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The F-5A is a compact and light-weight field production monitor with Full HD resolution of 1920 x 1080, nice viewing angle and max luminance of 500nit. Equipped with a new image processing engine, F-5A reproduces even better sharpness and peaking boost capability for focus pullers. It also supports various video formats via 3G-SDI and HDMI 1.3 interface. And also support professional features such as Waveform/Vectorscope, Focus Assist, 3D LUT import, Camera Logs and HDR emulation.

The AVtec LedPAD X52 is a Bi-color Honeycomb Soft LED Light. Includes ball head with 1/4” camera screw.

Curtis Judd from learnlightandsound.com recently posted a video review of the new Azden SGM-3500 and SGM-3500L shotgun microphones. The SGM-3500 and SGM-3500L are Azden’s new flagship shotgun microphones. Both models offer broadcast spec quality, with ultra-low self-noise, high sensitivity and natural frequency response. The main difference between the models is the SGM-3500 has a supercardioid pickup pattern, while the SGM-3500L is longer and has a more focused hypercardioid polar pattern. Both models also have the same all brass metal construction and come with an industry-leading 10 year warranty (requires registration). Watch the full video below.

Sound Devices MixPre-3 II, MixPre-6 II, and MixPre-10 II are successors of the award-winning MixPre Series. All models of the MixPre II Series function as recorders, mixers, and USB interfaces, and are suited for a wide range of applications, with features for podcasters, musicians, indie filmmakers, journalists, field recordists, and production sound mixers alike. The first generation MixPre-10T won the prestigious Cinema Audio Society (CAS) Award for Outstanding Product in Production.

This update adds the ability to quickly create close up edits using facial recognition to automatically reframe and zoom in on faces. DaVinci Resolve Studio 16.1 Public Beta 2 also adds support for Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera presets in the Fusion 3D camera and camera tracker tools, adds tooltips with track names on the mini track view, improves metadata accuracy when restoring or importing projects, provides more responsive scrubbing for long clips on the cut page and improves playback performance on the media, cut and edit pages.