With the new B-Mount battery standard on the horizon, we took some time to learn more about this power system by interviewing Neal Ni, Senior Marketing Director at SWIT Electronics. In this video, Neal will walk you through the advantages of the new SWIT B-Mount batteries and accessories. While V-mount and Gold Mount cells are still the most popular power options in the industry, a new battery standard is ready to take over. Co-developed by Bebob and ARRI, the new B-Mount power system was first announced in 2019. It soon became ARRI’s new standard for powering their camera and lighting products. This revolution is already taking place. Indeed, Bebob and SWIT recently released their first generation of B-Mount products. A few days ago, my colleague Johnnie sat down with Neal Ni from SWIT Electronics to learn more about their B-Mount product lineup and the advantages of this new universal standard. SWIT HB-A290B. Source: SWIT Advantages of B–Mount batteries: higher voltage A few weeks ago, ARRI released a Tech Talk covering all the advantages of the new B-Mount standard and it looks like Neal Ni from SWIT largely shares their point of view. Indeed, according to both companies, the new standard is essential to power today’s and tomorrow’s cinema cameras and lighting equipment. Shooting at extremely high resolutions and frame rates with large format cameras requires such an amount of power that standard 12V V-Mount/Gold Mount batteries cannot provide. On the contrary, the higher voltage of B-Mount batteries (24V) can easily...
Published By: CineD - Friday, 15 April, 2022