Phil Rhodes

1 week ago | redsharknews.com | Phil Rhodes

Phil Rhodes reports back from the CineCentral area at NAB where live demonstrations, expert-led training and immersive learning experiences can help shape future career paths. There’s something which warms even the cryogenic core of your narrator’s flinty heart about the idea of recent graduates enjoying their first wobbly experiences operating a Scorpio crane.

2 weeks ago | provideocoalition.com | Phil Rhodes

New thing no longer bigger version of old thing The 2025 NAB show has drawn to a close, which is more excuse than your narrator needs to indulge in some philosophy. Back on Saturday, we cautiously aired a speculation about a technological watershed which has seemed plausible for the past handful of years – and only seems more plausible now.

2 weeks ago | redsharknews.com | Phil Rhodes

Once upon a time LED lights could just be plugged into a wall. That is increasingly not the case, but amidst the race for more and more power ideas still count. There was a time, not a few years ago, when the NAB show floor was dominated by vast LED video walls. The trend now seems to be that there are fewer huge ones and more small ones, a phenomenon which seems not to be so provoked by disinterest in the technology but by its normalisation.

2 weeks ago | provideocoalition.com | Phil Rhodes

Canon and the preservation of broadcast ninjutsu Old hands will remember the days of video lens accessories which projected the image onto a ground glass screen the size of a 35mm film frame, so that a small-sensor video camera could rephotograph it with its inbuilt zoom and capture the characteristics of a larger effective sensor.

2 weeks ago | redsharknews.com | Phil Rhodes

Up close with the new Fujifilm GFX ETERNA6:10 Gaining a lot of attention on the NAB show floor, even under glass, Fujifilm also unveiled some new features coming to its eagerly awaited GFX ETERNA when it launches later this year. The pursuit of better cameras has been a noble crusade of the film industry for so long that it’s easy to forget what it was all about until we encounter Fujifilm’s GFX ETERNA, switched on and with pictures on screen.