Our records show that you may be using applications included in Final Cut Studio. We wanted to share some important compatibility information about these applications and macOS High Sierra, which will be available this fall. Older versions of Apple pro video applications — including applications in Final Cut Studio — will not launch on a computer running macOS High Sierra. New versions of Apple pro video applications — including Final Cut Pro X, Motion 5, and Compressor 4 — are compatible with macOS High Sierra. You can purchase these applications on the Mac App Store. You can learn about transitioning from older versions of Final Cut Pro to Final Cut Pro X here. For more information about compatibility of Apple pro applications on macOS High Sierra, please view this support article.

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT207888

Filmmakers from across the world are challenged to write, shoot and edit a film no longer than 5 minutes in length in just 60 hours. The challenge is free to enter and teams can register online (www.60hourfilmchallenge.com) until the 31st August.

The challenge begins on Friday 1st September at 9pm (UK Time). Teams will receive an e-mail containing a title, line of dialogue and prop/action they must include in their films. Each team has to make their films over the weekend (1st-4th September) and upload their final films to our Vimeo group no later than Monday 4th 9am (UK Time). The shortlisted films will be screened and the winners announced at Colchester Film Festival on Saturday 4th November.

The challenge will be judged by our expert panel, directors Olly Blackburn (Donkey Punch), Tom Geens (Couple in a Hole), The Blaine Brothers (Nina Forever) and producer Jennifer Handorf (Prevenge).

Entering the challenge is a great way to get noticed, films from the challenge have gone on to feature at festivals around the world. Rob McLellan’s 2012 entry ‘Love and All That’ went onto inspire MGM’s feature film ‘Abe’, which is currently in pre-production.

Winning teams will receive over £10,000 worth of prizes which have kindly been donated from: Adobe, AKM Music, Beachtek, BlueStarProducts, Boris FX, Boxx TV Ltd, Cartoni, Cinedeck, Contour Design, Daz 3D, EditShare, FilmConvert, Filmstro, FXGuide, IndieFlix, Lenspen, Logickeyboard, Loopmasters, MindShift Gear, Musicbed, Peli, PowerProduction Software, ProMediaGear, RØDE Microphones, Snapperstuff, Spiffy Gear, Stan Winston School of Character Arts, Toon Boom Animation, Vid-Atlantic and Vocas Systems.

60hrFilm

Website: http://www.60hourfilmchallenge.com
Facebook Group: www.facebook.com/groups/60hrFilm
Facebook : @colchesterfilmfestival
Twitter: @ColFilmFestival
Instagram: @colfilmfest

The workers described shocking conditions at B&H Photo warehouses. Employees are told to unload or carry extremely heavy loads, without sufficient help or safety training. Pallets are often stacked more than 15 feet high, and workers operating the heavy machinery to unload the pallets are rarely trained. Other workers are forced to carry heavy loads alone and suffer back injuries. Dust is constantly in the air, and the rooms are extremely hot and dirty. “My nose bleeds two or three times a day sometimes,” said B&H worker Silverio Cano. “I went to the doctor, and she told me that the nosebleeds were caused by the dust in the warehouse.”

Workers say they are not permitted to use emergency exits. During a recent fire at the warehouse, “there was a ton of smoke, but we continued working, even when the room filled with smoke,” recalled B&H Photo worker Baltizar Martinez. “When we were finally allowed to leave, we had to go through the metal detectors. This process lasted for a half hour. When we got outside, there were 50 firefighters and a helicopter, and imagine! We had been inside, working, this whole time.” After the fire, nothing changed. “The alarm goes off from time to time, but no one pays it any attention,” said Martinez.

http://lwcu.org/campaigns/bhexposed/

Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ:QCOM), through its subsidiary, Qualcomm Technologies Inc., announced an expansion to the Qualcomm® Spectra™ Module Program, capable of improved biometric authentication and high-resolution depth sensing, designed to meet growing demands of photo and video for a broad range of mobile devices and head mounted displays (HMD). This module program is built on the cutting-edge technology behind the Qualcomm® SpectraTM embedded image signal processors (ISP) family. Engineered by Qualcomm Technologies from the ground up, Qualcomm Spectra paves the way for future image quality and computer vision innovations in upcoming Qualcomm® SnapdragonTM Mobile Platforms.

"Whether used for computational photography, video recording, or for computer vision applications that require accurate motion tracking, it's clear that power efficient camera image signal processing has become more important for the next generation of mobile user experiences," said Tim Leland, vice president of product management, Qualcomm TechnologiesInc. "Our breakthrough advancements in visual quality and computer vision, combined with our family of integrated Spectra ISPs for Snapdragon, are designed to support an ecosystem of cutting edge mobile applications for our customers."

