Blackmagic Design has released two new cameras at the 2013 National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) show, offering both low and high-end alternatives to the favorite Digital Cinema Camera it launched at last year’s event. The Production Camera 4K may be the beefier of both devices and provides some powerful features including an EF appropriate lens support, a Brilliant 35 alarm, in addition to 4K support. The Pocket Cinema Camera packs the Full HD Super 16 alarm into its lean magnesium alloy human body, and provides some remarkable efficiency at a very competitive price level.
Blackmagic made somewhat of a at NAB 2012 when the Digital Cinema Camera was unmasked — a US$2,995 product that offered some features you’d expect you’ll find on some much pricier products. The new additions to the business’s range of theatre cameras look to keep on that value-for-money pattern, with the lower-end Pocket Cinema Camera arriving just $995.
The Pocket Cinema Camera, which is a less than an inch thick, comes with a Super 16 mm measured 1080HD warning, 13 stops of dynamic range and Micro Four Thirds (MFT) contact compatibility. It has a, 800 x 480 resolution LCD section close to a four-way selection controller, both an integral stereo microphone (although there is also a mm input jack) and an integral mono speaker, and characteristics micro HDMI and small USB ports. Such as the Cinema Camera, the Pocket doesn’t use custom video file types, but uses open standard file types suitable for common NLE software.
Whilst the Pocket allows for 1080p HD recording at around 30 fps, the more costly Production Camera 4K will take top quality compressed CinemaDNG RAW and ProRes 422 documents in 4K (3840 x 2160 pixel) quality. The device, which is available in at $3,995, is equipped by having an EF compatible contact support, an expert global shutter and a more substantial Super 35 mm sized sensor.
The system records 4K movie right to a 2.5-inch SSD, meaning that you could link it to your computer at the end of a capture and edit immediately from the drive. There is also an integrated Thunderbolt interface and UltraScope computer software, enabling real-time waveform monitoring, two analog audio inputs, and SDI video and audio out. Much like the Digital Cinema Camera, a 5-inch 800 x 480 resolution capacitive touchscreen is sported by the back of the device.
The Production Camera 4K is extremely well equipped for the price level. The Pocket Cinema Camera is just a more modest offering than its big brothers, but its sub-$1000 cost probably will make it an attractive offering to future movie makers.
Sony is apparently gearing as much as offer local DualShock 3 control support in future Xperia handsets, according to Xperia Weblog. The addition of functionality was found in a Xperia SP phone (that has yet to be officially released), and allows a user to link a PS3 control via USB cable, and then hand off the bond to Bluetooth.
When the two are linked, they’ll immediately rediscover one another when operated on with Bluetooth active, and then you’re able to make use of the PS3 control to play games from Google Play that are joypad-enabled, or to play games from PlayStation Mobile for Android. Sony’s own games marketplace provides brands that users will understand from past PlayStation console releases, so true local Sony gamepad service is a huge boon in terms of really to be able to enjoy those games without messing with touchscreen settings. In the demo movie, you can see that the DualShock 3 service performs quite well, which makes it possible to enjoy the activities as these were originally supposed to be played, with a controller laid out just as was intended. The DualShock control can even be used to understand within the PlayStation Mobile app, which means you will be able to use it easily when connected to a larger present like a for a correct lean-back gaming experience.
Sony’s efforts with PlayStation Mobile have gotten off to a start, thanks to a limited start collection and a comparatively small share of legally supported devices. But adding things such as DualShock 3 support go a considerable ways towards making it a sensible game system from which to offer PlayStation content beyond Sony’s own equipment environment. Mobile has yet to see the emergence of a Steam, for example, and if Sony begins to see its prospects fading in terms of units and specific gambling units, operating as a mobile platform manager could be a good way to hedge its bets against future trends.
Let us hope Sony sees the worth of running out formal DualShock 3 service beyond just the Xperia point. If this were an integral, Sony-blessed feature of the gambling marketplace I had be considered a lot more likely to make use of PlayStation Mobile on any product.
In the process of increasingly dire predictions about climate change and discussions over the future of fossil fuels, regional Kansas lawmakers have attempted to explicitly ban money the mere idea of sustainability. Bloomberg has unearthed a February statement from Kansas’ House Committee on Energy and Environment that could outlaw using public funds to advertise, support, or arrange for “sustainable development.” What do they mean by that? The bill says it is targeted at “a function of human development in which resource use aims to meet human needs while preserving the environment so that these needs could be met not only in today’s, also for decades to come.”
The bill is using a standard definition of sustainability — and one which is espoused by the UN, a goal of American ire. But its bluntness makes it clear that this is not nearly avoiding unintended effects from environmentalism: it is taking aim at the fundamental concept of preserving natural resources for future generations. The thing it doesn’t connect with is conservationism, or attempts to preserve specific sites from destruction; presumably, future Kansans may go through the nature-filled past in particular saves while surviving on resources excavated from asteroids.
“Sustainable growth and its connection with a variety of activities is something which must be scrutinized.”
The Committee on Energy and Environment is headed by Dennis Hedke, a consulting geophysicist who The Topeka Capital-Journal says has worked for a large number of gas companies and local oil. Hedke has said he brought the bill for many constituents, but he’s suggested in a interview with Bloomberg that it’s more a preventive measure than the usual real reaction to anything: “we do not have laws in Kansas today that relate solely to ecological development.” It is also designed to raise a discussion about the practices. “The idea of sustainable development and its connection with a variety of activities is something which has to be scrutinized in the public domain.”
State legislatures are no stranger to bizarre or excessive proposals, and Hedke’s bill had not been heard by the time Kansas’ most recent legislative session ended, though it may be revived later on. Therefore, it is unlikely citizens will dsicover a ban on sustainability anytime soon. But even while lots of politicians dispute the idea that human activity is creating climate change or that environmental preservation is a great thing, it is unusual to see such resistance spelled out so clearly.