The Rokinon 24mm f/3.5 ED AS UMC tilt-shift lens will start shipping on May 2nd, the Samyang version is scheduled to be released on May 15th. Shipments of the Plustek OpticFilm 120 professional grade scanner ($1,999.99) are temporary put on hold due to a faulty component. The Sony 50mm f/1.4 Carl Zeiss Planar T* ZA lens is delayed till [...]
Blackmagic announced their production 4k camera priced at $4k. The new compact Novo camera takes C-mount lenses and fits int he palm of your hand.
Update: B&H is now taking pre-orders for the new Blackmagic Pocket cinema camera. The Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera is now officially announced. You can get more details on the new camera from John Brawley’s blog where he writes: “What BMD have done with this camera is to take a super 16 size version of the exact same awesome sensor [...]
At the 2013 NAB show Blackmagic is expected to announce a new compact Micro Four Thirds cinema camera with a price tag of $995: “Ultra portable Super 16 digital cinema camera with super wide 13 stops dynamic range, Super 16 sized 1080 HD sensor, built-in SD card recorder, high resolution LCD, ProRes and lossless CinemaDNG RAW recording, [...]
Today Olympus announced that four new companies have joined the Micro Four Thirds System Standard Group: Blackmagic Design – an Australian company established in 1984 that manufactures high quality electronic equipment for broadcast and video production, known for their Cinema camera with MFT mount. JK Imaging Ltd. – an American company established in 2012, that recently announced their [...]
After the introduction of their first cinema camera at the 2012 NAB show, Blackmagic made headlines again today with the announcement of their new cinema camera with passive Micro Four Thirds mount. The mains specs are: super wide 13 stops of dynamic range, large 2.5K sensor, a built-in SSD recorder. 2.5K Image Sensor 12-bit RAW, ProRes and DNxHD [...]
Panasonic LX7 camera is expected to start shipping on August 27th, 2012. Blackmagic cinema camera delayed by few weeks. Recsea announces underwater housing for the popular Sony RX-100 compact camera.
The Fuji X100 limited edition kit is now $100 off. Pentax K-30 now shipping in the US. The President of Olympus said that the OM-D E-M5 sensor is made by Sony.
New ThinkTankPhoto Retrospective bags. Canon suspends 5D Mark III shipping. Sony A57 delayed to April 27th in Japan. Olympus has a new board.
The talk of the NAB show this year is the new Blackmagic cinema camera (priced at $3000): “Blackmagic Cinema Camera features an amazing 2.5K image sensor with a wide 13 stops of dynamic range for a true digital film camera. You get a built-in SSD recorder, popular open standard uncompressed RAW and compressed file formats, compatibility with [...]