Together, the new ISPs and camera modules are engineered to support superior image quality and new computer vision use cases that utilize deep learning techniques and bokeh quality image experiences with a faster time to market for smartphone and HMD devices. The next-generation ISPs feature a new camera architecture designed for advancements in computer vision, image quality and power efficiency for the next Snapdragon mobile and VR platforms. The camera module program additions consist of a trio of camera modules, including an iris authentication module, a passive depth sensing module and an active depth sensing module.

Qualcomm Spectra Module Program

Launched last year, the Qualcomm Spectra Module Program was designed to help customers accelerate time to market for devices with stunning image quality and advanced camera technology. Last year's offerings provided customers with optimized, dual-camera module solutions that make it easy for manufacturers to produce smartphone cameras with improved low light photography and video recording with smooth zoom. Now, the camera module program is being expanded to include new camera modules capable of utilizing active sensing for superior biometric authentication, and structured light for a variety of computer vision applications that require real-time, dense depth map generation and segmentation.

Second-generation Qualcomm Spectra ISP

The second-generation Qualcomm Spectra ISP is the next family of integrated ISPs that utilizes new hardware and software architecture designed specifically for advancements in computer vision, image quality, and power efficiency in future Snapdragon platforms. It features multiframe noise reduction for superior photographic quality, along with hardware-accelerated motion compensated temporal filtering (MCTF), and inline electronic image stabilization (EIS) for superior camcorder-like video quality.

The low-power, high-performance motion tracking capabilities of the Qualcomm Spectra ISP, in addition to optimized simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithms, are designed to support new extended reality (XR) use cases for virtual and augmented reality applications that require SLAM.

The Qualcomm Spectra family of ISPs and new Qualcomm Spectra camera modules are expected to be part of the next flagship Snapdragon Mobile Platform.

DSLR ZOOM LENS 2017-2018 - Tamron SP 150-600mm f/5-6,3 Di VC USD G2

PROFESSIONAL DSLR LENS 2017-2018 - Canon EF 16-35 mm f/2,8L III USM

COMPACT SYSTEM LENS 2017-2018 - Sony FE 100 mm f/2,8 STF GM OSS

PROFESSIONAL COMPACT SYSTEM LENS 2017-2018 - Sony FE 70-200 mm f/2,8 GM OSS

COMPACT SYSTEM ZOOM LENS 2017-2018 - Olympus M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 12-100 mm f/4,0 IS PRO

PHOTO INNOVATION 2017-2018 - Tamron 18-400 mm f/3,5-6,3 Di II VC HLD

PROSUMER DSLR CAMERA 2017-2018 - Nikon D7500

PROFESSIONAL DSLR CAMERA 2017-2018 - Canon EOS 5D Mark IV

CONSUMER COMPACT SYSTEM CAMERA 2017-2018 - Fujifilm X-T20

PROSUMER COMPACT SYSTEM CAMERA 2017-2018 - Sony α6500

BEST CAMERA 2017-2018 - Sony α9

COMPACT CAMERA 2017-2018 - Sony RX100 V

SUPERZOOM CAMERA 2017-2018 - Sony RX10 Mark III

PHOTO & VIDEO CAMERA 2017-2018 - Panasonic GH5

INSTANT CAMERA 2017-2018 - Fujifilm Instant Square SQ10

http://www.sony-semicon.co.jp/products_en/IS/sensor0/img/product/cmos/IMX307LQD_LQR_Flyer.pdf

http://www.sony-semicon.co.jp/products_en/IS/sensor0/img/product/cmos/IMX327LQR_LQR1_Flyer.pdf

We have found that some SIGMA interchangeable lenses for CANON are not fully compatible with EOS 6D Mark II, EOS 77D, EOS Rebel T7i, EOS Rebel SL2.

When certain lenses are attached to these cameras and the “Lens aberration correction” function on these cameras is set to “Enable” for Live View shooting, an error would occur.

Please set the “Lens aberration correction” function of the cameras to “Disable” when using SIGMA’s interchangeable lenses for CANON.

In addition, please also refer to other notice below, related to the usage of EOS mount SIGMA lenses on Canon cameras.

[Phenomenon]

When the lenses listed below are used on EOS 6D Mark II, EOS 77D, EOS Rebel T7i, EOS Rebel SL2 and the “Lens aberration correction” function on the camera is set to “Enable” for Live View shooting, an error would occur.

