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Panasonic LUMIX S1II review: a very capable camera with a very complete feature set

4 days ago | redsharknews.com | Phil Rhodes

Phil Rhodes takes a close look at the $3199 full-frame mirrorless Panasonic LUMIX S1II and is impressed at what he finds. You have to be fairly experienced now to remember a time when most stills cameras weren’t hybrid cameras. The term has been much used to describe things just such as Panasonic’s S1II, where the moving image features seem to have occupied just as much of the designers’ brain space as the stills.
Cameras: Bigger Sensors Bring a Bigger Cinematic Experience

3 weeks ago | tvtechnology.com | Phil Rhodes

The subtle art of aiming cameras at live events is perhaps the part of film and television practice which has been most resistant to new technologies. While sheer specifications have skyrocketed, outside broadcast camerawork is marked by nothing more than a determination to maintain a consistent operator experience. Recently, though, the drive for sheer gloss—driven, perhaps, by the ascendancy of single-camera drama from OTT distributors—has imposed change on this most change-resistant of fields.
Getting the least out of your awesome sensor

1 month ago | provideocoalition.com | Phil Rhodes

Post-scarcity sensors provoke desperate clutching for… less? Sometimes, new technologies are pursued because they make things work better. Sometimes, that happens because they allow people to write large numbers on promotional material. Occasionally, it’s both. Yes, this is one of those articles where we’re going to have to avoid naming names.
Atomos Shinobi Go review: small, light, bright and affordable

1 month ago | redsharknews.com | Phil Rhodes

At only $249 the Atomos Shinobi Go is likely to be many people’s first experience of a proper monitor with proper exposure tools and there is no shortage of features even at this entry level. One sign of a mature market is when all the products which manufacturers themselves describe as entry-level start sprouting advanced features. That’s certainly the case with Atomos’ Shinobi Go, which was announced in plenty of time for the NAB show and is now on the market.
Phil Rhodes Image Capture NAB 2025 Show Floor Report - The Broadcast Bridge - Connecting IT to Broadcast

2 months ago | thebroadcastbridge.com | Phil Rhodes

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NAB, CineCentral, and the future of filmmaking

2 months 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.
Winning the arms race

2 months 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.
The future of lighting and the 18kW moonshot

2 months 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.
Big box zooms get arty at NAB

2 months 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.
Up close with the new Fujifilm GFX ETERNA

2 months 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.