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- Sony A1 II wins the 2025 EISA Award for Best Camera of the Year
SonyAlphaRumors (Thursday, 21 August) - The EISA Awards have been announced, naming the Sony A1 II as “Camera of the Year.” However, the awards remain controversial due to the organization’s close ties with the industry. With sponsorship from many of the winning brands, critics argue that the ever-expanding list of categories serves to ensure that... - ARRI NIA-1 underwater camera & lens control
News Shooter (Thursday, 21 August) - ARRI will start shipping its NIA-1 in September, and Sean Dooley has put together a nice little video that demonstrates how much easier underwater camera and lens control can be thanks to the Ethernet capabilities of the newest ECS device. Two NIA-1s are used here in combination with an RIA-1... - SWIT FM-215HDR Firmware Update News Shooter (Thursday, 21 August) - SWIT has released a new firmware update for its FM-215HDR monitor that introduces multi-monitoring flexibility and display optimization. Key Enhancements 720p Quadview Mode– Simultaneously display up to four 720p video sources for multi-cam monitoring Up/Down Flip Display Support– SDI Resolutions: 3840×2160, 1920×1080, HDMI Resolutions: 4096×2160, 3840×2160, 1920×1080 System Performance Optimizations...
- OWC 8TB Express 1M2 80G USB4 External SSD with USB 4.0 Announced
CineD (Thursday, 21 August) - OWC (Other World Computing) has released the Express 1M2 80G, an 8TB external SSD that targets video professionals working with 8K content and other data-intensive applications. The drive uses USB 4.0 connectivity to achieve transfer speeds up to 6000 MB/s when connected to 80 Gb/s USB 4.0 or Thunderbolt 5... - Lexar 256GB GOLD Professional SDXC $44 (Reg $89)
Canonrumors (Thursday, 21 August) - B&H Photo has the Lexar 256GB Professional 1800x UHS-II SDXC Memory Card (GOLD Series) in their DealZone for $44 (Reg $89) today. These are 5-star rated memory cards at B&H Photo. Purchase Overview The 256GB Professional 1800x UHS-II SDXC Memory Card (GOLD Series) from Lexar features a storage capacity of... - Bet You Didn’t Notice How Interstellar’s Music Is Timed to the Plot’s Physics
NoFilmSchool (Thursday, 21 August) - What if a movie’s music could bend time just like its plot?That’s the magic at the heart of Interstellar (2014). Christopher Nolan’s space epic may be remembered for wormholes, black holes, and Matthew McConaughey crying in front of a wall of old video messages, but its score deserves equal praise.... - Film Noir to Neo-Noir: A Dark Makeover of Crime-Thrillers NoFilmSchool (Thursday, 21 August) - The rain-slicked streets, the morally ambiguous detective, the femme fatale with a hidden agenda—these classic elements of film noir were too good to fade away into oblivion. So they evolved.Film Noir crawled into new skins, kept whispering dark thoughts into filmmakers’ ears, and reshaped itself into neo-noir. Sure, it shed...
- Ranking Zach Creggers Filmography NoFilmSchool (Thursday, 21 August) - Zach Cregger’s career trajectory feels like a dare he made to himself—start in absurd, no-filter comedy and somehow pivot to bone-chilling, prestige horror.Beginning with the shock-value antics of Miss March (2009) and The Civil War on Drugs (2011), Cregger seemed destined to remain in the sketch-comedy lane carved out by...
- 2025 Ranking of Zach Cregger Filmography NoFilmSchool (Thursday, 21 August) - Zach Cregger’s career trajectory feels like a dare he made to himself—start in absurd, no-filter comedy and somehow pivot to bone-chilling, prestige horror.Beginning with the shock-value antics of Miss March (2009) and The Civil War on Drugs (2011), Cregger seemed destined to remain in the sketch-comedy lane carved out by...
- When Evil Walked In: 7 Greatest Villain Intros in TV History NoFilmSchool (Thursday, 21 August) - Working in Bollywood films, you don’t have to tell me how crucial villain introductions are. We’ve basically taken our villain intros to a heightened level of melodrama now, sometimes treating them more seriously than a hero's introduction. On a more serious note, I’ve talked about this multiple times, how a...
- Ricoh announces the Ricoh GR IV Canonrumors (Thursday, 21 August) - There’s a new APS-C compact on the streets, as Ricoh has announced the GR IV. It’s the fourth camera in the series and has now circled back and included some elements from prior GR cameras that were excluded from the third model, making this perhaps the most complete model to...
- Ricoh GRIV on preorder now…the camera Sony should do! SonyAlphaRumors (Wednesday, 20 August) - The Ricoh GR IV is now available for preorder at B&H Photo, Adorama, Amazon, FotoErhardt, Calumet, Fotokoch, WexUK. While it’s not a Sony camera, it’s exactly the kind of compact I wish Sony would make. Just imagine an updated Sony RX100 with an APS-C sensor—it would fly off the shelves,...
- How We Pulled Off the Insane Mirror Sequence for 'Nobody 2' NoFilmSchool (Wednesday, 20 August) - When I first read the script for Nobody 2, the hall of mirrors sequence jumped out immediately. It was a funhouse maze, full of traps set by Hutch (Bob Odenkirk), waiting for Sharon Stone’s character and her team of henchmen to arrive.On paper, it looked like a great set piece,...
- The Film That Won Venice by Accident (And Changed Cinema Forever) NoFilmSchool (Wednesday, 20 August) - Imagine this. It's September 1951. You're director Akira Kurosawa, and you have just found out your film won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. But there's a catch. You didn't even know your film had been entered into competition.Well, that's exactly what happened.So when Rashomon won the festival's...
- Here’s How to Improve the Operational Stability of Your Sony a7RV Camera Today NoFilmSchool (Wednesday, 20 August) - Who doesn’t love operational stability? Repeating a trend that Sony’s been pushing out to pretty much all of its cameras over the past few months, a new firmware update is now available for the Sony a7RV (aka the Sony a7R5).This firmware update (version 3.01) does one thing and one thing...
