As NAB 2024 wraps, Chicago's own Content Creator / Producer / Artist, Gary Adcock offers his commentary on the event:
Following up on Vincent Shade’s great photo coverage ...
The number of cameras, lenses and associated production and post tools released in immediate proximity to the recent 2016 NAB show has been utterly staggering.From 2008-2014, so...
With NAB coming up fast April 16-21 in Las Vegas, my mailbox has been filled with foolishness, speculation and a steady stream of pontification.Yet, there is always something th...
Once again, an emerging technology is bringing us back to awareness about the omnipresent End User Licensing Agreement (EULA) in our computing society, those annoying endless pa...
The much awaited OculusVR headset finally started shipping last week, setting the gaming and VR worlds a’fire. Yet the delivery may have signaled a far larger issue with the t...
April will be here soon and that means one thing in our industry. Vegas, baby! — the NAB Show April 16-21 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, with the exhibit floo...
Early in my technological lifetime, I attended regular meetings of a Mac user group out near O’Hare airport. As one of the geeks in the room even then, I ran across a pure pie...
Now that the Oscars are over, there’s one aspect of Sunday’s awards telecast that may have been lost on many of the viewers. One winner, cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki aka...
What should be an individual’s right to data privacy? When we live in what has become a wildly interconnected existence, what should anyone expect when it comes to the privacy...
One week in LA during awards season inevitably leads to a party and big presentations. Last week, it meant I was able to catch the launch of the new Panasonic VaricamLT at the D...
Amid the Super 50 hoopla and celebrations for Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos for their win, we all missed something so small that its’ changing the face of sports in a ...
There is nothing virtual about the 360 degree experience that was in explosive abundance at CES 2016. In my opinion, this is less about a "Virtual Reality" and more about what I...
As we close out the first month of 2016, I am reminding you technophobes to take a day and back everything up, since this when we start that tedious but necessary work on taxes,...
Shortly after Christmas, I found myself seated in a darkened theatre, awaiting the start of the movie. There was a palpable tension in the nearly full room, as if we were going ...
For this holiday I am begging people to use technology wisely. Leave your devices alone. No one needs to get an update from inside the theatre while you are watching “Th...
Tom Fletcher, HD visionary and local film industry icon, has released the 2015 Fletcher Camera Comparison Chart, an annual reminder of the continuing evolution of the cameras an...
As I wander aimlessly through the tech landscape, I realize that a lot of people, including myself, say they “hate” technology.I hate tech because of what it has done to us....
I am such a geek about hardware. Even many of my friends forget that without the accompanying software tools, it would be difficult to understand and implement the hardware need...
As someone that deals in future technologies on a daily basis, I am constantly amazed how long people cling to the outdated tools they are using.Take Firewire, once ubiquitous o...
The incredibly rapid changes in technology that we’ve been experiencing have been slowly coming along on the camera side.Digital Cinema cameras today are little more than a co...