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A Beastgrip Anamorphic lens for smartphones
Beastgrip is back on Kickstarter for the third time, and backers continue to support the projects from Vadym Chalenko and team. The highlight, this time, is an Anamorphic lens for…
Intrepid 8×10: an affordable large format camera
Digital may be king, but there is a nostalgia about film and a nostalgia about large format cameras. One British company, producer of 4×5 models, is now ready…
FilmLab: scan film with a smartphone
Shooting film is great, scanning it a nightmare. Abe Fettig decided to try something different: he wrote a software that transforms your smartphone in a scanner. The Kickstarter campaign, which…
Palette: integration with Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Palette was at NAB 2017 to show how their innovative modular hardware offers tactile control for videographers and editors working with Adobe Creative Cloud. In time for NAB and the…
Breakthrough Photography: new ND filters for video and photo
Cinematographers and photographers have discovered, since 2015, the quality of the ND and CPL filters from Breakthrough Photography. Now it is time to discover new solutions, like the X4 ND…
Gixal: a gesture controlled stabilizer
With the newly developed Gixal, action cam or smartphone owners will be able to shoot cinematic and stable videos from novel perspectives. The DSLR version comes next. Making videos with…
Attack of the Cyber Octopuses: Sci-Fi without CGI
Imagine William Gibson’s cyberpunk universe and sci-fi products like Blade Runner, Terminator, Escape from New York, Aliens, Akira or Tetsuo the Iron Man and you’ve the inspiration…
Steadicam returns with Volt
Steadicam, creators of the Academy Award Winning Steadicam Stabilizing technology, are back with a Steadicam to put in the palm of your hand. Yes, Steadicam is back, offering filmmakers the…
FlowMotion ONE, the end of shaky videos
In the final stretch of its Kickstarter campaign, FlowMotion Smartphone Stabilizer was funded in one hour and has amassed, now, over $600,000 of a $30,000 goal. It’…
Crowdfunding and Sachtler support Magpie film project
Magpie is the vision of writer/director Carmel Hannant. It is a film in which the devastating effects of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder are explored against the backdrop of World…
