CVP Insights
The EOS C100 is Canon’s latest addition to their digital cinema camera line-up, sporting an EF lens mount and Full HD recording at up to 24Mb/s onto low cost SDHC media with an AVCHD MPEG-4 4:2:0 codec. The C100 is aimed at budget conscious independent videographers such as corporate video makers, wedding and event video producers, […]
This new Sony camcorder is aimed directly at the DSLR-Video market which has been dominated by the Canon EOS 5D Mark II and Mark III for the last few years. It’s clear that Sony have been working hard to conjure up a package that will enable them to regain lost ground, as the NEX-EA50H features all […]
This morning Craig from Blackmagic popped in to the CVP Midlands showroom in order to let us have a quick ‘play’ with a prototype of their Cinema Camera Since it’s one of the most eagerly awaited products of recent years I thought I’d better share my observations with you! The first thing that everyone at […]
If you’ve spent time shooting in a ‘one man band’ mode with full size 2/3″ ENG cameras equipped with servo-zoom lenses, then switching to servo-less cine-style zoom lenses can be frustrating because in handheld mode it’s virtually impossible to simultaneously and smoothly adjust zoom and focus. In recognition of the fact that large sensor cameras […]
When it comes to lighting technology the future is undoubtedly LED and at NAB 2012 there was a vast array of LED lighting fixtures on show. CVP have always been big fans of Zylight’s innovative and versatile Z90 and is3 colour tunable LED lights. We recently agreed to distribute their products in the UK, yet […]
As professional camcorder sales become more and more dominated by large sensor cameras designed to emulate the aesthetically pleasing shallow DoF (depth of field) normally associated with 35mm film, we’ve learned that Sony have recently licensed and implemented a revolutionary new technology called VariDoF. The acronym stands for Variable Depth of Field and through the […]
We can report that further to the theft by deception of a substantial amount of hire equipment from a prominent West London hire company (and CVP client) earlier this month by someone claiming to represent BBC Worldwide and producing forged BBC purchase orders, 4 men attempting to commit an almost identical crime against CVP have […]
We’re disappointed to report that on Friday 17th February 2012 CVP became the victim of one of the industry’s largest thefts when a substantial quantity of cameras, camcorders, lenses and ancillaries with a street value of around £1M was stolen from our warehouse. STOLEN PRODUCT LINES INCLUDE : Sony CBK-VF01 (10) Sony DTF2GY-8240UWD (1) Sony […]