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April 8th, 2013
Atomos Announces Samurai Blade
Melbourne, Australia – April 8th 2013: Atomos, creator of the award-winning field recorders Ninja-2 and Samurai, and the acclaimed Connect converters, announces Samurai Blade at NAB 2013, (8-11 April, Las Vegas Convention Center, booth number C8218).
“Atomos has now shipped a staggering 10,000 field recorders worldwide, and the Samurai has been a great success. For most professional environments it continues to be the go-to recorder or deck for many of our customers,” said Jeromy Young, CEO and Founder of Atomos. “We are now excited to present the next generation of Samurai – the Samurai Blade.
“Blade introduces the SuperAtom IPS screen – super sharp, super bright, super blacks – right down to the last atom. At 325 dpi and a million pixels, this screen is spectacular. With full waveform functionality, the Blade is a monitor that records and a recorder that truly monitors. It’s the perfect partner for the new wave of cinematic cameras.” added Young.
April 8th, 2013
Atomos Announces Connect AC Converters
Melbourne, Australia – April 8th 2013: Atomos, creator of award-winning field recorders Ninja-2 and Samurai, and the acclaimed Connect converters, announces two new Connect converters, Connect AC H2S and Connect AC S2H, at NAB 2013. (8-11 April, Las Vegas Convention Center, booth number C8218).
“These two new converters are the AC-powered, fixed facility counterparts of our recently introduced Connect converters,” said Jeromy Young, CEO and Founder of Atomos. “We listened to customer feedback and learned just how much people hate external power adaptors – or ‘wall-warts’ – so we decided to eliminate them. Connect-AC converters are powered by a standard figure-of-8 cable – that’s more convenient and more reliable.”
April 8th, 2013
Atomos Announces Ninja-2 Support for New DSLR Cameras
Melbourne, Australia – April 8th 2013: Atomos, creator of the award-winning field recorders Ninja-2 and Samurai, and the acclaimed Connect converters, announces Ninja-2 support for many new DSLR cameras, (8-11 April, Las Vegas Convention Center, booth number C8218).
“Our close relationships with major camera manufacturers means that at NAB this year we have over 20 different cameras on our booth working with our field recorders,” said Jeromy Young, CEO and Founder of Atomos. “Of these, over half are DSLRs with ‘clean’ HDMI video output. This time last year there was only one. This is a great illustration of just how DSLRs and affordable large sensor video cameras are changing the world of professional video.”
Atomos is incredibly proud to be showing a special, pre-release version of the Canon 5D MkIII working with the Ninja-2. “With this new firmware update from Canon, we have a clean HDMI feed, and a co-developed start/stop trigger and timecode over HDMI essential professional tools. This combination is an absolute game-changer, which we’ve responded to by changing the price of the Ninja-2 to $695, making it more affordable for the whole filmmaking community” added Young.
April 8th, 2013
Atomos Opens New US Subsidiary
Melbourne, Australia – April 8th 2013: Atomos, creator of the award-winning field recorders Ninja-2 and Samurai, and the acclaimed Connect converters, announces the opening of a new US office at NAB 2013, (8-11 April, Las Vegas Convention Center, booth number C8218).
“Our phenomenal growth over the past year means we can make this kind of investment to better support our customers in the Americas,” said Jeromy Young, CEO and Founder of Atomos. “The new office will provide technical support for the region, as well as some product development.”
February 22nd, 2013
Smart Production Tools on Show at CABSAT 2013, Dubai
Melbourne, Australia – February 22nd, 2013: Atomos, the creator of the award-winning camera-mounted recorders Ninja-2 and Samurai, and the pocket-sized Connect converters, will be at CABSAT, 12-14th March 2013 at the Dubai World Trade Centre, UAE.
“CABSAT gives us a great platform to explore new opportunities in new markets and strengthen our presence in this region”, said Stephan Kexel, Atomos Vice President Sales, EMEA. “We are also pleased to support Digital Broadcast Solutions, who have a well established reputation in the region and will be focused on growing Atomos business.”
February 6th, 2013
Smart Production Tools on Show at BVE 2013, London
Melbourne, Australia – February 6th, 2013: Atomos, the creator of the award-winning camera-mounted recorders Ninja-2 and Samurai, and the pocket-sized Connect converters, will be at BVE Expo, 26-28th February 2013 at the Excel Exhibition Centre, London.
“BVE is a very important show for us,” said Jeromy Young, CEO and Founder of Atomos, “simply because the UK is one of our strongest markets. With many of the new DSLRs supporting clean HDMI output, our hottest product right now is the Ninja-2, but we’ll be showing our products working with a wide selection of cameras, so there will something of interest on show for every kind of production, big or small.”
November 29th, 2012
Atomos Release New Ninja-2 Firmware for DNxHD Encoding
Melbourne, Australia – November 29, 2012: Atomos, creator of the award-winning field recorders Ninja-2 and Samurai, announces the worldwide release of AtomOS 4.01 firmware for Ninja-2 recorders. AtomOS 4.01 brings a whole new level of functionality to the Ninja-2 with support for Avid DNxHD, at no extra cost to customers.
“We are really starting to see the benefits of our architecture, which gives us the ability to provide such major feature enhancements to our customers at no extra charge” said Jeromy Young, CEO and Founder of Atomos. “Avid DNxHD opens up our recorders to Windows users. Support for Avid Media Composer and Adobe Premiere makes Ninja-2 the perfect recorder for Mac and PC”
November 5th, 2012
Atomos Ship Connect Converters
Atomos Connect Converters provide HDMI to HD-SDI and HD-SDI to HDMI conversion
November 1st, 2012
Atomos Appoints Stephan Kexel as Vice President Sales, EMEA
Experienced addition to Atomos’ Executive Team
October 31st, 2012
Atomos Announce AtomOS 4.0 & Avid DNxHD Support
Free DNxHD update for the highest quality, most affordable SSD/HDD recorder
September 7th, 2012
Atomos Announces Ronin & Ronin Duo at IBC 2012
Atomos creates new portable, rack-mountable Recorder/Player/Monitor
September 6th, 2012
Atomos Ninja-2 & Canon C100 Make Compact Combination
New Canon camera gives clean output to Atomos Ninja-2 for recording uncompressed HD