Zylight Also for PLS, we are at Zylight with Jeff Hamel. Ed: Jeff, the old light, but you have added something clever to it? Jeff: Well this year we didn’t come up with a new light, we came up with a new lighting product and we call it our “Active Diffusion”.  This is basically LCD...

Matthews For PLS, we’re with Linda Swope from Matthews Studio Equipment. Ed: Linda – Matthews – you haven’t got your big balloon up this year, but still it’s a very nice stand, nice new products for us?  First up? Linda: This is Hot Flag.  Most people in the industry right now are...

Grass Valley Continuing the Grass Valley story we now have Ric Zattera. Ed: Ric, now this K2 Solo isn’t a new product, this has been around with Grass Valley for many years.  Why are you showing me this? Ric: The K2’s and the K2 SAN systems have been around for a while, and we’ve been...

AJA for Gencom We are at AJA, this time it’s for Gencom and we’re talking to Gerard Tassone about KUMO. Ed: Gerard, we first saw KUMO at IBC and now it’s up and running? Gerard: Right.  We’re actually feeding a lot of the stations here with the KUMO router, so we can actually do...

Cartoni For Gencom, we are with Elisabetta Cartoni and we are looking at new tripods. Elisabetta: We have a few different new tripods that we are presenting here for the first time.  Following this crazy trend of the DSLR. Ed: I’m glad you say “crazy” – not many people will admit to...

Fujinon For Gencom we are at Fujinon with Lawrie Hitchens. Ed: We’re starting, Lawrie, with some very large lenses which, gosh, they’d have to go on rails wouldn’t they? Lawrie: Absolutely, yes, on rails.  These are PL mount lenses designed for the RED camera, the Sony F35 and other PL...

Ross We are at Ross with Jeff Moore and Nicki Brierton from Gencom. Ed: Jeff, there’s a big panel here “New Ross Video Products” so you haven’t stopped?  A lot of companies seem to be saying “well, there’s not much new here this year”, but not Ross? Jeff: Ross has a lot of new...

PAG Quinto look after the PAG battery products for New Zealand and are represented at NAB by Nigel Gardiner from PAG in the UK. Ed: Nigel, I have to tell you this – you’ve actually got an Anton Bauer charger on your stand, did you realise that? Nigel: Well I did actually, it’s because of...

OmniBus Another first time interview is with OmniBus who are represented in New Zealand by Quinto, and we’re talking to Greg Hoskin.  Greg’s going to tell me where this product is positioned, so I get it right. Greg: You’re quite right.  iTX is the product and it is the next...

Quinto Communications has announced the appointment of Shane Ormsby as their National Sales Manager for New Zealand. Shane joins Quinto from Sony NZ where he was responsible for the sales of Broadcast and Production products to the New Zealand television and film industries. Prior to Sony,...