video archives (284 posts)
Hackery for Rental: GoPro Hero3 with custom housing that takes C-mount lenses, February 21, 2013
What if you wanted to shoot with the GoPro Hero 3 but wanted to use your favorite C-mount lenses? And what if you only wanted to rent this creature but not buy it? If the answer to all of the...
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Patent Wars: RED sues Sony, alleging pattern infringement with Sony F5, F55, F65, February 17, 2013
Shortly after the RED vs ARRI spy vs spy case was dismissed, RED is back in the Legal Eagles headlines with a new lawsuit, this time targeting Sony and citing *you guessed it* patent infringement. The offending cameras include Sony's...
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Canon 1D C tested by Philip Bloom and Johnnie Behiri, January 27, 2013
Canon certainly showed where its priorities were in 2012 as new digital video-priority releases overwhelmed stills camera releases. One of them was the Canon 1D C video-priority DSLR, with a big price premium over the 1D X. The 1D C...
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Video: New H.265 video format is approved by the Central Committee, January 25, 2013
The ITU (International Telecommunication Union) finally saw smoke coming out of the digital chimney and decided upon the new H.265 video standard that promises significant performance improvements - half the bit rate of its predecessor according to the press release....
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New Vine app for Twitter (iOS) records and embeds up to 6 sec of video, January 24, 2013
Twitter may have had its photo-sharing setback when Instagram pulled out of the automated embedding of Instagram pictures in tweets, but they picked up new photo sharing service embeds, and now, they are adding a video sharing option Twitter-style using...
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New KineRAW Mini S35 camera initial specifications revealed, January 15, 2013
Chinese company Kinefinity has revealed the initial specifications of their second Super35 digital video camera, the KineRAW Mini S35, a smaller, more compact and more affordable version of their first camera. Details, opinions, and initial specifications can be found through...
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Metabones reveals new Speed Booster adapter with bold claims: reduce focal length, increase speed of lens (focal reducer) [M43, NEX] {with hands-on reports!}, January 14, 2013
Metabones waited until after the CES + PMA 2013 dust settled before making their announcement, a new Speed Booster for Micro Four Thirds and Sony NEX e-mount, "reducing" the focal length of a lens and at the same time "increasing"...
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New Canon Cinema Prime L-Lenses: 14 T3.1 and 135 T2.2, January 10, 2013
Canon DSLR fans may perhaps be justified in feeling that Canon is paying more attention to video and not paying as much attention to their DSLRs at the moment. Case in point, Canon has announced two new Cinema prime L-lenses,...
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More pictures of the Sony 4K Handycam behind glass NF prototype, January 9, 2013
At last year's CES, 3D was all the rage. This year, 4K is all the rage. There are waves of 4K product announcements and development notices. One of those is in the world of camera and photo, a behind glass...
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Sony shows prototype 4K Handycam for consumers (and 4K Interface Unit) [corrected], January 8, 2013
Just when you think you made enough progress with your Blu-Ray/1080p video collection, the consumer electronics manufacturers start falling in love with 4K! Case in point, the Sony CES 2013 press event that was live-blogged and now is available archived...
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New Canon KJ20x8.2B KRSD multipurpose 2/3” HD zoom lens for video, January 7, 2013
But wait, there's one more new imaging product from Canon revealed at Canon Europe, it is the Canon KJ20x8.2B KRSD, a multipurpose 2/3” HD zoom lens for video cameras.
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Canon announces four new HF Vixia camcorders, January 7, 2013
The pinocchio superzoom wars continue in the world of video as well. Canon has just announced four new Vixia HF camcorders, three of which are in the R*-series with a 53x "advanced zoom" each, DIGIC DV IV, a 3mp CMOS...
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Near-instant video uploads with new YouTube Capture app (iOS only for now), December 17, 2012
The ever-increasing power of mobile devices and speed of networks has enabled yet another new development in the world of recording. YouTube has launched the YouTube Capture app (iOS) that allows you to record a video and then upload it...
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New Fuji video lenses: 85-300mm PL zoom and ultra-wide HDTV lens, November 14, 2012
Fuji did not just stumble into making lenses with the X system, they have a long history of Fujinon lenses, and today they added two more video lenses in the future Fuji history books. The first of the two lenses...
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New M43rds Video Camera: Panasonic AG-AF10XA (names vary by region), November 5, 2012
We have our first November surprise! It is a new interchangeable lens camera of the micro four thirds variety whose existential raisin (rough translation of popular french phrase raison d^etre) is to serve the world of digital video. It is...
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