General and News

HDMI to HD-SDI to External Recorder???

kholi — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:03:53 +0000

This is a topic I cannot find.

Sorry if it's been mentioned. My TVLogic can string the HDMI signal out to HD-SDI, and I can actually ingest HD-SDI on my Mac tower... Has anyone tried this? I think the only reason I'd do it is for VFX work (greenscreen), problem would be that the TV-Logic spits out a 720 not a 1080.

if it's been tried, please close thread and provide link. Thanks.

Panansonic IR interview - talks about GH2 hacker community

spirit — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 05:05:15 +0000

Thought some of you might find this interesting - first time I've really heard what Panasonic thinks about the GH2 hacker community - seems quite positive!

http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2012/01/15/panasonic-learning-from-the-fringe-taking-small-steps

Looking for guys and donations to cover CES and NAMM

Vitaliy_Kiselev — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 03:23:19 +0000

We are looking for guys with some expirience who'll cover this exhibitions for our members.

You'll be paid via donations of our members (plus I have some reserve for this)
Plus you'll have right to have link and information about yourself or your firm in every message from exhibition.

Same thing for our members.
If we'll find suitable candidate in next few days, we'll start collecting donations for this.
And everyone donating $10 or more will have right to ask for specific things to cover.

See http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/1861/2012-shows-and-exhibitions#Item_8
For list of main 2012 shows.

2012 Shows and exhibitions

Vitaliy_Kiselev — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 23:09:27 +0000

I'll try to list interesting 2012 shows and exhibitions here.

CES 2012
January 10-13
Las Vegas, Nevada USA
http://www.cesweb.org/

NAMM 2012,
January 19-22 Anahaim California USA,
http://www.namm.org/thenammshow/2012

BSC Show 2012
3-4 February 2012, UK
The United Kingdom’s premier exhibition dedicated solely to showcasing the equipment, facilities and services used in the craft of film and television production
http://www.bscexpo.com/

NAB 2012
Conferences
April 14 – 19, 2012; Exhibits April 16 – 19
Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada USA
http://www.nabshow.com/

Photokina 2012, will be held in Cologne, Germany on
18-Sep-2012 (up tp 23) in Cologne International Expocentre.
http://www.photokina.com

Happy New 2012 Year!

Vitaliy_Kiselev — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 05:06:14 +0000

Want to congratulate all our community members, and wish them big luck in 2012.

Yep, economics will be worse. But fuck it. We are all smart here, could live with it, all of us will live better in the uncoming year, I am sure:-).
No one makes tragedy from temperature changes (except TV girls, of course). So, fuck it.

Now back to the community.

We are not large. But.
Right now we are the only community in the field:
1) Without any affilation with big shops (despite requests from them :-) )
2) Without any advertisments
3) Without on the fly links exchange
4) Without any required payments to post about software or products made by you
5) Without any lengthly and scary rules.
6) With financing by community itself.
8) Place where guys with sole purpose of choosing new camera to improve their slideshows are not treated as primadonnas (why? see 1-3 )
7) With best signal to noise ratio.

Good community must be like "One big, happy... if slightly dysfunctional... family" (this is quote from the film I like, if you don't know)

In upcoming year we'll be larger, but will be keeping our signal to noise. Introducing new features.
Developing new hacks. Doing many other things.

Merry Christmas!

cbrandin — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 15:33:38 +0000

Matches VK's snow theme...

Computers versus cameras - a 30-year perspective

LPowell — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:11:25 +0000

I'm struck by how closely the current video camera competition resembles the computer rivalries of 30 years ago. At that time, the computer industry was split into several camps with radically different perspectives:

* Mainframe companies, notably IBM, well established in the corporate world.

* Minicomputer companies, notably DEC, who had successfully targeted the small business market.

* Apple Computer, whose Apple II emerged as the leader of the pack of late 70's home computers.

* The PC-clone industry, leveraging its wide-open platform with dramatic leaps in microcomputing power and versatility.

The video world's mainframes are the Arri Alexa and Sony F35, with well-earned professional reputations and industry-standard workflows.

Much like DEC with its relatively inexpensive stand-alone minicomputers, RED's upstart marketing won over the hearts and minds of independent filmmakers, delivering a fresh alternative to the hidebound corporate studio system.

Following in Apple's footsteps, Canon emerged as the winner of the DSLR video sweepstakes, with a product that wasn't originally designed for film making. In both cases it was a cottage industry of add-on enhancements that made the Apple II and 5D Mark II into useful semi-professional tools.

