The project "LiveCap: Real-time Human Performance Capture from Monocular Video" realizes the first real-time animation of a moving human being including clothing by means of motion capturing on the basis of completely normal video recordings, e.g. ...more

Lenovo has introduced a number of new ThinkPad P-series mobile workstations with the latest hardware and also updated the ThinkPad P1 model. New is the ThinkPad P53, which Lenovo calls the most powerful 15" workstation, as well as the P73, P53s and ...more

Once again at Siggraph 2019 a large number of extremely interesting projects were presented - many of them offering practical new solutions in the field of digital video editing as well as animation/simulation, such as the virtual re-illumination of ...more

An analysis of the viewer numbers of all videos on YouTube provides some interesting insights. Since YouTube itself does not publish detailed statistics on video views, the analysis company Pex has determined relevant figures through extensive ...more

IKAN has introduced its new Stratus Cage for the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K, which seems to have all (for us) central functions. These include: Metabones support, a holder for an external SSD (Samsung) as well as an HDMI and USB-C cable ...more

Sony continues to expand its lens portfolio with a 600mm f4 fixed focal length that should be of particular interest to sports, press and animal photographers / film makers. At 3,040 grams, it is said to be the lightest 600mm lens in its class, for ...more

From Edelkrone come again and again quite smart ideas -- today the accessory manufacturer announces to offer also versions for the domestic 3D printer with some products. The customer then becomes a co-producer (in Turkish ortak means just partner ...more

For those for whom the Nikon Z6 and Nikon Z7 are already too compact to work ergonomically with the cameras, there are different strategies to improve the ergonomics: 1. an additional battery pack (Nikon MB-N10 Multi-Power Battery Pack is still in ...more

Tamron presents a new autofocus lens for SLR cameras with full-format sensor. The fixed focal length SP 35mm F/1.4 Di USD marks the 40th anniversary of the SP series and is expected to feature high resolution even with maximum open aperture F/1.4. ...more

Photoshop is simply "standard" and indispensable for many users. Even though there are now many alternatives for all possible applications, it is probably the proven Photoshop operating concept that holds most users to the bar. Programs like ...more

Working with 4K/6K/RAW video naturally requires large hard disks due to the large amount of data - so new disks with peak storage capacities are always good news. Seagate has now announced the first 16TB hard drives for its Exos and Ironwolf series, ...more

We had leaned out of the window with a speculation by Techradar about an 8K ProRes RAW recording by Nikon and tried to find out more about it afterwards. But shortly afterwards EOSHD confirmed wants to have confirmed: The documentary about the ...more

At the Apple event for the presentation of the new Mac Pro, as reported, there was also a lot about very high-resolution video -- ProRes RAW in 8K is said to have been shown there in multiple versions for demo purposes (more about this at another ...more

Panasonic is offering its compact Super 35mm camera VariCam LT as part of a promotional campaign until September 30, 2019 at a greatly reduced price. The camera body (AU-V35LT1G) will get a discount of 5.500 Euro on the retail price as well as a ...more