New GH5 cage from Zacuto and Movcam

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Movcam announced a new GH5 cage. Here is the Press text:

Monday April 24th 2017, Las Vegas NV, USA – Professional camera accessory manufacturer Movcam is excited to announce it has extended its popular range of camera cages to support recently released cameras from Canon and Panasonic.
Movcam’s camera cage for the Panasonic Lumix GH5 offers protection for the camera body while adding multiple points for mounting both shoe-mount and threaded accessories. The main cage element is comprised of a single piece of magnesium to provide the ultimate in strength while being incredibly lightweight, and the kit also includes a top handle, riser block and baseplate with support for 15” LWS rods.
Continuing the company’s range of accessories for professional cinema cameras, Movcam has also announced fully-featured camera cage kits for both the Canon CinemaEOS C700 and the Panasonic Varicam LT.
All three products are designed with a core focus on being lightweight and compact, so that they can augment the features and capabilities of each camera without becoming an obstruction.
View these new products alongside Movcam’s wide range of professional camera accessories at the NAB Show in Las Vegas from April 24-27th in Central Hall (booth C10308).

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And Zacuto show us their new GH5 cage at NAB 2017:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC2BTYPHqlw

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Few more details about the new Panasonic Varicam Mini

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At the NAB show Panasonic teased the launch of a new compact cinema camera. Sadly it seems like it has EF mount and not MFT mount. Cinema5D writes:

I think we are very likely looking Panasonic’s answer to the FS5 and even the Blackmagic Design Ursa Mini Pro: a compact cinema camera that’s as much at home in a documentary environment as in indie productions. In other words, a beefed-up GH5 with a Super 35mm sensor and camcorder ergonomics, with the kind of data rate capabilities to affordable media that Panasonic has already promised, and which has the entry-level market already salivating.

And Newsshooter interviewed Panasonic about this “mystery” camera:

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Panasonic teases the launch of a new Compact Cinema camera

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The Panasonic NAB press conference is over and as expected there was no new MFT related announcement. The only real “mystery” is that teaser of a new Compact Cinema Camera. It’s unclear from the pictures what mount it has. But it shouldn’t be MFT because there is a Sigma ART lens on it without an adapter. Is this the long-awaited AF100 successor but without MFT mount? :(

The only thing we know about it are these few lines:

We will know more about it on June 1 at the Cine Gear Expo.

Images via Mitch Gross

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