As with the IBM PC, the Panasonic GH1 was marketed by a major corporation as a generic mass consumer product based on an open technology platform. Both products attracted swarms of Far East cloners and DIY hackers whose turbo-charged results far outstripped the foresight of their corporate godfathers.

It's also interesting to reflect on the strategic moves the major computer manufacturers made at a comparable point in computing history:

* The mainframe companies continued with business as usual, oblivious to the long-term threat posed by the rapid evolution of their smaller competitiors.

* DEC produced the VAX, the first 32-bit terminal-based minicomputer of its era. The RAW 4K capabilities of REDs Epic platform evokes the affordable raw computing power that was the VAX.

* Apple produced the Lisa, the first consumer PC with a graphical user interface, targeting the small business market with an expensive, yet underpowered box. Will the Canon C300's high price tag and mediocre technology consign it to the same fate as the Lisa? Will the 1D-X become the Macintosh of the DSLR world?

* Spurred on by the accelerating market pressure of the unconstrained PC-clone industry, the PC mutated out of IBM's control into a do-it-all computer that could be cheaply configured to suit your own needs. As with the hacked GH2, PC-clones were widely disparaged as unreliable and unprofessional, good for little more than personal entertainment...

'Brinicle' ice finger of death filmed in Antarctic

otcx — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 01:44:58 +0000

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/15835017

More image manipulation magic from Siggraph

bimdas — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 00:00:20 +0000

Another tech Adobe can buy. Realistic insertion of objects and lights into photographs. I dont see why this cant also be used for video.
http://kevinkarsch.com/publications/sa11.html

November 3rd

Vitaliy_Kiselev — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 10:42:44 +0000

As you know, many people wait for this day, hoping to see 8k, transparent 3d, 18 stops camera from Canon and another announcment from Red (now with 2050 release date).

Please post here your expectations and bets on features and prices.

The Science & Technology of Digital Image Sensors

Vitaliy_Kiselev — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 05:06:32 +0000

Toshiba makes 2,560x1,600 6.1" screen

Vitaliy_Kiselev — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 08:20:01 +0000

Toshiba Mobile Display Co., Ltd. today announced that it has developed a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel that features a world-class, high-definition 498 pixels-per-inch (ppi) image in a direct-view, compact 6.1-inch screen. Despite the small screen size, the display resolution format is 2,560 × 1,600 pixels, a higher resolution than even the full HD resolution format of 1,920 by 1,080 pixels.

This newly-developed world-class, high-definition LCD panel is based on our processing techniques for forming fine-pitch and high-performance, low-temperature poly-silicon (LTPS) thin-film transistors (TFT) on glass substrates, and other precise fabrication techniques which have been cultivated over the years. This direct-view LCD panel achieves high-definition images with photographic quality, and although the images are displayed in 2D format, they impart a sense of depth and realism.

This technology will be exhibited at the TMD booth #3601 in the FPD International 2011 exhibition, to be held in Pacifico Yokohama from October 26 to 28, 2011.

Screen size - 6.1 in.
Number of pixels - 2,560(H)×RGB×1,600(V)
Pixel density - 498 PPI
Contrast ratio - 1000:1
Field of view: Vertical: 176° or more Horizontal: 176° or more (with contrast ratio ≥ 10:1)
Color gamut: 61% (NTSC gamut, CIE1931)

Roland iModela

Vitaliy_Kiselev — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 21:04:14 +0000

Via: http://www.rolanddg.com/news/nr111005_im-01.html

new Sandisk 95mb/s WOW

PerryWilson — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:08:43 +0000

took a visit to the sandisk website today to see they have a new Extreme Pro SD in 8-64gb with read speed of 95 and write speeds of 90mb/s WOW thats fast, should have no issues with future patches seeing as how Im shooting heavy patches not with the 45mb/s card http://www.sandisk.com/products/dslr/sandisk-extreme-pro-sdhcsdxc-uhs-i-memory-cards

Canon Hollywood Professional Technology and Support Center

bleach551 — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:12:41 +0000

Saw this over at DVINFO. I hope this is not the news they were going to announce on the 3rd of November

Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging, today announced the opening of the Canon Hollywood Professional Technology and Support Center to better serve its film and television production clients. The office, located on the historic Sunset Gower Studio lot at 6060 Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, will provide a local site to foster support, research, service and training for Hollywood’s thriving entertainment industry.

“We want to offer a one-stop shop where our clients can come to ask questions and explore our various products with the help of our highly qualified technical and engineering staff members. The Canon Hollywood Professional Technology and Support Center provides a well-equipped venue for working with professionals in a range of imaging industries, from film and television production to still imaging and professional output,” stated Yuichi Ishizuka, executive vice president and general manager, Imaging Technologies and Communications Group, Canon U.S.A.

