Saturday, April 26, 2008

Randomness at NAB

I found myself drooling over this new made-for-the-RED zoom lens from legendary glass crafters Angenieux:




it ships in September for under $20K

The award for Best Swag has to go the Quantum for balsa wood airplanes, complete with wind-up propellers!


Quantum's Pro Video 'A' series drives have justifiably met a common workflow need for facilities who have transitioned to tapeless acquisition. The LTO-3A sits on your network, is accessed like an FTP site and can R/W to inexpensive 400GB tapes at about 65MB/s. Its definitely the next step up in archiving once you get sick of buying off-the-shelf-Firewire-drives.

and last but not least: If you must stay at a cheap hotel in Vegas, you might as well stay at the Imperial Palace (or as the insiders call it: the "IP")
They have some pretty strict rules concerning what you can and can't do on their balconies:

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