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At Cine Gear 2026, one of the more unusual cameras on the floor was neither fully digital nor fully film. The Cinelux SIXTEEN, developed by Cinelux Cinema Tools as part of its Project SIXTEEN concept, is being designed as a hybrid Super 16 camera that captures film and a digital file at the same time, giving productions a film negative alongside an immediately usable ...

At their Cine Gear booth, Johnnie sat down with Profoto’s Rod Gammons to skip the usual spec sheet and dig into a broader question: why a company with more than 60 years of history in professional photographic lighting is pushing further into cinema LED at a time when much of the industry is chasing the creator segment. The conversation centered on the ProPanel 3×2, b...

The team behind Cadrage, the director’s viewfinder app used by more than 100,000 filmmakers, has released Cadrage Studio in early access. This native iPhone, iPad, and Mac app pulls script, shot lists, camera diagrams, mood boards, and locations into one connected workspace, with automatic scene and character detection, LiDAR room scans, and a privacy-by-design approa...

Strada 2 is close to release, and at Cine Gear 2026, CEO Michael Cioni walked us through what is changing. The core idea is still the same: access your media without moving it. Instead of uploading files to the cloud, waiting for downloads, or making extra copies, Strada connects local drives so collaborators can view, access, and edit from media that stays where it i...

Some of you may know Eddie AI as an AI assistant for video editors, built to help with logging, organization, and assembly work. At Cine Gear 2026, Johnnie sat down with Eddie AI co-founder Shamir Allibhai to talk about the path behind the product, the role of AI in post production, and why Eddie is being built as a teammate rather than another editing platform.