Comprehensive product repair services for Canon professional products will be available in the new Hollywood facility starting in late 2011. On-site repair operations will include two state-of-the-art camera body and lens adjustment rooms, Canon’s most advanced adjustment and calibration equipment, local spare parts inventory, and an experienced professional repair staff that will look to quickly return Canon’s professional products to their original factory condition and operation.

Via: http://www.dvinfo.net/news/canon-hollywood-professional-technology-and-support-center-premieres-in-los-angeles.html

Zacuto Great Camera Shootout 2011 Episode 3

bleach551 — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 20:03:21 +0000

Here is a link to the final Episode to this series. Listen To the Suprise at the end.

http://www.zacuto.com/the-great-camera-shootout-2011/episode-three

Jamie King's VODO.NET

driftwood — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 11:36:09 +0000

My girlfriend has just come back from the Improving Reality conference in Brighton UK. VoDo net seems to be a really interesting model of distributing and potentially financing independent film that makes sophisticated use of social networking, crowd funding and p2p sharing and opinion forming. It bypasses the corporates and seems a good future model (based on the increasing capability for mass mobile storage and the pointlessness of trying to make money from IP). What we like about it is, that it is based on a presumption that people will voluntarily support things that they like - with money, time and ideas (like we do here on Personal View) What do you all think?
http://vodo.net/

Upcoming Nikon mirrorless cameras

Vitaliy_Kiselev — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 00:12:18 +0000

The two models of the Nikon mirrorless camera will be called Nikon V1 and Nikon J1
Both bodies will be identical, except that one will have a self timer LED on the top right and different colors for the lens release button.
Nikon V1 will have a built-in high resolution EVF. The Nikon J1 will not have an EVF .

•Cameras will have both phase and contrast AF detection
•10.1MP
•ISO range: 100-3200 (with H1-6400)
•CCD sensor (WTF? It'll be CMOS for sure.)
•Both cameras will have 2.7x crop factor
•3 in. LCD screen
•The J1 model will have a built-in flash
•The V1 will not have a built-in flash but it will have a multi-accessory port which will support external flash and a GPS device
•No traditional flash hot shoe on both models
•There will be a F-mount adapter
•Both cameras will probably be made of plastic
•Full HD movie with many additional features
•EXPEED 3 processor with 600 megapixels per second processing power

The four mirrorless lenses are:
•10mm f/2.8 pancake lens
•10-30mm f/3.5-5.6 VR lens (very short and portable)
•10-100mm f/4.5-5.6 VR
•30-110mm VR

The company will price the mirrorless camera plus lens at 70,000 yen-100,000 yen ($900-$1,300), which is on a par with rivals’ offerings

Read more on NikonRumors.com: http://nikonrumors.com/2011/09/09/nikon-v1-and-j1-the-new-mirrorless-cameras-from-nikon.aspx/#ixzz1XWGKwVah

Something new from canon on the 3rd of November

bleach551 — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 20:21:55 +0000

According to Chris Hurd from dvinfo.net, Canon will make a big announcement in Hollywood on Nov.3rd.

http://www.dvinfo.net/forum/digital-video-industry-news/500720-something-new-canon-nov-3rd.html

Firmware update of Pana Vario 100-300mm

valdi99 — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 13:17:42 +0000

http://panasonic.jp/support/global/cs/dsc/download/fts/index2.html

Anybody tested above with GH2 hacked? Any problems after update?

IBC 2011 in Amsterdam

Vitaliy_Kiselev — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:39:04 +0000

Via:
http://philipbloom.net/2011/09/09/ace/

I''ll be adding information here as soon as I'll get it.

Leave here message or send me PM if you'll be at IBC and could cover some other aspects of this exhibition.

Can't record 720p with monitor out to Small HD

pixelloft — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 12:52:18 +0000

Sorry if this is a stupid question, i have searched the web and the forum. I am prepping for a shoot on the Alexa tomorrow, using the GH2 as a B camera. The camera defaults to 1080i recording when HDMI is plugged in so i can't shoot 720p60 with an HDMI monitor plugged in. Is this correct. Is there a work around?

Thanks.

Sony sensors presentation

Vitaliy_Kiselev — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 04:51:58 +0000

Panasonic entry digital cameras production in Taiwan

Vitaliy_Kiselev — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 18:01:38 +0000

Panasonic has released orders for entry-level digital cameras to EMS provider Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) to minimize production cost, according to industry sources.

