During IBC 2023, we caught up with Makoto Oishi-San from FUJINON to find out more about their recently-introduced Duvo HZK24-300mm as well as their freshly-announced Duvo HZK14-100mm PL mount zoom lenses. Both lenses are still in their development stage but aim to cover a very specific position in the marketplace. Let’s take a look!

At IBC 2023 in Amsterdam, FXLion was showing its new Portable Power Station. The MAX2400 not only boasts remarkable power capabilities but also comes packed with features that enhance its reliability. Its battery lifespan exceeds 2000 cycles, even under standard testing conditions at 25°C, ensuring a long service life.

FOR-A is bringing to market Koala, a completely innovative approach to camera tracking. The device, designed and built by FOR-A Europe and available in Europe, makes high quality live augmented reality production a practical proposition for broadcast, corporate and events applications.

Chrosziel has recently launched an impressive range of cutting-edge accessories that perfectly complement the new Sony Burano camera, catering to the needs of high-end documentary, run-and-gun, and cinema production. These state-of-the-art accessories have been carefully crafted to enhance the functionality and versatility of the Sony Burano camera, ensuring that professionals can capture their vision with precision and ease.

LYNX Technik, provider of modular signal processing interfaces, is debuting its new 4K HDMI to 12G SDI Converter with Frame Synchronizer at IBC 2023.

Dalet is showcasing its new hyper-scalable multichannel IP ingest solution Dalet InStream - a major expansion to Dalet Brio capture capabilities - and the recently-released multimedia web-based editor Dalet Cut at IBC 2023. These powerful cloud-native SaaS solutions help customers achieve the operational efficiency and cost savings they need.

VisualOn, a streaming solutions provider, has announced the launch of Optimizer, the industry’s first universal content-adaptive encoding (CAE) solution. The AI-enhanced Optimizer reduces streaming bitrates by up to 70%, improves video quality without increasing bitrates.

AJA Video Systems unveiled new 12G-SDI openGear cards that pack the functionality of its popular 12G-SDI audio and HDMI conversion solutions into an openGear rack frame-compatible form factor. Each hot-swappable card is built for use in high-density openGear 2RU frames, including AJA OG-X-FR.

Leader Electronics has announced new additions to the feature set of its award-winning LVB440 IP analyzer. Designed for use in IP environments, the LVB440 can be accessed locally or remotely by up to eight users at the same time via a standard HTML-5 web browser. Applications include monitoring and analyzing high-bitrate media traffic in broadcast studios, OB vehicles, remote production facilities, master control environments and transmission networks.

Sony announced the BURANO, a new CineAlta Digital Cinema camera that sits below the VENICE 2 and above the FX9. Its features are quite impressive and propel Sony cameras to the next technical level: It’s the first PL-mount camera with built-in IBIS, and also the first camera that combines IBIS and built-in ND. Apart from that: 8.6K resolution, X-OCN LT RAW codec and the new XAVC H codec, autofocus, up to 4K120 (in S35 crop), and it records on CF Express Type B.