[Products concerned]

• SIGMA 30mm F1.4 DC HSM | Art
• SIGMA 35mm F1.4 DG HSM | Art
• SIGMA 30mm F1.4 EX DC HSM
• SIGMA 50mm F1.4 EX DG HSM
• SIGMA 85mm F1.4 EX DG HSM

[Usage Notice for customers who are using EOS mount SIGMA lenses on CANON cameras]

When using the SIGMA lenses for CANON, “Peripheral illumination correction”, “Chromatic aberration correction”, “Diffraction correction” as well as “Distortion correction” from the “Lens aberration correction” function of the camera are not supported. Therefore, we recommend you to set them to “Disable”.

If those functions are set to “Enable”, the performance of the lenses may not be accurate.

Let me know here which exhibitors you would be interested in me interviewing, and any specific questions. I will try to gauge community interest here.

http://smpte.com.au/2017/exhibitor-list-2017/

• 2WCOM
• ABonAir
• Adeal
• Adept Turnkey Pty Ltd
• Advantech Wireless
• Agile Broadcast

....

• Viz Mosart
• VIZRT AUSTRALIA PTY LTD
• vMix
• Weather Metrics
• Wireless Components Pty Ltd
• XICOM
• Yamaha Music Australia

https://photographylife.com/types-of-photographers

I am probably 5 out of the 40 listed... LOL

Dolby Atmos compatible speakers :-)

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said a memory chip boom that propelled it to record profit in the second quarter is likely to continue in the third, just as revenue is widely expected to benefit from sales of OLED screens to Apple Inc.

The world's biggest maker of memory chips, smartphones and TVs is set to smash its annual profit record after better-than-forecast performance in its mobile business lifted April-June profit slightly above its early-July guidance, analysts said.

Samsung in a filing said operating profit rose 72.7 percent to 14.1 trillion won in the second quarter, versus 14 trillion won estimated in July. Revenue rose 19.8 percent to 61 trillion won, also in line with its earlier estimate.

Yes, and they closed NX division to get few engineers and save tiny money.

Average capacity started to fall. And the only area with good non dropping shipments is the cloud providers and government datacenters.

From Seagate report.

Canon's consolidated operating profit for the year ending in December is expected to jump 40% to 330 billion yen ($2.94 billion).

Sales are also expected to top the company's 4.02 trillion yen forecast, climbing 20% to nearly 4.1 trillion yen.

Laser printer sales have grown in China and emerging countries in Southeast Asia. New high speed models have been popular. Sales of toner and other highly profitable consumables have also risen with the increase in printer sales.

Earnings at a medical device subsidiary purchased from Toshiba last year are healthy.

Canon is also cutting costs through automation. The introduction of robots to the company's single-lens reflex camera factory in Oita Prefecture has helped reduce the number of necessary workers for certain tasks from some 40 to just three or four. Automation at printer and other factories has also contributed to earnings growth by improving productivity.

The digital camera business is bouncing back. Sales of expensive interchangeable-lens cameras are recovering in the U.S. and elsewhere.

Group operating profit for the January-June half likely jumped 60% to around 170 billion yen. Profitability improved thanks to greater sales of printer consumables. Sales appear to have grown 20% to about 2 trillion yen.

Photokina will take place annually as of 2018. It will in future thus optimally reflect the fast-paced nature and the ever briefer innovation cycles of an increasingly digitalised industry. As of 2019 the trade fair will also have a new date in May. In addition to innovations from the core areas of the imaging workflow, the entire range of products, applications and services of relevance for imaging shall in future be presented in Cologne. With these changes, the transformation process begun in 2016 shall be consistently continued: under the umbrella of "Imaging Unlimited", Photokina last year inspired both exhibitors and visitors and accessed new target groups for the industry.

The digital transformation of the imaging industry is advancing, and thus opening up new perspectives and value creation potential. The new date and the annual cycle should in future make Photokina even more attractive to all providers of the imaging ecosystem. In this way, we show the specialised trade, the media and our users an even broader bandwidth of state-of-the-art products, applications and services in Cologne which especially suits the young imaging culture," Rainer Führes, chairman of the board of the photography industry association (PIV) is pleased to state.

