Hi, Carl here for ProAV TV and welcome to Up to Speed.
This is going to be a new quick weekly news roundup, designed to give you a simple one
stop shop brief overview of whats happening in the industry.
We will let you know about new products, technology advancements and any offers and deals we are
doing which could save you money, so keep an eye out every Friday for a new video to
make sure your up to speed.
So lets get started!
This week has seen the announcement of one of the biggest advancements in lens technology
in the last 80 years, perhaps ever.
Researchers led by Federico Capasso from Harvard have created what they are calling a ‘Metalens’
Its a completely knew lens technology that uses a fabricated material to replace glass,
changing the entire way a lens works.
These Metalenses are incredibly thin, the example is 2mm Wide.
And could potentially give better image quality than some current optical lenses, especially
the small ones in smartphones and the like.
Another big advantage of this lens technology is that it would be much easier to mass manufacture,
this could bring the price of lenses built this way right down, meaning smaller, lighter
lenses which are much more affordable.
While on the subject of lenses SLR Magic has announced two new lenses for Full frame Sony
Cameras, a 35mm F1.2 and a 75mm F1.4.
They are both fully manual lenses with geared focus and aperture rings which is great to
see.
We haven't got exact pricing yet, but it looks to be in line with competition like the Samyang
primes so could be very popular.
The Raw update for the Sony FS5 is starting to make its way into the wild.
Paul Antico from Anticipate Media has put up a fantastic blog post, going through how
he installed it and showing some footage, using it out and about recording into the
Atoms Shogun in Prores 422.
To be honest the difference in quality with the Prores over the internal XAVC-L isn't
extraordinary, after all Sony does a great job with the quality these cameras can record
internally, but if you use a recorder which can record the RAW in CinemaDNG you'll be
able to unlock all the normal benefits of using RAW, and i’m really looking forward
to seeing what you guys manage to capture using that.
G-Technology have announced some Atomos compatible products, a replacement for the master-caddy
that Atomos use which fits into their own dock system.
This can either be used by itself via a USB-C connector on the back, or it can be slotted
into their G-Dock Evolution series of products for a convenient docking system.
You may have heard about a big earthquake in Japan which put a major Sony sensor factory
out of action in April.
This has caused major delays on Sony products but we happy to tell you that we are starting
to see small amounts of stock coming through now, so if you are waiting for a sony order,
you hopefully shouldn't be waiting too much longer.
In case you missed it we have started a new system of regular discounts which we are calling
our deal of the week.
Its been running for a few weeks now and has been getting a great reaction.
And this week we have our popular Lishuai Daylight 1 by 1 panel the LED1000 down to
a crazy low price of £255 plus VAT.
So check that out if you are looking for some affordable high quality lighting.
We also have a deal currently running on the Panasonic DVX-200 giving you £230 off, this
will run until September so make sure you don't miss that if your interested in the
camera.
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