Apparently, Sony’s first professional drone revealed at CES 2021 early this year was just a teaser. The electronics giant has just made it official, along with a price tag of US$9,000 that firmly cement it as a professional rig. Then again, if you are filthy rich, 9K is probably small change and in this case, …
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Sony could be setting a new tradition for CES. Last year, the company shook up the event with a surprised unveiling of an electric vehicle, Sony VISION-S. At this year’s virtual CES, it has yet another surprise.
Forget about 4K camera cos’ Blackmagic has up its own game with the new Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K. The new 6K device one up its Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K in resolution and does so while retaining the physical size. Though we can’t say the same for the price. But more on that in …
Unless you are humanoid of the future, making action footage using just your two hands isn’t going to be as stable. If you are so incline in film with, say, a smartphone like iPhone or an Android phone or an action camera like the GoPro and the Osmo Action, you are going to need a …
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Anyone can do a Discovery Travel-style 360 degree selfie video, complete with bullet-time (think The Matrix movie) and/or freeze time effects if you have a crew or a selfie drone. But what if you are alone? Well, the good news is, you can too – thanks to this rather ingenious creation by Ukrainian filmmaker, traveler …
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The maker of the sci-fi-ish imaging drone, Hover, is back with smarter imaging drone simply called Hover 2. Like its predecessor, Hover is feature a unique cage rotors, but with the boon of un-caging to go into “BlastOff” mode that affords you to capture breathtaking aerial footage up to 5 kilometers (3 miles) and up …
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What you see here is a video demonstration of Super SloMo: High Quality Estimation of Multiple Intermediate Frames for Video Interpolation. In layman terms, it means squeezing high-quality slow-motion videos from 30-frame-per-second videos – something which is not possible until today. If you have watched enough documentaries where often there are videos slowed down from …
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Here’s a one-and-half minute video showing what a nano drone can do besides racing through tight spaces. What you are about to witness is a single, continuous take captured by a miniature, specialized camera like the RunCam Split Mini outfitted on a nano quadcopter. The video, which features Japanese JK group Onnanocos, was recorded in …
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Remember the helicopter that appeared to be floating into the sky when the frame rate of the camera syncs with the rotor’s revolution per minute? Impressive and weird, right? Well, as it turns out that’s not the only one that demonstrate this weirdly beautiful phenomena. Here’s another one, but this time, it didn’t involved a …
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When a helicopter in motion is captured on video, what we saw is a phenomenon known as aliasing whereby we a general blur along with occasional pronounced blades that appeared to be rotating in alternating directions. However, if you managed to capture the footage at a frame rate exactly the same revolution per minute of …
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