Taiwan-based Ability Enterprise is expected to receive orders for high-end digital cameras from Panasonic in 2012, the sources said.

Via: http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20110831PD200.html

Transcend Class 10 SDHC Media Recall

Anpanman — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 23:19:14 +0000

Transcend has issued a recall for defective Class 10 SDHC cards. Here is the email that is being sent out.

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We have recently learned that Transcend Information is voluntarily recalling the Transcend 16 GB Class 10 SDHC Flash Memory Card TS16GSDHC10E.
Items impacted by this recall were sold between July 28 and August 15, 2011. Due to a manufacture process issue, the item subjected to this recall might cause read/write blocking if the file size is over 4GB and the information on the card may not transfer.

The SDHC cards impacted have a serial number between 446136 0001 to 446136 9999 and 446121 0001 to 446121 9999. In order to identify the serial number of your card, please refer to the number in green on the right side of the back of the card.

If your product is affected, you should contact the manufacturer, Transcend Information, for a replacement. If you would like to apply for an online return request, please follow the instruction at the following link to complete the replacement process: http://www.transcendusa.com/support/rma_en/

If you need additional info about this recall or further assistance, please contact Transcend Information’s customer service via email at techsupport@transcendusa.com or by phone at (714) 921-2000.

If you purchased this item as a gift for someone, please notify the recipient immediately and provide them with the information in the above bulletin concerning these issues.

BIRTV 2011 exhibition

Vitaliy_Kiselev — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 02:46:04 +0000

As you may know, most Chinese manufacturers are now at this exhibition.
Busy time.

Some news

Pro-X launch camcorder shoulder support with bars and VCT quick release

Fishbone mobile jib (I have some stuff from them, they know how to make sturdy things)

Taurus DSLR monorail rig and dolly

Beijing Brightcast LED ringlight and studio lights

EImage (Weifeng, Fancier) carbon fibre tripod and follow focus

Via: http://vimeo.com/danchung/videos/sort:date

LG AH-IPS 4.5-inch 1280×720 display

Vitaliy_Kiselev — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 21:45:20 +0000

LG’s Advanced High Performance In-Plane Switching (IPS) LCD display could be powering the next generation of “superphones” from a number of handset makers. LG has recently received props about its color accuracy from Intertek, a company that specializes in certifying the quality of various technologies and products.

I’m not familiar with Intertek’s tests, but according to LG, their conclusion pretty much says what we already knew: just like IPS, AH-IPS, has a better color accuracy than its arch-rival AMOLED, which is a Samsung technology.LG will also be quick to point out that IPS consumes the same power regardless of whether or not, it is displaying a bright or dark image. AMOLED power consumption fluctuates depending of the nature of the content, but LG’s point was that in the worst case scenario, AH-IPS still beats AMOLED in power consumption. Although we have not run these tests ourselves, I’ve brought this up a few times with Samsung, and no-one has ever contested LG’s claim.

Via: http://www.ubergizmo.com/2011/08/lg-ah-ips-4-5-display/

Wow - Panasonic ‘impressed’ with GH2 hack, vow to bring 25p update

Felix — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 16:06:36 +0000

In an interview with EPhotozine Panasonic talk X lenses (as first exclusively revealed by EOSHD last week) and the GH2.

Mr Uetmasu product developer:

A firmware update may be coming for the GH2 to add support for 25p, and additional improvements in video abilities. If there are features you want adding, contact Panasonic and let them know. They are aware of the work the “hackers” are doing and are impressed with their work, but that they (Panasonic) need to test everything / confirm there are no problems before rolling out updates. The GH3 is not due imminently, as the GH2 is still extremely popular, but that there is a high end GF series camera in the works.

Will be interesting to see what the ‘other’ video improvements are! Hopefully AF tracking and 60p.

Source - http://www.eoshd.com/content/3814/panasonic-impressed-with-gh2-hack-vow-to-bring-25p-update

Does this mean our (my) 25p prayers have been answered???

Philips is selling 70 percent stake of its HDTV business to HK based company

Vitaliy_Kiselev — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 06:09:45 +0000

It is always fun to see Apple future and past all in present time :-)
Even more funny is to read many comments about "end of TV era" and "Apple to enter TV market" (supposely to destroy it).
Get real. People are not stupid. Design house can't live for very long time.
Especially if it thinks that he can sue normal manufacturers.

The Great Camera Shootout 2011: Episode Two

Elenion — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 05:43:56 +0000

It is finally out.
I'd like to see how the gh2 performs between these monsters!

http://www.zacuto.com/the-great-camera-shootout-2011/episode-two