Major iPhone assembler Hon Hai Precision Industry, better known as Foxconn Technology Group, said on Sunday that it plans to team up with premium camera maker RED Digital Cinema to make professional-quality and affordable film cameras for the general public, while expanding into the manufacture of semiconductors for displays and cameras. Those moves come as […]
Adorama Rental Joins AbelCine, OffHollywood with New RED 6K Dragon
The RED Epic with the 6K Dragon Sensor became available last year, almost two years after the the original announcement. Of course being a small company, developing bleeding edge technology can be messy. But the new cameras are finally turning up. Each is produced to order by hand, with prior RED Epic owners among the […]
Adorama Rental Joins AbelCine, OffHollywood with New RED 6K Dragon
The RED Epic with the 6K Dragon Sensor became available last year, almost two years after the the original announcement. Of course being a small company, developing bleeding edge technology can be messy. But the new cameras are finally turning up. Each is produced to order by hand, with prior RED Epic owners among the […]
NAB 2014 Photo Diary – Day One
Here are images and some thoughts from our walking the floors at NAB 2014. The annual Las Vegas-based conference reigns as the largest event aimed at those in video production and post. The show and convention center are plain big: some 98,000 folks walked the 3 million + square feet of floors in the four […]
Hear Dave Satin Discuss a Digital Image Technician’s Job
At our January In Person event, Dave Satin offered his viewpoint on how the digital revolution in production created his job, and what it means for the future of production. In this exclusive two part series, we spoke with Satin to gain more details on what goes into a DIT’s job on set, what he includes in his Mac based un-compressed recording system that he takes on set, and more…
No Surprise: HP is Number One in Workstations. Where’s the Mac Pro?
Everybody likes to be right now and again. Sometimes it’s easy to do too…
A Look Back at NAB 2012, Part One
What? A review of NAB one month after it started? What can you be thinking? I’ve never been a fan of instant analysis of new technology. That’s especially the case when it comes to a frenetically paced show like NAB. Most every company thinks–or at least hopes–that it has the potential hit technology of the […]
Will 3D or 4K triumph?
I begin my first NYC Production & Post News column with the question: will 3D or 4K triumph?
Sony & Adobe Double Down
This week we check out new technologies that could topple leading companies, consider if New York production incentives are fair, and bid farewell to two pioneering filmmakers…
Was Tribeca Film Fest 2011 Worth It?
This week we hear some final takes on the 2011 Tribeca film Festival, find out that a farm grows on a production studio in Brooklyn, and get a sense of what’s coming for augmented reality via an in-depth interview with sci-fi visionary Bruce Sterling…