http://www.mediaproductionshow.com/

Initially I'd got the impression that I'd find many stands for props, locations and specialist studios. In the event there was one stand for prop rental, one for derelict locations and 5 or so stands for very big (out of my league!) studios. So all in all I didn't find what I was expecting. From a PV perspective I guess many of us are in the independent boat where affordable locations and props can make a real contribution to our work.

However this show is smaller and more quiet than the BVE show which is held at Excel. The MPS show was held at the West Hall Olympia. All the main players were there, Holdan, BlackMagic, Cooke, Canon etc. I found it much easier to get onto the stands to look and try kit.

Around the periphery of the show there were many seminars, I stopped by to listen to a colour grading session about the new Resolve. It was presented by a jobbing colourist and in my view was both well presented and really useful - I now know a bit more about the face tracking features of Resolve.

At the moment I'm in the market for some thunderbolt 3 storage, because the big players were there I stopped by to check out their offerings. In both cases the systems on show had dreadful read speeds (sub 500MB/s). What was slightly more worrying is that the people on the stand didn't understand the performance and were of the view that it was a 'prototype firmware issue'.

I was quite taken by one stand that had built a sound isolated studio in an ISO container (the type seen on ships and lorries).

Would I go again? Well, if I happened to be in London perhaps, one of the main impressions I got from the show is that the vendors already knew who they expected to be there, and knew their key visitors by name.

State

• Covered by our long time members

See more at http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/15741/photokina-2016-support-our-team

Interesting new cameras at Photokina

• Canon: Canon M5 camera
• Olympus: Olympus M1 II with 4K video (prototypes), cheap E-PL8 camera
• Panasonic: LX15, FZ2000, G80 and GH5 (GH5 under the glass, as prototype)
• Sony: A99 II
• Nikon: Action camera only.
• Fuji: Medium format camera prototype.
• Yi or Xiaoyi : New M1 m43 camera, Hall 09.1, Booth A-032

Interesting new lenses at Photokina

• Olympus : 30mm f/3.5 macro, 25mm f/1.2 and 12-100mm f/4.0 PRO lenses
• Panasonic: 8-18mm f/2.8-4.0, 12-60mm f/2.8-4.0, 50-200mm f/2.8-4.0 lenses
• Canon: 18-150 F3.5-6.3 IS STM and 70-300 F4-5.6 IS II USM lenses
• Zeiss: Zeiss Loxia 85mm
• Tokina: Cinema lenses lineup
• Sigma: Cinema lenses lineup, 85mm Art, 12-24mm Art, 500mm f/4 DG OS HSM lens
• Samyang: Cinema lenses lineup, 16mm Xeen
• Laowa/Venus 12mm and 15mm lenses

Interesting new gear at Photokina

• DJI - Karma drone

• None for now.

NAMM 2013
January 24-27 Anahaim California USA,
http://www.namm.org/thenammshow/2013

Let me know if you want to help us with coverage. Or just will be at the show. Send me PM.

Please leave a note below if you plan to go to NAB this year, especially leave time frame, and place where you like to meet other members.
Also leave any wishes/questions.

For Black Magic new cameras talk go to http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/6630/new-black-magic-raw-cameras-pocket-for-995-and-s35-4k-for-3995

While it don't have much cameras present :-) It is very useful for any serious filmmaker.

We mostly ignored IBC, focusing on Photokina.

But we need dedicated topic anyway.

We started collecting donations for NAB coverage.
All money will go directly to the guys who'll be making it for us.
Remember to leave "NAB" in the donation notes (button is above :-) ).

First. Cheaper version of Jupiter-80, Jupiter-50. Can be very useful as ligh, good sounding synth.

http://www.roland.com/products/en/JUPITER-50/

Second. Bigger Korg MicroKey. Like their small footpring and good fast keys.

http://www.korg.com/microkey

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