NAB 2018 wrap up

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NAB 2018 is finally over. After 4 days scouring the show floor like pirates looking for hidden treasure, the Newsshooter team can finally get some much needed sleep.

NAB 2018 saw a plethora of new products being announced (too many items for us to possibly cover). On the final day of the show we sat down with Jeff Lee and Jem Schofield to discuss the latest trends and products we saw on the show floor.

The Newsshooter team at NAB 2018

This years show had a little bit of everything, but the trends seem to be RGB lighting, large format cameras, lenses, and of course ProRes RAW.

Erik, Matt, Jeff and Jem talk candidly about this years trends, what they saw, and what products caught their eye. Grab a cup of coffee (or tea if that’s your thing) and sit down on your comfy couch as we run you through NAB 2018.

Thanks to our sponsors AbelCine, Teradek, Aputure, Blackmagic Design, Rode, and Tokina Vista for making our coverage possible. Without these sponsors we can’t provide this coverage for you. An additional thanks to Sachtler, Think Tank Photo and IDX for additional gear.

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  • TomV

    Star of the show for me were twofold – ProRes RAW – not so much because of the technology, but the possibilities of a direct workflow and not having to work with proxies (or at least abstracting the mechanics of it for FCX users) and making RAW workflows something to consider to more types of projects. Secondly, Z-Cam E2 – most manufacturers bring forth a powerful marketing profile of a product and tell you how the product will work, where Z-cam seems to be very receptive to listening to potential users and promising to looking into what people want – no marketing involved, just pure engineering. Now it could be a giant failure, like the mediocre half baked software for the E1 and underperforming aspirations, but if one learns from mistakes, Z-cam may have learned a lot. Some things Z-cam has mentioned looking into, higher frame rates when sacrificing raster, more sensor scanning options / resolutions / aspect ratios, including anamorphic support, timecode, RAW, changing mechanics / ergonomics…

  • ValyrianSteel

    The Blackmagic Pocket 4k camera is the standout product of NAB 2018.

    • http://www.visionrouge.net/web/ Freelance cameraman China/HK

      Unfortunately, it was almost the only real new one.
      Sony, Canon, Panasonic,.. not so much

  • Jan Becker

    What’s the name of that small RGB light? lux something? Thanks

    • Matthew Allard ACS

      luxli

  • Roman Lehmann

    It was a pleasure to follow Newsshooter from NAB. Many thanks.

  • Tristan Pemberton

    Great coverage – thanks team NewsShooter!

  • http://www.leemjdaley.com Lee MJ Daley

    For me the the system from the lightbridge is the most interesting along with the Tilta Nucleus N. I’ve seen the thelightbridge system a few years ago could be the same thing or something similar

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