Report on the NAB 2025

I’ve bumped in some of our associate members like TRM and a little french crowd, as well as new members like Atlas Lens Co., as well as Canon, RED, Sony and Arri to name a few.
On the camera side, the sensors are going bigger at Blackmagic (medium format) and Fuji (Eterna prototype was showed camera built around their GFX sensor).

RED released a Broadcast module for Live use as well as new Raptor and Komodo with Nikon Z mount, Sony released the new Rialto Mini (tiny remote sensor for Venice 2), Arri the Alexa 35 Base (without slomo license, etc.).

Lens wise a new 35mm from Coral Anamorphic (Second Reef), the Raptor Scope relay lens and a new Mercury 24mm from Atlas.

On the lighting side, the LED lamps get more powerful and more directional (Aputure Storm XT52, Nanlux Evoque 5000) as well as more electric Yokes movers.
A lot of Volume and virtual production solutions were out. I’ve noticed the Kino Flo Mimik in particular. A modular LED panels system fed with video stream thru DMX to be used as light (combined to your need of size, and / or mounted on stands and regular yokes…).

Small Torq Head from Nodo (known for their Nodo wheels), a tiny remote 3 axes head that can be used as a gimbal as well.
And a special affection to InviziGrain. A plugin availsable for DaVinci Resolve and FilmLight Daylight and Baselight that emulate film stock. The emulation of the different stocks looks very realistic and have been well study and documented by Brendan Bellomo, the founder. You can see the grain live thru Daylight or Resolve live feed on set and apply it on dailies and final grade. (It’s been used on Priscila by Philippe Le Sourd, AFC, ASC, recently).
Being cross platform (Resolve / Baselight) makes it very cîoinvininet when the workflow and DI evolve thru the production…

I’ve attended the generative AI and the cinematographer panel from the ASC, (thank you to Jean-Marie Dreujou, AFC, to put it on my radars).

Michael Goi, ASC, ISC, and David Stump, ASC, explained their experiences with AI tools and how it worth learning those tools. They named the actuals AI tools available how important it is to understand how prompt works to generate images close to what you have in mind. And more than anything how AI is another tool that doesn’t t create anything on its own but can be very useful for us to help in prep and scout to show ideas and share something accurate. Michael Goi in particular had great exemples of how much the idea of a shot is crucial. Way more than the tools used. If you know what you want to achieve you will figure it out anyway. AI can save time but not replace a good Idea or script.