VariZoom has announced the release of two new wide angle lens converters, the VZ-FX70, and the VZ-FX75. The adapters use a series of multi-coated lens elements to reduce chromatic aberration. From a VariZoom Press Release: VariZoom is proud to announce the release of the FX Series of Lens converters. The VZ-FX70 and VZ-FX75 lenses are made with [...]

From the standards body that brought you such hits as NTSC, ATSC, and drop frame time code… The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) has announced that they’re starting work on a series of video standards for viewing 3D content in the home. There will be a few high profile 3D films coming out [...]

One of the most anticipated camcorders announced at NAB 2008, was RED’s Scarlet. A 3K camera with a 2/3″ CMOS sensor, coming in at under $3,000. Rumors and discussions about Scarlet have been rampant since its debut was scheduled for “early 2009″. Yesterday Jim Janard, released this mockup of the Scarlet Camcorder in its current stage [...]

(CHICO, Calif. July 10, 2008) Video enthusiasts will refine their video production skills by attending a weekend of classes at the 2008 Videomaker Conference. The event will be held in Denver, CO from August 2nd - August 3rd, 2008. For the weekend, videographers and video enthusiasts can choose from a Video Production Workshop, Presentations on Specialty [...]

The Center for Social Media, has published a set of guidelines relating to fair-use practices and online video. Is your mash-up, re-edit, or montage of 80’s TV shows legal? What rights do you have in using copyrighted material in your own works? Is some giant media conglomerate going to come after me? The lawyers and scholars at [...]

Reprinted from a Video Technical Services, Inc. press release: Video Technical Services, Inc. is proud to make a New Product announcement from CHINA CITYTEK, the 2110G Dual Voltage Lithium-Ion Battery Kit. The Kit is made up of a 75Watt-Hour, Lithium-Ion Battery Package that contains 2 power outlets; one that supplies 8.4 volts for most all DV-Pro Camcorders [...]

Focus Enhancements today announced their new DTE recorder, the FS-5. Essentially it’s a 100 gigabyte portable harddrive recorder that connects to your DV or HDV camcorder via Firewire. When you press the record button on your camcorder, the video goes to tape, but it’s also captured to the hard drive as well. This allows you [...]

HP announced today its xw4550 workstation. It sports a Quad Core AMD processor and an ATI Radeon X1250 integrated graphics card, as well as a 4GB memory capacity. The line has plenty of configurable options so you can customize just the workstation you need. The price point is certainly attractive, starting at $600, you can get [...]

In August, Sony will debut the HDR-CX12 camcorder. It’s a Handycam format camcorder, that records to Sony’s memory stick technology in 1920×1080 HD video, and also takes a pretty astounding 10 megapixel still photo.   It features a new technology called “Smile Shutter” that can analyze when a person in the frame smiles, and snaps a photo [...]

(edited to add specs on camcorders, and new pricing information from Panasonic) Panasonic sent around a press release today announcing two new HD camcorders, the HDC-SD100, and the HDC-HS100. Recording AVCHD to memory card, (and to hard drive in the SD100 model) they use 3MOS sensors. What’s the difference between MOS and CMOS you might be [...]