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OWC has announced the Envoy Pro Elektron, the fastest, toughest mini-sized SSD to be found. Pocket-sized tiny, this USB-C bus-powered drive is crushproof, dustproof, and waterproof for editing/saving personal and work files anywhere at up to 1011MB/s real-world speed. For example, it is capable of transferring a 5GB ... [ Read: OWC Announces Envoy Pro Elektron, a Rugged, High-Speed, Ultra-Compact USB-C SSD ]

After only six months in operation and having raised nearly $2 billion in funding, Quibi is shutting down, this according to founders Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman.  They wrote in a public letter that "It is with an incredibly heavy heart that today we are announcing that we are winding down the business and ... [ Read: A Short Life For the Purveyor of Short Films - Quibi to Shut Down ]

The LitraStudio has been honored with two awards in separate categories from the National Association of Broadcasters, Product of the year in both Studio Lighting and Location Lighting. The NAB Awards recognizes innovation in new products, across 23 categories, at the 2020 NAB Show, honoring breakthroughs within the ... [ Read: Litra Receives Two NAB Product of the Year Awards ]

CODEX, part of the X2X Media Group, has been honoured with a 2020 Engineering Emmy® Award, recognising the engineering behind the CODEX RAW Workflow with High Density Encoding (HDE).  The CODEX RAW Workflow provides an efficient and cost-effective solution for television production using high-end camera capture ... [ Read: CODEX wins Technical Engineering Emmy for CODEX RAW High Density Workflows ]

Excuse Me, I Think Your Camera is Ringing — iPhones for Movie Making Part II by James Mathers Cinematographer and Founder of the Digital Cinema Society (Excerpted from the October 2020 Digital Cinema Society eNewsletter) The iPhone is so prevalent, especially in the entertainment industry, that it seems ... [ Read: Excuse Me, I Think Your Camera is Ringing -- iPhones for Movie Making Part II ]

In a surprising corporate reshuffling, Kees van Oostrum, the past president of the American Society of Cinematographers, (2016-2020,)  and current president of IMAGO, has been tapped to lead venerable lens manufacturer Cooke Optics. Current Chairman Les Zellan, who has been with the company since 1998, will be stepping ... [ Read: Kees van Oostrum, ASC to take the Reins at Cooke as Chairman Les Zellan Steps Down ]

The Panasonic LUMIX division has announced their first box-style Mirrorless Camera, the LUMIX DC-BGH1. Based on the Micro Four Thirds System standard, the BGH1 takes advantage of high mobility, interchangeable lenses, and technologies Panasonic has developed for their professional cinema cameras, camcorders and the ... [ Read: New LUMIX BGH1 Mirrorless Box Camera Featuring 4K 60p and 10-bit Recording ]

ARRI has announced mass production and first shipments of Orbiter, their new LED point source with a variety of optics.  Orbiter is manufactured at the ARRI Lighting factory in Stephanskirchen, Germany. This facility is located among a close network of partner companies from the region with the necessary experience ... [ Read: Orbiter, ARRI's new LED point source with a variety of optics Now Shipping ]