NAB 2018: Day One Notes

DV Dude is once again attending the annual NAB Show, along with over 100,000 others. The weather is a beautiful 30 degrees and sunny, just  slightly warmer than Toronto.

Every year the crazy engineers at NHK show off their 8K products, and  this year they brought a prototype 8K camera that can shoot 240 frames  per second! It is meant for instant replay. Sensor size is 1.25" and has  33 megapixels. The 2020 Olympics in Japan will be shot in 8K, so you've  been warned.

Last year Sony wowed people in their booth with a wall of Crystal LED  panels. This year, they tweaked the Crystal LEDs, and made the wall even  larger. Impressive. Each panel is 16" x 18", and they are tiled together  to create a giant video wall.

Radiant Images in Los Angeles does these giant rigs using Sony RX0  action cams, and this one was a "handheld" rig attached to a Ready Rig  like device. The camera rig weighs about 35 lbs. It is meant for "bullet  time" shooting or "virtual dolly" digital camera moves. They were set up  in the Sony booth.