RØDE has today announced the appointment of Dr Sam Bucolo as Chief of Design. Dr Bucolo joins RØDE from the Australia Design Council, where he is currently Chief Executive Officer. With a career spanning more than 30 years, he has worked for a number of organisations implementing design-led innovation strategies...
Hollyland Launches MARS M1 Enhanced: Wireless Video Monitor, Transmitter, and Receiver
Hollyland has announced the release of the MARS M1 Enhanced. This smart wireless video device redefines videography by integrating transmitting, receiving, and monitoring into one seamless solution. The MARS M1 Enhanced is perfect for aerial photography monitoring, on-the-go surveillance, and wireless focus control. It is ideal for small, dynamic commercial...
Blackmagic Design Announces New Lower Prices for all Blackmagic Cloud Stores
Blackmagic Design today announced new lower prices for all Blackmagic Cloud Store models. The Blackmagic Cloud Store Mini 8TB is now reduced to AU$2,889, the Blackmagic Cloud Store 20TB has been reduced to AU$9,895 and the Blackmagic Cloud Store 80TB model is reduced to AU$27,335. The new prices will help to make high performance...
MediaHub Australia wins GB News channel playout
MediaHub Australia (MHA) has won the contract and is now managing the entire playout for GB News, an Ofcom regulated news channel based in the UK. MediaHub Australia CEO Alan Sweeney explained, “GB News released a playout RFP to the market and MediaHub’s response to the RFP won the tender...
3 New Canon RF Lenses available from Dec 2023
Canon Australia today announces three new RF lenses and two power zoom adaptors, broadening creative capabilities for professionals and creatives alike. The RF 24-105mm f/2.8L IS USM Z leads the new products and marks a significant milestone in lens technology for Canon, including attributes from broadcast, cinema and standard RF...
More AI Nonsense
I swear this whole AI thing is getting out of hand. As I have mentioned previously, just as everyone whacked an “I” in front of everything when the internet became the tech darling in the late 90s, so now every man and his dog is branding everything as “AI” capable,...
Maxon Redshift and Cinebench Optimized for Mac Lineup with M3 Family of Chips
Redshift and Cinebench 2024 that take advantage of the latest developments in Apple’s M3 family of chips. Artists will experience outstanding performance when generating photorealistic imagery using Maxon’s industry-leading Redshift render engine, thanks to the increased GPU power of the M3 family of chips, which includes support for hardware-accelerated ray tracing. Maxon’s Cinebench 2024 benchmarking...
Lemac presents A Lens for Every Story event at AFTRS
Recently leading industry sales and rental house Lemac put on a unique event entitled, “A Lens for Every Story” where cinematographers, DoPs, camera operators and the industry at large were invited to explore an extensive collection of rare and exotic lenses at AFTRS in Sydney. Lemac national rentals manager Tim...
GoPro’s do NOT ‘Zoom’. End Of.
This ‘myth’ is asked in the GoPro forums so often it requires a separate story (although I have covered it in other stories about using GoPros). The question asked is about GoPro cameras ‘zooming’ Simple answer. They don’t. End of. The lens in a GoPro is of the fixed type,...
Horror Feature Film Creeping Death Captured with Blackmagic Design
The new independent horror film “Creeping Death” was shot with its Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K Pro and Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K digital film cameras. The cameras’ dual native ISOs and low light capabilities helped capture dark and spooky scenes for the supernatural thriller that’s set on Halloween night....