The imaging ecosystem today also includes, in addition to the core areas from the imaging workflow, trend areas like virtual and augmented reality, cloud computing, as well as image recognition and holography. The growing flood of images and videos must be processed and administered, so that archiving and content management, social media and communities are coming increasingly into focus. Apps and software solutions have become indispensable both for professional use and for the end consumer. Smart home applications and computer-generated imaging are once again increasing in importance. Photokina should in future serve as an important international innovation platform.

Katharina C. Hamma, Chief Operating Officer of Koelnmesse GmbH, has a positive perspective on the future of the trade fair: “Photokina 2016 has shown us that this traditional brand in our portfolio has lost nothing of its attraction worldwide and in the region. The new concept has been a complete success. photokina has continued to develop further over time, as have the products, services and the market environment presented there. Now we are taking the next logical step by offering a digitally powered product environment an attractive annual platform for presenting the latest innovations and for entering into discussion with traders, specialist users and end customers."

For the 2018 event, only the series of days is changing: it will take place from Wednesday, 26.09. to Saturday, 29.09, and thus enables a more compact, more intensive trade fair experience.

Supports 20.48M-pixel readout at 21.98 frame/s in 12-bit mode
Supports all-pixel global reset (use with mechanical shutter)
Supports 4K video mode (4096H × 2160V, 10-bit mode, 59.94 frame/s)
Supports a variety of readout modes such as 10-bit high-speed all-pixel readout, 12-bit high-resolution readout, and vertical arbitrary cropping

High-sensitivity back-illuminated structure 2.4 µm square unit pixel with a proven record in products for security camera and industrial applications

Table 1 Device Structure Item IMX183CLK-J/CQJ-J Output image size Diagonal 15.86 mm (Type 1) aspect ratio 3:2 Number of effective pixels 5544 (H) × 3694 (V) approx. 20.48M pixels Unit cell size 2.4 µm (H) × 2.4 µm (V) Optical blacks Horizontal Front: 48 pixels, rear: 0 pixels Vertical Front: 16 pixels, rear: 0 pixels Input drive frequency 72 MHz Output Interface Sub-LVDS (576 Mbps / ch, Max.10 ch) *1 Package 118-pin LGA Supply voltage VDD (Typ.) 2.9 V / 1.8 V / 1.2 V

*1 Sensor slave mode only. Table 2 Image Sensor Characteristics Item Value Remarks Sensitivity (monochrome) Typ. [F8] 388 mV 1/30s accumulation G Sensitivity (color) Typ. [F5.6] 461 mV 1/30s accumulation Saturation signal Min. 942 mV Tj = 60 °C Table 3 Basic Drive Mode Drive mode Recommended number of recording pixels Frame rate [frame/s] ADC [bit] All-pixel scan (12 bit) *１ 5472 (H) × 3648 (V) 21.98 12 All-pixel scan (10 bit) *１ 5472 (H) × 3648 (V) 24.98 10 Type 1/1.4 approx.9.03M-Pixel (approx. 17:9) (10 bit) 4096 (H) × 2160 (V) 59.94 10 Vertical Arbitrary Cropping (10 bit) *2 5472 (H) × 1802 (V) to 5472 (H) × 3648 (V) 24.98 over 10

*1 These modes can be used together with the global reset shutter function. *2 In vertical arbitrary cropping area from type 1 approx. 20.48M pixels (3:2) all-pixel scan area is readout with 10-bit output.

*Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation reserves the right to change products and specifications without prior notice. This product is designed for consumer use applications, so the quality and reliability of the product are also the consumer use application range. This quality and reliability range should be kept in mind when using this product for other than consumer use applications.

The IMX183CQJ-J/CLK-J 20.48M-pixel CMOS image sensors have been newly developed for customers desiring image sensors with multi pixel for industrial applications. We developed both a color product (IMX183CQJ-J) and a monochrome product (IMX183CLK-J), and hope that customers will consider adopting these products for various applications.

Exceptional low-illumination performance

Exceptional low-illumination performance of SNR1s: 0.14 lx is realized by use of a large-size optical system and by expanding the area per pixel to 4.63 µm. This makes the IMX294CJK ideal for security camera market applications that require low-illumination performance.

High-speed movie imaging

This product realizes high-speed movie imaging with a 4K angle of view at the high frame rate of 120 frame/s, and also enables high-speed imaging at 60 frame/s in HDR drive mode.

In addition, use of our proprietary high-speed serial interface SLVS-EC together with high-speed imaging enables image transfer with few signal lines. This product is also equipped with a general-purpose MIPI (CSI-2) interface, and supports connection with a general-purpose ISP (Image Signal Processor).

