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You don’t expect the penultimate session of the Media Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival to be the most important and far reaching of the whole event. By the final morning, many delegates are partied out, hungover and either fast asleep, or on their way home. However, at this year’s penultimate panel, ‘Meet the Controllers: Multi Channel, Entertainment’, MTV dropped a bombshell. Continue reading “The Day The Music Television Died – MGEITF 2012”
I’m special guest DJ at 80s Synthpop, Goth, Industrial & New Wave night, Living On Video, on Friday 31 August.
I’ll be playing two sets, as apparently they just can’t get enough of me. Be there by 9pm to catch the first. Continue reading “Living on Video”
When the Sony EX1 was released, five years ago, it was an incredibly important camera, for a number of reasons. First and foremost, it was the only handheld full HD camera on the block. Secondly, it had three half inch sensors, making it great in low light. Thirdly, it had a real lens which allowed focus, aperture and zoom to be set manually. Last, but not least, it was the first Sony’s handheld camera to record to solid state cards. All of this should have made it the ideal ‘small’ camera for long form documentaries. However, it had one fatal flaw, namely it could only record internally at 35Mb/s 4:2:0, meaning it was not ‘broadcast quality’ (as defined by the EBU or BBC). Continue reading “Sony PMW-200”
Last year I posted about the KineRAW S35, a Chinese Alexa that Guardian photographer and DSLR News Shooter, Dan Chung, had discovered at the BIRTV trade show in Beijing.
At the time it was, essentially, vapourware, but now it seems that the launch of this camera is just weeks away…and at a projected price of approximately $6000 for a 2K (down sampled from 4K), 12 bit raw, S35mm camera, than can take PL, Canon & Nikon lenses, could turn out to be a very significant development.
Dan Chung has posted a 20 minute interview with JH from the camera’s developer, Kinefinity, and is currently testing the camera. If it fulfils its promise, then the combination of the KineRAW S35, Blackmagic Design’s new $3000, 2.5K raw shooting M43 Digital Cinema Camera and the crowd funded S16 Raw shooting Digital Bolex, might just be the catalyst for Sony, Canon & RED, to produce competitively priced raw cinema cameras…and if it is not, apparently Kinefinity has 4K raw, S16 raw & S8 raw cameras in development…
Recently, I was invited to the Great British Tattoo Show 2012. Here are some highlights featuring the burlesque talents of Millie Dollar (who you may remember from The Toadlickers) & Beatrix Von Bourbon, compere Paul Sweeney, some top breakdancers, Cyanide Girls, Engineers of Desire, the eye popping Tattoo Awards…and assorted punters with tattoo needles stuck in various bodily parts.
If you like what you see, you might like to check out organiser, Skin Deep‘s, forthcoming events, Tattoo Jam, Manchester International Tattoo Show & Tattoo Freeze.
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