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Muwi: Cheap, portable, modular camera slider to elevate your smartphone/DSLR footage

Loz Blain September 9, 2018

Smartphones are literally all you need to make solid web video these days, it's just so valuable to have a HD camera with you at all times. And you can take it up a level with the Muwi, a cheap, pocket-sized, modular phone/camera slider capable of shooting powered motion timelapse shots.

Computers

Ray tracing the focus of Nvidia's new Turing platform and GPUs

Michael Irving August 14, 2018

Nvidia has unveiled its latest GPU architecture, as well as three new chips based on it. Named Turing, the eighth-gen platform is designed with a focus on ray tracing, and the three new GPUs – the Quadro RTX 8000, 6000 and 5000 – are made for professional use in video and simulation.

Nvidia has unveiled its newest graphics architecture, named Turing, which focuses on ray tracing to render ...

Marine

US$30,000 Boxfish ROV represents the state of the art in underwater camera drones

Loz Blain July 24, 2018

Test-driving the Gladius underwater camera drone was awesome, and it made us wonder: what's the state of the art in these devices? That would appear to be the US$30,000 Boxfish ROV, a 55-lb pro video monster with eight vectored thrusters, 20,000 lumens of lighting, and a max dive depth of 3,280 ft.

The Boxfish ROV boasts a 1,000-meter max depth, which requires twin ultra-bright 10,000 lumen LED lighting

Digital Cameras

Arculus Onyx makes gimbals less gawky

Ben Coxworth May 18, 2018

If you shoot a lot of handheld video of extreme outdoor activities, then it's possible that you use a motorized camera-stabilizing gimbal. Such devices, however, typically don't offer much protection to the camera – or to themselves. That's why the enclosed-design Arculus Onyx was created.

The Arculus Onyx is a 3-axis camera-stabilizing gimbal, but with a bit of a difference

Telecommunications

Cutbox puts vloggers in control of a multi-camera TV studio

Ben Coxworth May 3, 2018

While it is possible for video bloggers to do multi-camera productions, they pretty much have to record everything with every camera, then go back and edit between them. The Cutbox Studio system, however, allows users to cut live between three included cameras.

Drones

LA Drone Film Festival winners raise the bar for drone cinematography

Loz Blain February 6, 2018

The LA Drone Film Festival has concluded and the winners announced. And they're a pretty stunning collection of super-short films. Drones are still a relatively new addition to the world of filmmaking, and it's awesome to see the creative ways they're being used.

Screen grab from the winner of the best Dronie from this year's LA Drone Film Festival

Digital Cameras

Moza AirCross: A smaller, cheaper, lighter, smarter gimbal for mirrorless cameras

Loz Blain January 16, 2018

The Moza AirCross is Gudsen's latest hand-held steadicam gimbal – this time focused squarely on lightweight mirrorless cameras. Smaller and lighter than the Moza Air, it's also got a quick release plate, auto-tune setup and battery power for your camera to make life easier on set.

Moza Aircross: a new, smaller gimbal aimed solely at mirrorless camera users

Digital Cameras

Panasonic GH5S: Better low light, slower slow-mo, no in-body stabilization

Loz Blain January 8, 2018

The GH5S is even more video focused than the GH5. Vastly improved low-light performance (thanks to a new dual-native ISO sensor) and slower slow-mo are great, but it's pricier than the GH5, it doesn't address autofocus issues, and it loses stills resolution and in-body image stabilization.

Panasonic GH5S: tilts even harder toward video than the GH5

Digital Cameras

Pint-size cable camera system goes where drones can't

Ben Coxworth October 20, 2017

Drones may allow film makers to get great tracking shots, but there are many situations in which it's just too risky to fly them. It was with this in mind that Wiral LITE was created. It's a cable camera system designed to work with smartphones, actioncams and mirrorless cameras.

Wiral LITE brings cable camera tech to low-budget film-making

Electronics

Samson wireless mic caters to smartphone videographers

Ben Coxworth August 22, 2017

If you've ever used a wireless mic, then you'll know that it's much less of a hassle than using a hard-wired mic. If you're shooting with a smartphone, however, an adapter has to be installed between the receiver and the phone. Samson has addressed that issue, with its new Go Mic Mobile.

The Samson Go Mic Mobile is available now