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Today Canon announced the release of two new cinema lenses that are properly for 4K production standards.

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“Both the Canon FK14.5-60 wide-angle cine zoom lens and the FK30-300 telephoto cine zoom lens are engineered to meet the most demanding overall imaging requirements of the latest large-format single-sensor digital cinematography cameras, and the creative requirements of the most discerning cinematographers, producers, and directors. Canon’s new wide-angle FK14.5-60 and telephoto FK30-300 PL-mount lenses will be on display at the 2011 NAB Show along with many other Canon HD lenses and advanced imaging products in booth # C-4325 in the Central Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center, April 11-14.

“The 2K and HD digital production formats are firmly established in the global marketplace today, while 4K resolution is poised to further propel the imaging quality of digital cine production. Anticipating this exciting evolution in digital acquisition guided Canon’s developments of a new optical platform in recent years to meet the current and future imaging needs of high-resolution camera sensors,” explained Larry Thorpe, national marketing executive, Broadcast and Communications division, Canon U.S.A. “Canon has extrapolated a new optical platform – first seen during NAB 2009 on a working prototype 8K lens – to bring to market these two new PL-mount lenses. Advanced glass materials, exotic new optical coatings, and new computer-design techniques were all employed to achieve significant overall optical performance in these two lenses.”

Read more at canon.com.

The Ikonoskop team is waiting for you at NAB 2011, booth C9545 in hall C. They show the new A-Cam dll camera with different lens mounts, the memorycard, new footage, different workflows. In collaboration with P+S TECHNIK we will display the 3D Freestyle Rig equipped with two A-cam dII.

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Zeiss just announced a set of 5 cinema lenses. They come in a custom made case.

These lenses are included:

  • Distagon T* 2,8/21
  • Distagon T* 2/28
  • Distagon T* 2/35
  • Planar T* 1,4/50
  • Planar T* 1,4/85

With these Zeiss reacts to the growing demand of affordable lenses with a precise manual focus.

The recommended retail price is 4562,- € exclusive of taxes.

NAB 2011: Zeiss cinema lens set in a custom made case

The boldest piece of Sony’s sensor narrative is about size. On the heels of the Super35mm-sized single CMOS sensor the compnay developed for the F3, Sony has announced another CMOS single-sensor milestone: Its newest CineAlta camera featuring an 8K x 2K chip. That gives the new 8K CMOS inside a total pixel count of 20.4 million pixels, far more than the roughly 8.8 million pixels of the current 4K x 2K sensors in other existing cameras on the market. The new sensor size obviously also brings with it higher color reproduction and resolution than can be captured by those other 4K sensors. But don’t confuse sensor size, pixel density and resolution with the recording format. The images are still recorded and output in 16-bit RAW 4K (16:8:8). During our demo at Sony’s Atsugi Technology Center in a suburb of Tokyo, however, those images were noticeably crisper, brighter and cleaner as a result of the extra pixels. Blacks were deep and rich, too. No shades of gray here, though if you were shooting a mountain climber against a textured, marbled slab of granite, this imager would certainly pick up every bit of uncompressed detail. I’m told the camera will shoot from 1 through 72 fps. Crank that up to a High Frame Rate mode and you can go all the way up to 120 fps.

Read more at studiodaily.com.

Trailer for NAB 2011 by Sebastian Wöber.

Jim Jannard of RED annnounces something big for NAB 2011. View full article »