Sony dropped the F bomb: announces F5, F55 4K cameras

This is a guest post by Nino Leitner. Read on for a full in depth look at Sony’s new cinema line of cameras.

Introduction

After teasing us for ages, Sony today announced what has already been all over town:

The Sony F5 & F55 cameras were just announced, alongside an entire range of workflow infrastructure that goes along with. It is one of the most massive announcements of new cameras to date, with Sony showing of a lot of “F” squarely aimed at challenging Red with their Epic, Canon with their C300/C500 and even Arri with their Alexa. Sony is truly flexing their muscles and showing off what they do best, providing entire production pipelines to go along with their cameras.

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IBC 2012 – Canon’s Peter Yabsley about the EOS C100 idea

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In this last video from IBC 2012 we’re posting Clayton Burkhart has a conversation with Peter Yabsley from Canon about the new Canon EOS C100.

The Canon EOS C100 was definitely one of the most interesting cameras of IBC 2012. Peter Yabsley gave us the details in this interview and elaborates why there is such a big price difference between the C line cameras and how the different models are really for different target groups.

Let’s see if what Sony comes out with tomorrow will be able to compete with Canon’s C line of cameras.

This is the last chance to participate in our IBC 2012 twitter contest as we’ll pick the winner tomorrow.

The Canon EOS C100 is expected on November 30th and will cost $6499.
You can pre-order it here:

Sony NEX-EA50 hands-on footage and review

The Sony EA50 was announced two months ago (LINK) and impressed us with its very interesting and ergonomic looking design, the zoom rocker functionality and a good price-point.

What we didn’t know was how it performed before we got a chance to see it and play with it (LINK)

Now Johnnie Behiri got a chance to test the Sony NEX-EA50 large sensor camera and shared these nice clips and some insightful thoughts with us.

In Johnnie Behiri’s own words:

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IBC 2012 – Sachtler ACE version 2: ACE L

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The famous most affordable Sachtler tripod gets a bigger brother.

What is this, a second Sachtler Ace?
Indeed, this is an upgrade version for those who like the affordability of the first Sachtler Ace, but require some more features.

Basically the advantages of the Ace L over the normal Ace (Ace M) are the following:

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