JVC recently showed both its 4K camera and projector products at a demo at the Soho Theatre in London. The combination has a lot of resolution and the projectors are frankly rather nice, but they're an odd coupling, at opposite ends of the price spectrum. »

Did Canon release a new camera recently, or something? A large part of the world is talking about an upgrade of the 5D, whereas the company itself is more interested in selling us a competitor to the Sony F3, and even admitting to some ambition that it'll take some of what might otherwise have... »

Blackmagic's Hyperdeck Shuttle is unashamedly targeted at a specific point on the continuum of size, weight and codec – it's tiny and simple, and it records anything up to 10-bit 1080p30 YUV with no compression at all. But the big deal is that the Hyperdeck Shuttle only costs about $300. That's very, very keen... »

It's common at NAB to see things with “camera” written on them which would perhaps be more accurately termed “camera-shaped box representing our wildest imagination.” For some reason, IBC doesn't seem to suffer so badly from this, with the intervening few months apparently enough to crank out a prototype and discover which of management's... »

People have been trying to find ways to motivate photons, (with the minimum possible effort), more or less since the discovery of fire. Now, there’s new technology on the horizon – light emitting plasma, which is automatically great because it sounds like a system they’d use on the starship Enterprise. »

Much as I’ve sworn off greater promotion of the big guys, the big camera news for me this year was Sony’s F65 4K camera. Ok, this wasn’t exactly new news at the show, as it was known about for a while beforehand, but there were several opportunities to see what’s effectively quad HD being... »

I'm worried. Ordinarily, an industry journalist at this time of year is forced into an undignified clamber over huge drifts of pre-NAB press releases just to reach the mailbox, but this year it's been suspiciously quiet. More experienced hands tell me that this isn't necessarily a bad sign, though, and I shouldn't expect to... »

I hadn't intended to go to BVE Expo with NAB just around the corner. Things in the British industry, (and I'll be crucified on a C-stand for saying this), are often a cheap imitation of American practice at the best of times, and this is infamously not the best of times. Because of... »

So let’s get the obvious stuff out of the way first – you couldn’t get on the show floor at NAB this year without tripping over some teetering Rube Goldberg contraption with two lenses on the front. While the idea of stereoscopy was there in force, though, I expected at least a couple of... »

The Previsualization Society, a new non-profit, interdisciplinary organization dedicated to advancing previsualization in feature film, games, commercials and architecture, has launched a new online portal, and issued a call for membership. The initiatives are part of the organization’s ramp-up activities in its inaugural year. Founded in September, the group aims to cultivate a community... »