NAB 2012 wrap-up.

• Black­magic announced a hard-to-believe cam­era fea­tur­ing a 2.5K image sen­sor, 13 stops of dynamic range, built-in SSD recorder, pop­u­lar open stan­dard uncom­pressed RAW and com­pressed file for­mats, com­pat­i­bil­ity with qual­ity EF and ZF mount lenses, and LCD touch­screen monitoring.

• Autodesk announced Smoke 2013 for the Mac, a new ver­sion of what the com­pany is now call­ing video edit­ing soft­ware and at users of Apple’s Final Cut Pro or Avid Media Com­poser who want high-end edit­ing and fin­ish­ing tools in one app. The new price is “only” $3495, down from $14,995 for the 2012 version.

• Adobe Pre­miere Pro CS6 is out with and enhanced 64-bit play­back engine that can han­dle5K res­o­lu­tions, and higher, new trim­ming options, com­pat­i­bil­ity with Mac touch­pad ges­tures, a Warp Sta­bi­lizer that was pre­vi­ously con­fined to After Effects, and expanded mul­ti­cam edit­ing for more than four cam­eras. Tak­ing a page from its sis­ter app, “the audio ori­ented Audi­tion, Pre­miere Pro CS6 offers a redesigned and more func­tional audio mixer. Adobe also intro­duced Speed­Grade, a film fin­ish­ing and color grad­ing app, and Pre­lude, for ingest­ing, log­ging, and transcoding.

• Pana­sonic announced a bit­ter­sweet firmware update for the AG-AF100 that pro­vides 1080 50p and 60p modes. That’s the sweet part. The bit­ter? They want users to pay $300 for the upgrade.

Pana­sonic AF0100

• Canon announced the 1D C ($15,000), which has the same chas­sis and still shoot­ing fea­tures of the EOS-1D X ($6,800), and cap­tures 4096 x 2160 8-bit 4:2:2 video to a CF card at 24 fps. Unlike the X, the C swaps a head­phone jack for the X’s PC sync.

• The higher-end Canon EOS C500 ($30,000) offers the same ISO range as the C300 (320–20,000) and requires a ded­i­cated exter­nal recorder, but cap­tures in two full-RAW fla­vors: 4096 x 2960 (for motion pic­ture), and 3840 x 2160 (for 4K TV). Both of these modes offer 10-bit 4:4:4 at 60 frames-per-second. There are two addi­tional RAW option, 4096 x 1080 or 3840 x 1080 res­o­lu­tions, which are also 10-bit 4:4:4, but at 120 fps. The cam­era also offers

com­pressed RAW at 2048 x 1080 and 1920 x 1080 with either 12-bit or 10-bit 4:4:4 60p. Unlike the C300, the C500 doesn’t not have focus assist, or built-in ND fil­ters, or XLR inputs. Feel­ing a bit con­fused? Me too.

• Never shy from the spot light, RED announced a Dragon sen­sor upgrade, which is set to bring 6K res­o­lu­tion to EPIC and Scar­let cam­eras later this year The upgrade will cost EPICown­ers $6,000.

RED Epic

• Canon showed a pro­to­type 30-inch 4K ref­er­ence dis­play, but no word on pric­ing or when it will be com­mer­cially available.

• Nikon announced a brand new D3200 with all the usual bells and whis­tles: 24.2-megapixelAPS-C size (DX-format) CMOS sen­sor, full 1080p HD video in 24p or 30p with full-time aut­o­fo­cus, all for $700. The pic­tures I’ve seen are all in a ter­ri­ble cherry red.

• Sony announced the Alpha A57 DSLR cam­era (US$745 body only) fea­tur­ing a 24.3MP CMOSimage sen­sor, 10fps, and a 3-inch 921,600-pixel Xtra Fine LCD screen and full HD 1080p video (AVCHD) at 60 fps or 24 fps, com­pet­ing directly against Nikon’s D5100 and Canon’s EOSRebel T3i.

Blackmagic Camera

Black­magic Design Cin­ema Camera

Source: eduardoangel.com