Lemac's Post SMPTE 2011 Wrap-up

Thanks to all our customers who managed to make it through Sydney's downpour to attend the show. We were overwhelmed by the numbers attending this year and we were well supported on the stand by our many overseas suppliers that came down-under to share their product knowledge with us.

For those of you who couldn't make it (and we hope you were busy working) we have included a few pics of the smorgasboard of gear that was on display in true Lemac style. We had the complete production package on show - Cameras, Lighting, Grip and Sound!

We have lots of new product in stock following the show so please take advantage and give the Sales team a call or email lemac@lemac.com.au

International Guests

As usual the Lemac stand was one of the busiest at the show as people got up close and personal with all the latest gear. Our international guests Garrett Brown, Jerry Holway and Frank Rush from Steadicam were on hand to show off their new Tango System, Jacques Delacoux from Transvideo demonstrated their Cinemonitor 3D system & Titan HD transmitter with the Genus 3D Rig as well as the new i/Data features that works with Cooke i Data lenses. Michael Schiehlen from Zeiss showed off the new 50mm Macro and 100mm Close focus additions to their Compact Prime (CP.2) range as well as the LightWeight Zoom (LWZ.2). Ed Capp from Sound Devices demonstrated the new PIX 240 recorder and Kenneth Shore from MovieTech showed the Arco Dolly and DSLR jib.

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Sony

As Sony's newest dealer, Lemac was very pleased to have a large range of exciting new Sony product on our stand this year.

We had the latest and greatest from Sony including their new PMW-F3 large-sensor camera with dual-stream 4:4:4 S-log option and the forthcoming SR-R1 solid-state recorder, which records to 1TB SR Memory card. Their beautiful new 25" BVM series grade 1 OLED monitor stunned quite a few customers and the FS100 and NEX-Cam cameras look set to be very popular.

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Dedolight

From Dedolight we had the Feloni Bi-Colour, Ledzilla and Fellini LED offerings as well as their new Panaura 7 and 1200W HMI plus a swag of 3, 4 and 5 light portable kits from their ever-popular and trustworthy range.

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Aaton

Aaton's Penelope film/digital cinema camera on show with the new digital Delta back.

Panasonic

Panasonic's hugely popular AF102 was on show kitted up to the nines with Zacuto follow-focus, EVF Snap & Chrosziel mattebox alongside the new Panasonic HPX3100 with wireless metadata features. Their HMX100 mixer and P2 support products also got a lot of attention in our workflow area connecting directly with AMA in Avid Media Composer 5.5 on a Mac.

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Epic

On the rentals front, Tim Schumann Lemac's Manager of Technology Development and Digital Cinema showed off Red's new Epic 5K camera and demonstrated the use of HDRx (High Dynamic Range) functionality and high-resolution Redcode RAW images. One of the first in the country, Epic was certainly a talking point, as were the Available Light Tests (shot by John Brawley) which were on display comparing Alexa, Red MX, Sony F3, 35mm, 16mm film and Canon 1D.

SSD Recorders

With SSD's becoming more affordable there are a pile of new onboard recorders on the market and Lemac had most of them on show. The Pix 240 ProRes & DNxHD recorder as demonstrated by Ed Capp of Sound Devices, Blackmagic's budget friendly 422 Uncompressed Hyperdeck Shuttle, Convergent Design's Gemini with 444 Uncompressed record and the ever-popular Pro Res only Ki Pro Mini from AJA.

Litepanels, OConnor & Sachtler

Barry Rubin from Litepanels showed the Sola 6 and Sola ENG lights for those wanting punchy LED output alongside their 1x1 and Micro-pro hybrid LED lights. OConnor follow focus system, tripods and heavy duty heads impressed a lot of people as did the Satchler support range.

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Audio

In the sound department, our guru Ross Boyer showed off a Magliner sound cart loaded with Zaxcom products including the Deva16 and Mix12. Their latest recorder the Nomad was also on display, taking orders as was Rode's new lavellier and pin-mic products.

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SWIT and Zacuto

This fully kitted out DSLR rig from SWIT caught many people's eye, coming in at a very affordable price as the DSLR revolution continues. As always Zacuto offered many great new options in the DSLR support category.

Astro

In the workflow area the Astro's 3D composer, spectrum analyser and waveform monitor was demonstrated along with the new Astrodesign 2K Uncompressed recorder, the HR-7502 which can also record Arri-raw. The transfer station HB-7503 was shown allowing clients to offload their mags of Arri-raw without interrupting the camera department.

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Thanks from the Lemac team for another successful SMPTE.

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