3G EVF. The $399 BM5 has a 2000 nit touchscreen, remote-control cables allowing that touchscreen to control a variety of cameras, LUTs, a comprehensive selection of ‘scopes, dual-color zebras, plus grids, markers, anamorphic desqueeze, and all the usual monitoring tools. Eric Naso has more on it at NewsShooter.com.
![NAB 2019: Things 'n' Stuff 23 BM5: Touchscreen controls as well as hardwired buttons](https://www.provideocoalition.com/wp-content/uploads/N19P1022408.jpg)
![NAB 2019: Things 'n' Stuff 24 BM5 showing multiple 'scopes](https://www.provideocoalition.com/wp-content/uploads/N19P1022410.jpg)
![NAB 2019: Things 'n' Stuff 25 NP-series battery power or external DC; HDMI and SDI. "Focus puller" port for remote cable](https://www.provideocoalition.com/wp-content/uploads/N19P1022411.jpg)
The $1199 OEYE-3G uses a full HD OLED panel and offers LUTs, a monochrome WFM, false color, zebras, anamorphic desqueeze, and more. It accepts 1080/60p on SDI and up to 4K/24P or UHD/30P on HDMI.
![NAB 2019: Things 'n' Stuff 26 OEYE-3G: large buttons on flat top make control easy](https://www.provideocoalition.com/wp-content/uploads/N19P1022405.jpg)
![NAB 2019: Things 'n' Stuff 27 The two "horns" protect cables from bashes](https://www.provideocoalition.com/wp-content/uploads/N19P1022406.jpg)
Process shots without a trailer
PRG showed a process stage using LED video-wall panels to surround a car with live video. It’s simpler than loading the car on a process trailer and driving ’round the city. This isn’t a new idea, but as the panels and video scalers become more readily available, this sort of work becomes less of a science project and more of a turn-key service.
![NAB 2019: Things 'n' Stuff 28 PRG process stage](https://www.provideocoalition.com/wp-content/uploads/N19P1022377.jpg)
![NAB 2019: Things 'n' Stuff 29 How it appears on-camera](https://www.provideocoalition.com/wp-content/uploads/N19P1022378.jpg)
![NAB 2019: Things 'n' Stuff 30 Not all the displays need to be high-res](https://www.provideocoalition.com/wp-content/uploads/N19P1022379.jpg)
Scorpio mixer/recorder
Sound Devices showed the Scorpio, a 36-track, 32-channel mixer/recorder with 12 channels directly controllable from the front panel. Each channel trim pot (and the transport control knob) is surrounded by a multicolor LED, which indicates that channel’s status (on, off, soloed, muted, etc.) as well as level.
![NAB 2019: Things 'n' Stuff 31 Sound Devices Scorpio](https://www.provideocoalition.com/wp-content/uploads/N19P1022469.jpg)
![NAB 2019: Things 'n' Stuff 32 Sound Devices Scorpio](https://www.provideocoalition.com/wp-content/uploads/N19P1022470.jpg)
If that’s not enough, additional control surfaces can be connected, wired or wirelessly, and if 36 tracks won’t do, you can gang two Scorpios together.
VX microphone
Wooden Camera featured their VX microphone, a self-powered mic designed to recreate the sound of the Sony DCR-VX1000’s built-in mic. The VX1000 — one of the first 3-chip DV camcorders — was the canonical skateboard-video camera of its day, and the midtone-heavy, somewhat compressed sound it recorded (optimized for its 32 kHz, 12-bit audio format) became associated with the skate-vid genre.
![NAB 2019: Things 'n' Stuff 33 Wooden Camera VX Mic](https://www.provideocoalition.com/wp-content/uploads/N19P1022418.jpg)
Now, for a mere $299, you can have that same sound today — just like you did back in 1995.
Etc.
![NAB 2019: Things 'n' Stuff 34 That's a BIG spool of cable](https://www.provideocoalition.com/wp-content/uploads/N19P1022309.jpg)
![NAB 2019: Things 'n' Stuff 35 This Pathé Brothers camera at the ASC booth is about 100 years old](https://www.provideocoalition.com/wp-content/uploads/N19P1022401.jpg)
![NAB 2019: Things 'n' Stuff 36 Black Bear showed this alien invasion: a flashback to the Burbank Frys, perhaps?](https://www.provideocoalition.com/wp-content/uploads/N19P1022403.jpg)
![NAB 2019: Things 'n' Stuff 37 If you need an audio connector — ANY audio connector — try Switchcraft](https://www.provideocoalition.com/wp-content/uploads/N19P1022413.jpg)
![NAB 2019: Things 'n' Stuff 38 Has Lectrosonics actually tested with a Stomposaurus?](https://www.provideocoalition.com/wp-content/uploads/N19P1022420.jpg)
![NAB 2019: Things 'n' Stuff 39 This dispenser was at my hotel. If it had been at the LVCC, they would own the place](https://www.provideocoalition.com/wp-content/uploads/N19IMG_0492.jpg)
Disclosure: There is no current material relationship between me and any of the companies covered (though in the past I worked for Sound Devices on the design and coding of the PIX-E monitor/recorders, now sadly discontinued, squeezed out by Atomos on the low end and Convergent Design on the high end: o tempora, o mores!), and nobody offered any compensation in return for favorable coverage.
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