NAB Exhibits Day 1

Wow. The best word to describe yesterday’s opening of the exhibit hall at the 2010 NAB covention. Products from manufacturers all over the world were on full display and man did they come out swinging. One of the obvious connections with at least the camera makers were the 3D solutions. Everybody was touting their new 3D Cameras. In this photo you can see one of the formats that’s gaining popularity.

3D Solutions offers this rig that inverts one of the cameras looking straight down a glass plane that reflects the lens and inverts it the right way. In other words it creates the conversion of the 2 lenses but allows them to be closer together than they would be side by side for better paralax. Whew! What a mouth full. Panasonic offered to me the easiest solution with a mounted camera lens with dual lenses. Getting my hands on it proved to be similar in controlling our HVX 200.

    Another interesting setup for the cameras was the sets that each manufacturer used to show off the image quality. Seen here is the Panasonic’s 3D camera set up.

I was able to attend some incredibly helpful Final Cut Pro sessions. I use this software every day but was blown away with tips and tricks they taught us. Needless to say, I’ve been burning up the notes. I’m heading off now to a similar session on Color Correction so I’ve got to sign off. Things are definately going 3D around here and I can’t wait for Ole Miss to be apart of it.

Matthew