Photokina has ended this past weekend and the cinema5D team has agreed on the three winners for this year’s awards. FUJIFILM, Panasonic and I’m Back. Without further ado, let’s dive right in! “Reviving the Past” – I’m Back The guys from I’m Back delivered the most surprising device at Photokina (read our full post here) – a digital back for all kinds of older analogue 35mm cameras which works just like a 35mm adapter: Basically a small-sensor GoPro-sized camera is filming a plate, onto which the image from the lens is projected. Samuel Mello Medeiros from I’m Back accepting the cinema5D Photokina Award Certainly not a professional device (yet), but a really fun and relatively inexpensive way to revive your old 35mm cameras that might not get much use otherwise in those days of digital photo and video. They deserve the award for “Reviving the Past” because of a fun and unconventional approach, and we look forward to photos and videos from the device, as well as future versions that might deliver higher quality video (and photos). Check out the video we did about them below: “Back in the Present” – Panasonic S1R and S1 Best full frame camera announcement – Panasonic announced their full-frame cameras, the S1R and S1 (read our full post here). They showed only mock-ups and things are not finalized, but the last time they did this, we got the GH5 only a few months later, the first mirrorless to deliver such a high color bitrate....
Published By: CineD - Wednesday, 3 October, 2018