“NAB has always been the broadcast show,” Paul Hawxhurst, senior technical specialist at Canon USA, told me at the show this year. “For a little while there, it was cinema, cinema, cinema. Right now, it’s going back to broadcast, broadcast, broadcast.” On the floor in Las Vegas, that shift is hard to miss. As I made the rounds on the final day of the show, I asked vendors how business had been, and nearly all described a quieter year. Some companies reduced their footprint or skipped booths altogether, opting instead for smaller presences as a sponsor within NAB’s Cine Central […]
by Caleb Hammond on May 7, 2026
Have you heard? The United Nations designated 2015 the “International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies,” and cinematography made the cut. But is IYL 2015 finally the year in which the dam burst of innovation subsides, and new digital cameras and techniques no longer threaten to drown us? Surveying the latest advances in large-sensor digital cinema cameras for Filmmaker’s fifth annual round-up — written, as always, on the eve of NAB — gives me pause to consider how far we’ve come in the five years since Sony’s F3 and FS100 were cutting-edge… since Panasonic’s AF100 stirred passions, ARRI’s Alexa represented a bold choice, and RED’s hand-assembled Epic-M […]
by David Leitner on Apr 28, 2015