Archive for December, 2007

Some Shoulder Relief

Posted by gearjones on December 14th, 2007

The Camera Comfort Cushion is designed to prevent shoulder pain caused by long periods of handheld shooting. Looks like it spreads out the load over a larger area to avoid uncomfortable pressure points. It’s available in fancy colors and styles too. http://www.cameracomfortcushion.com/home.htm

New Carrion HD Monitors

Posted by gearjones on December 13th, 2007

The Carrion is a series of HD monitors designed from the ground up by LS Design. These monitor offer a variety of inputs and frame rates in a 8.4″, 1024×768 LCD monitor. At a price point of under $2000, it’s certainly worth a look.http://www.siniarchproductions.com/lsdsgn/lsdesign-catalog.htm

Meet the EX1

Posted by gearjones on December 8th, 2007

Here is an informative yet very dry video introduction to the Sony PVM-EX1. http://promaxsystems.blogspot.com/2007/11/sony-xdcam-ex-video.html

Easy Slate System

Posted by gearjones on December 8th, 2007

Here’s an interesting idea.  http://www.easyslate.com/Demo.html

NiLA - Sustainable Light System

Posted by gearjones on December 8th, 2007

NiLA makes a very robust high output LED lighting system which could change the way we approach lighting. Maybe. http://www.nila.tv

RED ONE CAMERA Presenation

Posted by gearjones on December 8th, 2007

On Nov. 7-8 2007, the folks at HDEXPO hosted a Red One presentation which is online in it’s entirety. It’s a pretty informative presentation broken up into 9 separate parts. If you don’t have much time jump to the Q&A that starts with part 7. http://virtualhde.com/video/red_1107/red_flash.html

Redrock M2 vs Cinevate Brevis35 (video)

Posted by gearjones on December 5th, 2007

This is not exactly a 1:1 comparison of the two adapters. The Brevis35 is so much faster than the M2, different f-stops were used to get proper exposure, so the depth-of-field is always greater for the Brevis35 in this test.http://www.richard-darge.com/m2brevis.htm

Red One on display at NAB 2007.

Posted by gearjones on December 5th, 2007