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Monday, September 08, 2014

Sony Announcement Tomorrow, AJA CION, Sandisk Sale

It's IBC week, so expect some equipment news this week.

Sony is going to announce a new camera tomorrow. Is it a FS700 replacement, enhancement, or something else? Initial rumors have been about a 4K FS700 II that will be priced about $10,000, but I was curious after seeing the teaser video that seemed to focus on web bloggers. A few very successful web bloggers might spend $10,000 on a camera, but I don't think the vast majority will. They are more likely to be thinking about a7S money. Maybe there's two cameras coming?



I was at the Mass Media Expo on Saturday and saw a presentation on the AJA CION, a $9.000 camera. The camera was supposed to ship this summer, and as they said, summer is over this month. They had no ship date, but the camera is being shown at IBC and it was suggested that there might be an announcement there.

The new Panasonic Varicam starts shipping this month, so there should be news about that too. Panasonic thinks it has a competitor to the ARRI ALEXA, so this isn't in the same price territory.


Lastly, I had a bit of a memory card disaster this weekend, which means I need to replace an old 16GB SD card. Fortunately, Amazon has a SanDisk sale today. 32GB SDHC Class 10 cards are now $14.99! while SanDisk Extreme PRO 240GB SATA 6.0Gb/s 2.5-Inch 7mm Height Solid State Drive (SSD) are $129.99.


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