Panasonic (Companies)

This global brand is an industry leader in professional video products for broadcast, production, sports production, corporate and government markets. The company’s breakthroughs in video acquisition, recording and recording media have been honored with 17 Technology and Engineering Emmys, for t

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TV Leaps Into 2021 At Virtual CES January 28th 2021 - 09:00 AM

TV Leaps Into 2021 At Virtual CES

In modern consumer electronics history, every new year begins with an early January Consumer Electronics Show, followed by the April NAB Show, both in Las Vegas. Significant new home and broadcast video and audio technologies are often rolled out at both shows, targeted for near-opposite markets wanting to enjoy or

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Creative Analysis: Part 6 - The Middle Man With DOP John Christian Rosenlund September 9th 2020 - 09:00 AM

Creative Analysis: Part 6 - The Middle Man With DOP John Christian Rosenlund

Director of photography John Christian Rosenlund has at least a three-decade history with director Bent Hamer. Their most recent collaboration, The Middle Man, depicts a town in the northern United States during a post-industrial depression. It’s perhaps not a subject instinctively associated with Rosenlund and Hamer’s Norwegian roots, tho

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DOPs & Post Production: Is This Our New Livelihood? September 7th 2020 - 09:00 AM

DOPs & Post Production: Is This Our New Livelihood?

Before pandemics and the downsizing at traditional, broadcast news operations, many news and non-fiction DOPs were already assuming a significant role in post-production. Whereas frame rates, f-stops, and the character of our lenses, once formed the backbone of our expertise and practice, DOPs in the non-theatrical realm increasingly find ourselves

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We Need Perfect Lenses After All April 2nd 2020 - 01:00 PM

We Need Perfect Lenses After All

Veteran cinematographers and DOPs have long understood that lenses have a personality with a specific look and feel. In the same way that an actor imparts his or her interpretation on a film’s story, the DOP selects a lens that best supports the program’s emotional stakes. The ideal cam

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The NAB That Wasn’t March 30th 2020 - 09:00 AM

The NAB That Wasn’t

Due to the medical emergency the country now finds itself in, this year’s NAB Show in Las Vegas was postponed to later this year. If it had happened, the main themes of artificial intelligence (AI), high dynamic range (HDR) acquisition and remote production would have all been front and c

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