Quad Bayer Coding HDR

The IMX294CJK uses a Quad Bayer structure, and outputs data binned in 2 × 2 pixel units in normal mode. In HDR mode, integration can be divided into long-time integration and short-time integration for each 2 pixels in the Quad array (Figure 1). In this case there is no time difference between long-time integration and short-time integration, which realizes HDR with little blending offset when imaging moving subjects.

http://news.adobe.com/press-release/creative-cloud/adobe-continues-drive-360-video-and-vr-innovation-acquisition-mettles https://www.mettle.com/adobe-acquires-mettle-skybox-suite/

Telegram PV channel, realtime posts

https://t.me/personal_view

Flikr group

https://www.flickr.com/groups/cine_gear/

Youtube channel

Personal View Youtube Channel

Our team

Paulo and Alan (at right)

http://www.mediaproductionshow.com/

Initially I'd got the impression that I'd find many stands for props, locations and specialist studios. In the event there was one stand for prop rental, one for derelict locations and 5 or so stands for very big (out of my league!) studios. So all in all I didn't find what I was expecting. From a PV perspective I guess many of us are in the independent boat where affordable locations and props can make a real contribution to our work.

However this show is smaller and more quiet than the BVE show which is held at Excel. The MPS show was held at the West Hall Olympia. All the main players were there, Holdan, BlackMagic, Cooke, Canon etc. I found it much easier to get onto the stands to look and try kit.

Around the periphery of the show there were many seminars, I stopped by to listen to a colour grading session about the new Resolve. It was presented by a jobbing colourist and in my view was both well presented and really useful - I now know a bit more about the face tracking features of Resolve.

At the moment I'm in the market for some thunderbolt 3 storage, because the big players were there I stopped by to check out their offerings. In both cases the systems on show had dreadful read speeds (sub 500MB/s). What was slightly more worrying is that the people on the stand didn't understand the performance and were of the view that it was a 'prototype firmware issue'.

I was quite taken by one stand that had built a sound isolated studio in an ISO container (the type seen on ships and lorries).

Would I go again? Well, if I happened to be in London perhaps, one of the main impressions I got from the show is that the vendors already knew who they expected to be there, and knew their key visitors by name.

Telegram PV channel, realtime posts

https://t.me/pv_nab_2017

Flikr group

https://www.flickr.com/groups/pv_nab_2017/

Youtube channel

Personal View Youtube Channel

Our team

Paulo and Alan (at right)

It is good tradition to make winter video contests on PV.

Terms

1. You can submit TWO videos made by you personally or your small team using any camera. Just post it in this topic.
2. You can submit any video made after contest start or up to 3 months prior of contest start.
3. Clip must reside on vimeo or youtube video hostings and must have in description "personal-view laing contest" text with link to contest page (for contest time).
4. Video must be between 2 and 10 minutes in length. if you think that video is very good you can submit longer videos.
5. Contest duration is until March 17, or as we reach 25 participants.

Winner selection

1. In this same topic any PV member registered before contest start date can post names of up to 3 videos that he likes most. Contest participants can also vote for videos if they are not their own.
2. Members with more than 500 posts can post names of up to 5 videos that they like most.
3. In the closing day I'll post up to 8 videos list I like most.
4. Member with video that will get most mentions in lists will be declared winner. Winner will have special status on forum for one year.
5. In situation where two or more videos get exactly same number of mentions topic will be reopen to allow more members to vote.

Prize - Laing H5 Steadicam, new 2016 model

• Work with any camera+ lens combination up to 2.8kg
• Weight is only 0.67kg, so you can use it with bare hands for prolonged time
• Very compact
• Exceptional manufacturing quality Laing is known for
• No charging required :-)

The US International Trade Commission (ITC) announced on Friday that it will begin a survey based on the Customs Law on suspicion of patent infringement on Nikon digital cameras, software and parts imported to the United States. If patent infringement will be found, there is a possibility that total ban on Nikon sales in the United States could happen.

In addition to Nikon, associated companies in the United States, China, Thailand and Indonesia are eligible.

http://www.sankeibiz.jp/business/news/170527/bsb1705271741004-n1.htm

Fellow will make a crowdsourcing campaign if he receives enough interest.

http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?158004-Let-s-make-STAR-LENS-TESTER-to-get-best-lens-copy-easily-(Airy-disk-PSF-point-source)

Their are other companies besides PowerVision that was linked in this forum that are making underwater submarine / drone. Here's info on the Gladius Submarine. It's currently at $625 for the HD version and $875 for the 4K version.