Stay away from counterfeit products: Straight talk with Vincent Laforet in this episode of ON THE GO.  Vincent Laforet and Nino Leitner “On the Go” for cinema5D. “Innovation is being destroyed” In this year’s first episode of our car talk show ON THE GO, I talked to commercial director / photographer and DSLR pioneer Vincent Laforet about the state of the industry. Vincent identified a dire state in gear manufacturing, with more and more innovative products being ripped off by (mainly) Asian counterfeit products. To make matters worse, some of those clone companies aren’t small operations, they are becoming huge international players. What’s left for the innovators is to go to court, which isn’t easy – not even having expensive patents necessarily protects you from counterfeiters, if you don’t have the financial resources to fight against them in international courts. And even if you do, particularly Chinese companies are still often hard to grasp legally from Western countries. We talked in particular about a high-profile clone of the MoVi Pro which has been announced just before NAB, which upset Vincent in particular as he was the person who launched the MoVi M10 together with his friends from Freefly a couple of years ago. Check back next week for another episode with Vincent Laforet, in which he will talk about how it is to shoot commercials for Apple, where his career is moving and where he expects things will go in the coming years for him and the industry. Do you care if you have “the original” of a product if it works better or is price all that matters to you? Let us know in the comments below! Please visit our sponsors’ websites to keep new episodes of ON THE GO coming! Watch previous episodes of ON THE GO (& On the Couch) by clicking here. Visit our Vimeo and YouTube playlists, and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes!

Watch previous episodes of ON THE COUCH & ON THE GO by clicking here! Visit our Vimeo and YouTube playlists, and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! Please visit our sponsors’ websites to keep new episodes of ON THE GO coming! Thanks to Hedge for Mac,  G-Technology, Røde Microphones, Sachtler, in association with Ford Netherland (thanks for the Ford Galaxy car loan!) and Sony Europe (thanks for the 4K Action cam loan!) The cinema5D talkshow is back! And this time… On wheels and on the road. Say hello to cinema5D ON THE GO! With two major industry trade shows behind us, the last few weeks have brought with them what seemed like an avalanche of new product releases. A particular highlight of IBC 2016 was the many new lenses that were announced, in particular in terms of zoom lens aimed at cinematographers. In our maiden voyage of cinema5D ON THE GO, Nino Leitner, Johnnie Behiri, Adam Plowden and Olaf von Voss from the cinema5D editorial team take a ride to discuss the differences and similarities between these new lens announcements. The new Canon C700 is also a hot topic of conversation, and we discuss what camera manufacturers to look out for in the coming months. Please visit our sponsors’ websites to keep new episodes of ON THE GO coming! Thanks to Hedge for Mac,  G-Technology, Røde Microphones, Sachtler and in association with Ford and Sony.