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Digital cameras that imitate the look and handling of 8mm film have moved from novelty to a visible product category. The Camp Snap CS-8 is already on sale and, according to its maker, selling in large numbers, while the Aura6 has just launched on Kickstarter with a stricter take on the same idea. Both cameras remove t
Netflix is cutting around 1,000 jobs, roughly 6% of its global workforce, in its largest round of layoffs since 2022. The cuts fall mostly on product, technology, legal and human resources teams, and come only months after the streamer lost the fight for Warner Bros. to Paramount. So what does a leaner Netflix mean for
Tomorrow, Friday October 23, anyone in Vienna, Austria, can step onto a tennis court, hit a ball, and walk away with a cinematic super slow motion clip of themselves, captured by a camera robot at up to 1,000 frames per second. It is free, there is no registration, and you just stop by. We are calling it Your Shot, and
A growing number of video editors are now built around AI and open-source components, some of them by small teams or a single developer. Three current examples take very different routes: cinemaOS is a Mac subscription app with an on-device assistant, CUTROOM is a free open-source editor that runs locally, and invideo
Blackmagic Design has started a limited-time sale that takes 20% off DaVinci Resolve Studio 21. The company ties the offer to the AI tools in the paid version and to new Apple and NVIDIA processors. Six DaVinci Resolve control panels and editing keyboards are also part of the deal, so let’s look at what the prices are
The Blackmagic Design price raise hits 36 products at once: the ATEM 4 M/E Constellation IP Plus alone jumps from about $13,000 to $20,000, with SMPTE 2110 converters, Cloud Store and HyperDeck recorders following – all blamed on memory costs. In the same breath, Blackmagic cuts DaVinci Resolve Studio 21 and its editin
Blackmagic Design has raised prices on 36 products, and the company names rising memory costs as the reason. The list covers ATEM switchers, SMPTE 2110 IP converters, DeckLink cards, HyperDeck recorders, and Cloud Store network storage, with increases from $20 to almost $7,000 per product. Let’s take a closer look at t
Sony has introduced the ECM-W5, a two-transmitter, one-receiver wireless microphone system that sends 32-bit float audio digitally into compatible Sony cameras through the Multi Interface (MI) Shoe. Each transmitter records an internal backup to up to 64GB of storage, the system supports timecode and up to four channel
Cooke Optics has introduced the S4 FF/i, a full-frame evolution of its S4/i Super 35 primes. The set has six T2.0 lenses from 18mm to 100mm, a common 87mm front diameter and close focus that averages just over 15 inches. With the original S4/i out of production since the start of 2025, the new series puts the S4 name b
SmallRig sells two shoulder rigs with almost the same name: the Shoulder Rig Kit (Pro) 4274B and the Shoulder Rig Kit (Classic Version) 4480B. One costs $419.99, the other $169.99, and they are built on different ideas. Here is what the extra $250 gets you, and what the Pro kit leaves out of the box. The Shoulder Rig K
ARRI has released Software Update Package 6.2.0 for the ALEXA 35, ALEXA 35 Xtreme, ALEXA 35 Live and ALEXA 265. The update connects the Focusbug Cine RT rangefinder directly to the camera’s SERIAL port, shares focus marks between camera and Hi-5 hand unit, and adds depth of field ramping for live productions. SUP 6.2.0
Z CAM has released firmware 0.9.10 for the E2-F6 Pro, and it adds internal Apple ProRes RAW recording. According to Z CAM, the full-frame cinema camera can now record ProRes RAW in-camera at up to 6K 60fps. Until now, a RAW workflow on Z CAM’s E2 bodies meant an external recorder, so this update changes what the E2-F6
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