With this in mind, Abel and PortaBrace worked together to develop the “ultimate” HDSLR shooter’s case. The goal was to fit a camera built with front rods, follow focus, mattebox and optical viewfinder, along with a complete set of prime lenses or zooms, an HDMI/HD-SDI converter, and lots of batteries, chargers, CF cards, etc. It had to be easy to run around with on a shoot and fit inside a hardcase for shipping. After much work with PortaBrace, reconfiguring some products and creating new ones, we think we’ve come up with the Ultimate HDSLR Travel Kit. Take a look at the video to see more.

The Cinedeck’s monitor offers functions such as waveform, vectorscope, false-color exposure meter, audio meters, pixel-to-pixel zoom for focus, grid and frameline overlays, etc. All this in a package about the same size of a standard on-board LCD.

Watch the video for more on the Cinedeck Extreme and to see it mounted to the new ARRI ALEXA Digital Cinema camera.

Need a small portable daylight lamp with a lot of punch? How about a lightweight three light kit? What about a camera ringlight? Need to power them off a single circuit? What about off battery power? You want all of this and don’t want to bring a grip truck along to carry it all?

The IANILED54 is a versatile light system that can function as a three light kit or as a single powerful LED unit. It can be battery or AC powered. Three concentric rings of LED lights can be used as individual units or mounted together as a single powerful fixture. Each light section features dimmer control as well as Ianiro’s unique color balance control. The complete kit can be powered from a single camera battery with on board mounts available for Anton Bauer or V-mount bricks. There are more options available in this clever light; check out the video to see.

Abel will also be showing off the IANILED54 at Cine Gear today, so stop by our booth #S209!

Nevertheless, there has always been a great deal of confusion associated with the focal length of lenses and their relationship to the size of the image area.

I’ve read many explanations in various books and on the internet over the years and authored some of them myself. But often written explanations confuse as much as they explain. If a picture is worth a 1000 words, I figure this video is equal to a small novella on the subject. Many people seem to use the various optical terms incorrectly or interchangeably, so I figured showing what happens would help demystify the concepts involved.