A blog about video gear and video accessories
Rode Microphones are not ones to rest on their extensive laurels and have just announced another addition to their range of “NTG” shotgun microphones. The NTG5 is said – by them! – to be “a revolution” in shotgun microphone design, featuring a new “acoustic port...
Sony has unveiled updates to its long-standing and very popular Alpha x000 line (such as the 5000 and 6400) Vloggers will adore the – sadly much more expensive – new Alpha 6600 as it now incorporates both a microphone jack and a headphone jack. Such...
The “Rodecaster Pro” all-in-one audio mixer for podcast production has a new software version now available following user feedback and requests. Firmware v2.0 offers the ability to save a snapshot of all settings to a companion app, so that getting ready for different podcasts can...
Rode has released a lavalier microphone specifically designed to work with its tiny wireless mic transmitter the “Wireless Go” The new lav is an omnidirectional condenser with a frequency range quoted as 20Hz-20kHz and signal to noise ratio of 67dB. It can handle up to...
Magix software, the company that now owns the “Vegas” line of video and audio editing software once touted by Sony (and before that, Sonic Foundry, remember that?), has given a preview of its eagerly-awaited forthcoming version 17 of the software. Presented to the Los Angeles...
Sony has unveiled the seventh version of its wildly popular RX100 pocket camera and hot on the heels of Canon’s G7X Mk III, it too now features a microphone socket for vloggers. That said the press release adds the unhelpfully unqualified caveat that “Attaching a...
Rode has announced a new version of its popular “Videomic Me” mini shotgun microphone, specifically for iphones which no longer have an audio jack. Instead, the Videomic Me-L has a Lightning connector so it can plug directly into the phone – and draw power from...
Version six of the popular RX100 pocket (ish) camera has been announced by Sony with yet more whizz-bang features – and a price tag to match. Let’s get that out of the way first – the RX100 MkVI is going to retail at around 1,300...
This is a review of the Tascam DR-10C. It’s not a new product but having only recently purchased it, I’ve been so impressed that I thought a video and writeup was in order. It’s a tiny, lightweight (51g) audio recorder, designed to complement a radio...
Bam! In your face, Canon! Mere hours after the XF400/405 was launched (see our news item here), Sony have hit back with not one, not two but THREE of their own. But if you look at the specs, it could be that Canon’s got the...
It’s been so long since Canon updated its compact camcorder lineup that someone in the marketing department would appear to have forgotten their own naming convention. The new XF400 and XF405 are, quite clearly, nothing more than the newer sibling of the XA lineup, the...
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